DCW FILM FESTIVAL 2025 Program Selection and Schedule Announcement coming soon!

DCW Celebrates its 25th Anniversary!

DCW Film Festival

January 22-25, 2025

Barnsdall Gallery Theater

Featuring a Tribute and Retrospective with Honoree David Roussève, a World-Premiere from Benjamin Millepied, LA POPS UP, new DCW Visibility Productions, and 40 films* submitted from around the world!

*All selected films are L.A. PREMIERES*

DCW is curated by DCW’s Artist/Executive Director, co Artistic Director Cati Jean, and a diverse screening committee of 100 members of LA's performance and filmmaking community. DCW pays screening fees to selected filmmakers, and works toward annual awards, commissioning and screening opportunities, including US streaming, broadcast and touring contracts.

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Recent Events:

Visibility: Self Reflections - April 2024

Dance Camera West presented Visibility Self Reflections, a procession of dancers, a community choir, and a mobile film screen parading through the streets to celebrate the world premiere of new films made with Joy Isabella Brown, Irishia Hubbard, Jon Leanos, Marlene Millar, Lane Michael Stanley, Madison Olandt, Vanessa Sanchez, and Sandy Silva. 

DCW partnered with the migration dance film project and Brockus Dance Company to create this spectacular event as part of the KDA Creative Corps funded Visibility: Self Reflections dance film production grant.

For information on the films created go to: https://www.dancecamerawest.org/kdacc-film-production-fund

SCROLL VIDEO: Dance of the Neurons, Jody Oberfelder/ Eric Siegel

DCW 2024

Dance Camera West 2024, in January (1/25-1/28). The festival took place at Barnsdall Art Park’s historic Gallery Theatre atop the beautiful hilltop campus in Los Angeles. An international group of attendees were treated to various screenings, receptions, an insightful workshop, and a tour of the historic Frank Lloyd Wright Hollyhock House.

Over the course of the festival’s four days, DCW 2024 showcased a curated selection of 40 films from 20 countries, each making its World, U.S., or Los Angeles premiere. Carefully chosen from 320 submissions, these films represented the pinnacle of dance film creativity.

Interspersed between the festival’s dynamic film programming, DCW 2024 included receptions hosted by Instituto Cervantes of Los Angeles and Québec Government Office in Los Angeles; a Saturday morning workshop led by world renowned choreographer—and this year’s guest of honor—Javier de Frutos; and DCW’s signature VISIBILITY program, which saw artist, educator, and scholar, Cara Hagan, lead the artist discussion. Dance Camera West concluded the festival with a joyous screening of Jonathan Demme’s 1983 Talking Heads’ concert film, Stop Making Sense. The audience did in fact dance in the aisles just as DCW’s Co-founder and Festival Director Kelly Hargraves had encouraged.

The full list of films that screened at Dance Camera West 2024 is available here: https://dcw2024.eventive.org/films.