X-Dance Announces Films For the 2008 Festival
12.17.07 //
X-DANCE ANNOUNCES FILMS FOR THE 2008 FESTIVAL
This has been the most incredible year for film entries in the past eight years of X-Dance. The level of filmmaking has reached new heights. Hundreds of films have been submitted from all over the world. Almost half of the films submitted were from outside the U.SA. X-Dance is truly the premier international event for Action Sports Filmmaking.
The difficult part of this process is determining which films will make the festival. The competition was extremely high this year. If your project did not make the final list, that does not mean that your project was not a good film. We judge all films equally on the basis of filmmaking merit and not sport genre, sponsors or budget. The five categories we judge are Cinematography, Editing, Story, Music, and Action. Each of the five merits are given equal value. The films that ultimately make it into the festival score well in most, if not all, of the filmmaking categories, making them a good blend of story and action. Films that were all action with no story or interaction with the athletes plot-wise fared the same as films that were all talk and no action.
Everyone that submitted a film can (and should) be part of the festival. The X-Dance Film Festival was created as a forum for everyone in the Action Sports Filmmaking Industry. We will be conducting the X-Dance Filmmakers Institute with seminars, workshops, and panels. The subjects will deal with real issues facing the Action Sports filmmakers, like emerging Internet demands in regard to content providing, music licensing, digital and hard copy distribution, and legal issues that arise from everything mentioned above. We will have the top people in the industry from each category there to raise the level of awareness and help you.
Our final awards ceremony is notorious for being the best party during the Sundance Film Festival. We will give all filmmakers that submitted films tickets to all of our events.
As filmmakers, you should all immerse yourself in the Sundance Film Festival and its activities as well. We will post a listing of Sundance Film Festival activities so that you can participate. Use the Sundance Festival to inspire your career.
This year we have expanded the festival to Salt Lake City. We have grown to the point where we needed bigger and better venues. Salt Lake City will also put us more in touch with our core crowd and make it easier for everyone to participate. The Sundance Film Festival is moving a lot of its energy to SLC for the same reasons we are. The O.R. (Outdoor Retailer) convention is also in town at the same time. Our new venue is right in the middle of both events, by no accident. This year promises to be bigger and better than ever.
Thank you all for your incredible film submissions and the passion that went into making them! We look forward to celebrating your creativity and the Actions Sports culture with you in the New Year!
Best,
Brian Wimmer
X-Dance Film Festival
Director / Founder
BELOW ARE THE ACCEPTED FILMS FOR 2008
FEATURE FILM TITLE
(in alphabetical order)
199 Lives
20 Seconds of Joy
Against the Grain
Apples & Oranges
Believe
Bra Boys
Deep Winter
Down The Barrel
Driven
Dying for Everest
Enjoy
Facing Obsession
In Short
It's Fantastic!
Journey to the Center
King Lines
Let's Do This!
Lines
Lost and Found
Mixed Tape
My Eyes Won't Dry
New Emissions of Light and Sound
Night Of World Records
NWD 8 Smack Down
Optimistic?
Push Process
Seven Sunny Days
Sevenvision
Sliding Liberia
Source
The Dawn of the Stone-Age
The Man Who Souled The World
The Windsurfing Movie
Tomorrow Today
Tony Hawks Secret Skate Tour
Transgression
Under the Sun
Why
SHORT FILM TITLE
Another LA Day (Short)
Autumn Dream (Short)
Find My Way (Short)
Fish Bowl (Short)
Skater Made (Short)
Tide (Short)