As part of its mission, DFA offers to its members the opportunity to apply for post-production funding once a year. Only films that have completed shooting and are in production will be considered. Stay tuned for the 2012 application!
2011 POST PRODUCTION AWARDS
2011 Post Production Funding Panel:
Chris Henderson- Founder/Director of Moviehouse; Program Manager of Arts@Renaissance; DFA Board Member
Chisa Hidaka- Filmmaker; Director of Dolphin Dance Projects
Ellen Bar- Director of Media Projects at New York City Ballet; Co-Creator/Executive Producer of NY Export: Opus Jazz
2011 Post Production Recipients:
BOB CURTIS: DANCING ALL COLORS
Director: Christoph Dostal, LOS ANGELOS, CA
Documentary: feature-length
Bob Curtis, an African-American dancer, choreographer and painter, was born in Mississippi in 1925 and died in Vienna, Austria in 2009. His father was born in 1858 in Mississippi as a slave. In his childhood, Bob was called `High Yellow´since he was half black and half white and didn’t belong to either group. As the youngest of 18 children of a very poor family he stepped out of the box and had a world class career. In his life long journey of self discovery he broke down racial barriers through the universal language of dance capturing the human spirit at its finest.
FOREIGN PUZZLE
Director: Chithra Jeyaram, AUSTIN, TX
Documentary: feature-length
Confronted with her mortality, angered and frustrated over her inability to handle the disintegration of her body, Sharon Marroquin, a modern dancer begins to consciously deal with it through art. This creative process allows Sharon to escape to another realm that is not confined by physical limitations, disease, child-rearing, teaching and running a home. But the escape is temporary, her 6 year old son Dali, who is aware that his mom is ill but oblivious to the gravity of the situation, needs her unconditionally. For 18 months, FOREIGN PUZZLE documents Sharon leading two lives – one as a choreographer and the other as a single mother with breast cancer, her relationship with her son and the transcending power of dance.
Photo Credit Sanghoon Lee
Director: Daniele Wilmouth, CHICAGO, IL
Short
A film following the mayhem created by a ragtag musical militia, who embark on an impotent invasion through a parallel universe where their exuberant music is out of sync and unheard. The two worlds are finally unified, when the band masters the tempo and patience of empathy.
PAST AWARDS
2010 Post Production Funding Panel:
Amy Greenfield, Filmmaker
Robert Johnson, Writer
Elena Martinez, Producer
2010 Post Production Recipients:
WHERE GOD SLEEPS
Kathy Craven: Director, Documentary: 60 m
Orlando, Florida
Sidiki Conde lost the use of his legs at age 14. Soon after, he literally pulled his body into the bush of his remote West African village. He watched ducks moving back and forth on their webbed feet and slowly he learned to pull his body upright. He taught himself to dance on his hands until he was dancing with steps true to traditional tribal rhythms.
FIRST DANCE
Chisa Hidaka: director; Experimental short, 4m.
New York, New York
An underwater dance between a human and wild Pacific Spinner Dolphins, First Dance by the Dolphin Dance Project, brings audiences interested in dolphins and the ocean to contemporary dance, and dance audiences to marine biology.
THE LIFE OF MARTHA HILL
Greg Vander Veer: Director; Documentary, feature-length.
A project of the Martha Hill Foundation, New York, New York
Martha Hill had a life-long dedication to revolutionizing dance education as she struggled to solidify modern dance as a legitimate art form. The filmmakers promise to complete an elegant and provocative portrait of the career and vision that played an immense and integral role in the inception and development of the American modern dance movement.
FEELINGS ARE FACTS: THE LIFE OF YVONNE RAINER
Director: Jack Walsh; Documentary, feature-length.
San Francisco, California
Yvonne Rainer has been a maverick in the fields of dance and film for more than four decades. Over the course of her career, she revolutionized modern dance, created what came to be known as performance art, and reintroduced narrative storytelling into experimental filmmaking. She did this at a time when the challenges faced by women trying to establish careers in the art world were formidable.
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