Minnesota Dance Film Festival

Cinema Revolution Society is currently fundraising for the Minnesota Dance Film Festival and needs your support to secure this annual festival in the Minnesota arts community. Your gift is fully tax-deductible through our fiscal sponsor IFP Media Arts, a 501(c)3 non–profit arts organization.

The Minnesota Dance Film Festival promotes the internationally emerging art form, “screendance.” Your contribution will contribute to this exciting new art form and make our festival programs possible for artists and audiences in our community. Please consider adding Cinema Revolution Society’s Minnesota Dance Film Festival to your charitable plans for 2010.

The Minnesota Dance Film Festival Provides:

• film premieres of local artists work in a festival format
• open forums and discussions on dance film theory and history
• curated documentary screenings of internationally recognized artists
• audience interaction with local artists and their work through pre-screening discussions
• a space and opportunity to build community with the celebration of dance and filmmaking
• opportunities and inspiration for local artists to create and exhibit new work

Your contribution of any amount will support:

• $2,500 Theater rental for festival screenings
• $1000 Distribution rights for one dance film
• $500 Printing for festival promotion
• $250 Equipment Rental
• $125 Printed programs
• $75 DVD duplication for one program

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL

Minnesota Dance Film Festival is an annual event that celebrates and promotes the genre of dance film. Dance on screen, or “screendance,” is a unique cinematic experience that focuses on the intersection of cinematography and choreography. Cinema Revolution Society is one of the handful of organizations in the United States that present dance-inspired cinema and is dedicated to fostering and promoting the vibrant art of dance film. CRS has presented three successful annual dance for the camera film festivals showcasing the talents of over 100 local artists presenting a range of performance aesthetics from contemporary to classical and alternative dance films. The public forum offered by the Minnesota Dance Film Festival interconnects diverse populations and brings audiences in through the unique cinematic experience of dance film. This years MNDFF partners with notable venues and organizations: The Southern Theater, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and the Germanic-American Institute.

ABOUT CINEMA REVOLUTION SOCIETY

Cinema Revolution Society, founded and lead by executive director John Koch, is an organization that is committed to invigorating film culture in Minnesota through a variety of programming of local, domestic and international films. CRS connects local artists and organizations through its presenting and commissioning programs and offers open forums and discussions on film theory and history.