Idaho Screendance

— come to the movies

the schedule

Each screening runs sixty to ninety minutes long.

At the end of the screening session, the audience votes on the top film from that screening session. There is a Q&A with the filmmakers & audience at the end of each screening while the festival directors tally audience choice votes. After the Q&A, adjudicated & audience choice awards are announced for the films screened in that session.

Stay and watch all films.

THURSDAY - Festival Day 1 Screenings:

Mountain Standard-Time. Each screening will showcase the top films, give awards, & Q&A.

2:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m. - Documentary Screening 1:

(Screening, Audience Choice Award, Q&A)

3:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m. - 30-Minute Mingle & Network

4:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. - Screendance Workshop

15-Minute Intermission & Mingle

6:15 p.m.-7:30 p.m. - Documentary Screening 2:

(Screening, Audience Choice Award, Q&A)

15-Minute Intermission & Mingle

7:45 p.m.-8:45 p.m. - Shorts Screening 1:

(Screening, Audience Choice Award, Q&A)

8:45 p.m.-9:45 p.m. - Shorts Screening 2:

(Screening, Audience Choice Award, Q&A)

9:45 p.m.-10:00 p.m. - Mingle & Network

10:00 p.m.-11:00 p.m. - Shorts Screening 3:

(Screening, Audience Choice Award, Certificate Awards, Q&A)

All Sales Final. No refunds. Times Subject to Change.

FRIDAY - Festival Day 2 Screenings:

Mountain Standard-Time. Each screening will showcase the top films, give awards, & Q&A.

2:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m. - Filmmaker Group Discussion

15-Minute Intermission & Mingle

3:45 p.m.-4:45 p.m. - Shorts Screening 4:

(Screening, Audience Choice Award, Certificate Awards, Q&A)

15-Minute Intermission & Mingle

5:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. - Shorts Screening 5:

(Screening, Audience Choice Award, Certificate Awards, Q&A)

15-Minute Intermission & Mingle

6:15 p.m.-6:30 p.m. - Festival Directors Introductions & Welcome

6:30 p.m.-7:00 p.m. - Keynote Speaker

15-Minute Intermission & Mingle

7:15 p.m.-8:45 p.m. - Shorts Screening 6:

(Screening, Audience Choice Award, Q&A)

8:45 p.m.-9:45 p.m. - Top Professional Screendance Awards

Best Documentary

Certificate Awards

Best Screendance Short

Best Idaho Screendance, the "Syringa" Award

9:45 p.m.-10:45 p.m. - Mingle and Network

All Sales Final. No refunds. Times Subject to Change.

curate

— submissions

official

selection

Official Selections are the adjudicated top-scoring films for each category of film and age group. Official Selections are invited to be screened at the festival. The festival directors curate the Official Selections into sixty to ninety-minute screening sessions.

— festival

WHAT WE OFFER

keynote

keynote

Idaho Screendance Festival's 2021 Keynote Presenter Jen Ray.

A life-long learner, Jen Ray works creatively through purposeful action to be an agent for positive evolution. For over a decade, these efforts have manifested in roles such as teacher, creator, and collaborator on various initiatives that elevate humans and the ways we connect through dance, culture, and technology.

Her company Dancinema started as a passion project while she was an undergraduate film student at the University of British Columbia Vancouver. Ten years later, Jen Ray is humbled and marveled at the engagement of the screendance community and the evolution of Dancinema’s function in that network. Dancinema’s early years involved creating low-budget experimental films, screening at festivals (Los Angeles Dance Film Festival & ADF’s Movies by Movers, to name a few), offering workshops to all ages, featured in Dance Teacher Magazine, and a residency at Cucalorus Festival. Collaborations on performances & exhibitions such as those with Standard Vision, The JaM Project (Dancerpalooza's 25Live! & The Kennedy Centre) & The Cinematheque (Vancouver, BC) were exciting opportunities to take Dancinema out of the conventional screen space and reach more people. Cascadia Dance & Cinema Festival (est. 2015, Vancouver, BC) and Capitol Dance & Cinema Festival (est. 2016, Washington, DC) were each the first screendance festivals in their cities, so introducing audiences to the hybrid medium and building from scratch is in Dancinema’s DNA.

Jen Ray is passionate about the educational aspects of screendance and connecting with others as we interpret these dynamic works. From the curated archive of Dancinema’s festival selections available on-demand to speaking at events (Danse Bloom, Utah Dance Film Festival, Idaho Screendance Festival, and Shine Dance Festival), thoughtful exploration and growth is at the center. In 2020, Jen Ray was thrilled to join forces with Hannah Weber and Clare Schweitzer, two fellow screendance colleagues/nerds, to offer Frameform, “a podcast on movies, moving, and everything in between.” Jen Ray is thrilled to be our keynote speaker for the Idaho Screendance Festival 2021, and thanks to Rachel Swenson and all of the festival team and partners for making it possible.

workshop

Dr. Rulon Wood lead a two-hour screendance workshop for dance filmmakers in 2019 and 2021. This experiential workshop includes lectures, discussions, collaborative learning, creative writing, brainstorming, watching films, and sharing short compositions.