LA Dance Film Festival
Toe the Line is an Official Selection of the LA Dance Film Festival. The festival will be held Feb. 8, 2020, at the Downtown Independent Theater in Los Angeles.
Founded in 2016 to support more opportunities for dance filmmakers and to increase visibility of dance film as an art form, the festival recognizes films that make dance central to their narrative. According to the sponsors:
Dance film is a genre of cinematic storytelling created through movement. In contrast to traditional dialogue-driven films, dance films offer new ways to connect with characters and ideas that are beyond words. While dance film has been produced for decades, we found it was surprisingly underrepresented in Los Angeles.
It’s a one-day festival, so they only have time to air finalist entries in full. But the festival organizers have asked us, as an Honorable Mention selection, for a copy of our Toe the Line Trailer to air between the finalist selections.
We’re extremely excited about our selection, because the festival audience draws professionals who are passionate not just about dance, but about arts and dance education. It’s a great audience for Toe the Line: Arts Education for Life, a documentary that advocates for more arts education in schools.
Impact Docs Awards
We’re delighted to announce that Toe the Line has won an Award of Merit in the 2020 Impact Docs Awards competition.
Sponsored by Global Film Awards Competitions, the Impact Docs Awards is a competition just for documentary filmmakers:
We were compelled to dedicate a competition solely to documentaries and to the filmmakers who work so hard to create them. And, of course, to help support the important causes that they have worked so hard to illuminate.
Global Film Awards
Toe the Line advocates for public-school arts education. In most public schools, the arts have been pushed aside and trivialized. Toe the Line focuses on a zero-budget, public-school arts program that works. It documents the many ways by which the Burncoat Arts Magnet School dance program increases students’ passion for learning and leads them to successful lives as young adults.
