We are excited to announce that we received a record setting number of submissions for this festival.

DCW 2020 will screen 50 films from 325 Submissions from over 40 countries. It was inspiring to watch all 325 films and sadly not be able to screen them all. However, the level of filmmaking we are able to screen is superb.

Join us for four days of screenings featuring Los Angeles, U.S., North American and World premieres January 9-12 at REDCAT. Program and tickets will be on sale on REDCAT.org in mid December.

Our Opening Night program January 9, 2020 will feature two special guests, Edouard Lock, founder of the legendary Canadian dance company La La La Human Steps, as well as renowned screen dance artist Katrina McPherson, from Edinburgh Scotland.

Katrina McPherson’s 30-year practice is informed by her background in dance and video art, as well as her wide experience as a director of arts programmes for television. Her collaborative screen dance works include the recent Paysages Mixtes|Mixed Landscapes (2019), we record ourselves (2016), The Time It Takes (2012), and she directed ground breaking dance films such as Moment (1999) and Pace (1995). Katrina is an Associate Artist at Dance Base in Edinburgh and a Dance North Artist. Katrina is the sole author of Making Video Dance – a step-by-step guide to creating dance for the screen, published by Routledge in 2006, with a new edition released in 2018. She is currently Associate Professor of Screendance at the University of Utah, USA.