FAD Festival: Film-Art-Dance on Screen showcases the best of international dance and movement-based films in public screenings and as part of FAD Collections, specially curated programs for K-12 schools. FAD Festival is a collaborative project between Code f.a.d. Company and North Carolina State University.
University students and film professionals serve together as curators and lesson plan writers to craft unique film collections for screenings in a variety of K-12 classroom settings. Anticipated programs include general film packages for grades K-2 and 3-5, and more tailored packages for social studies and arts classrooms for grades 6-8 and 9-12. Each package of curated films will be sent to the school along with a lesson plan and the festival directors will contact each teacher to be sure they understand how to best incorporate the screening into their classrooms. Film packages are created to meet national educational standards and student learning objectives.
The film collections will be marketed to K-12 schools across the United States and Canada. The film programs are provided free of charge to the schools; the only requirement is for each teacher to fill out a simple feedback form following the screening in their classroom. These film programs are part of an ongoing research and community engagement project to raise awareness of dance film as an art genre and to showcase its ability to be used for educational purposes.
New films for these touring programs will be accepted each year; however, films may continue to tour to schools for more than one year.
Awards will be given for Curators' Choice for Best Short, Curators' Choice for Best Feature, Best Student Short, Best Student Feature, Audience's Choice for Best Film, and other category awards as deemed applicable. (Awards in the 2016 festival included Best Choreography, Best Direction, Best Sound Score, and other more unique categories.) All films will receive custom FAD laurels and will be publicized through our social media and online outlets (including links to your own film or director pages).
In addition to these traditional awards, all filmmakers will receive feedback from our K-12 audiences/teachers (as available). These film programs are part of an ongoing research and community engagement project to raise awareness of dance film as an art genre and to showcase its ability to be used for educational purposes.