The Greater the Weight had its world premiere at the Moves08 experimental short film and new media festival in Manchester, U.K on April 22, 2008 The Greater the Weight is nominated for Best Performing Arts & Entertainment at the Yorkton Short Film & Video Festival 2008 |
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a soft place to fall and The Hunt played the 4th International Dance Film Festival in Yokohama), Japan, February 2008
Butte has been selected for Miradas Cruzadas, a tour of Latin American countries promoting and giving visibility to indigenous cultures, linking Latin American and Canadian indigenous visions. Supported by UNESCO.
Butte was featured in the High Performance Rodeo Festival, Calgary, in January 2008
Rendez-vous du cinéma québecois featured a soft place to fall and Butte, February 2008
Butte played the Live Art Productions’ Dance on Screen festival, in Halifax, March 2008
Watch for Byron Chief-Moon: Grey Horse Rider on Bravo! and APTN. Our other documentaries Moments in Motion, and Fresh Voices: Raising the Bar are also playing on Bravo!
The Bravo!FACT shorts, The Hunt, a soft place to fall, Butte, and the greater the weight, are all currently playing on Bravo!
Upcoming festival dates:
Byron Chief-Moon: Grey Horse Rider – Frameline San Francisco International LGBT Festival, Roxie Film Centre, June 23, 2008
The Greater the Weight, Yorkton Short Film & Video Festival, May 22-25, Yorkton, Saskatchewan
Actor, dancer, and choreographer, Byron Chief-Moon is founder of the Coyote Arts Percussive Performance Association, and member of the Blackfoot Confederacy, member of the Blood Band. Through his art and his life, Chief-Moon's story is one of cultural survival. Themes of his dance creations begin with his people's traditional stories, his attachment to the land and his community, as well as the inner conflict he faces in existing within the Aboriginal culture and the wider community. The documentary also explores his identity as a First Nations two-spirited gay man and a father of three adopted children. His art and his life cross boundaries. Challenging the cultural construct is never easy; but Chief-Moon does.
In addition to this production, Marlene Millar and Philip Szporer directed and produced Butte, a short dance film featuring Byron Chief-Moon and filmed on his ancestral land, the Blood reserve in Southern Alberta. Butte is a Bravo!FACT production currently airing on the Bravo! arts channel, and will also have its festival premiere at FIFA in March 2007.
Marlene Millar is a Montreal filmmaker and editor with a background in dance and design. Over the last several years she has produced, directed and edited documentary and experimental work in the U.S. and Canada. A freelance journalist, broadcaster, filmmaker and international lecturer based in Montreal, Philip Szporer has also worked as a dance critic for more than twenty years. Over the last few years he has worked on a number of dance/media projects. In 1996 Marlene and Philip embarked on the first sketch of what was later to become the video series Moments in Motion/Au fil du mouvement. Mouvement Perpétuel was formed in 2001, a company committed to promoting the arts and engaging new audiences through their blend of documentary and art filmmaking, with a focus on contemporary dance, in such productions as Raising the Bar: The Fresh Voices Project, The Hunt and a soft place to fall. The latter film made its debut in the Moving Pictures Festival in Toronto in 2006, and will also be seen during FIFA this March.
Moments in Motion/Au fil du mouvement has been critically acclaimed since its release in 2004, and has been presented at the Festival international des films sur l'art and other festivals around the world. Seven Canadian choreographers of a new generation are featured. By infiltrating their communities, studios and homes, the camera seizes the essence of their day-to-day worlds. The Hunt (2005), choreographed by Sharon Moore, wherein the intensity of an internal struggle manifests itself externally, as revealed through an intimate, fragmented view of dancer Peter Trosztmer, has won raves internationally. Notably it won a Jury Prize nomination in January 2006 at the celebrated Dance for Camera Festival in New York.
With Byron Chief-Moon: Grey Horse Rider filmmakers Marlene Millar and Philip Szporer bring to the screen the unique life and times of this exceptional artist. A memorable meeting you won't want to miss!
Byron Chief-Moon: Grey Horse Rider (2007) is a 48-minute documentary, produced in collaboration with the Canadian Television Fund, SODEC, Bravo! and APTN.
Films presented during FIFA:
Butte
Saturday March 10, Bibliothèque Nationale, 2:30 p.m.
Saturday March 17, Goethe-Institut, 7:00 p.m.
a soft place to fall
Sunday March 11, Cinémathèque québécoise, 7:00 p.m.
(Main Film programme)
Byron Chief-Moon: Grey Horse Rider
Friday March 16, ONF, 7:00 p.m.