2025 Mobile Dance Film Festival
Official selection filmmakers

Listed in alphabetical order by first name.

  • Catch
    Music: Liza Ortiz / La Brava.
    Photo: Butch Delatina

    Audrey Baran is a Charlotte-based dance maker, performer, and educator and the Artistic / Executive Director of Baran Dance, a non-profit organization and multifaceted contemporary dance company. She holds a MFA in Dance from Hollins University and a BA in Dance and Graduate Certificate in Anti-Racism in Urban Education from UNC Charlotte. Baran was a selected choreographer for the 2022 Joffrey Ballet’s Winning Works and Charlotte Ballet’s Innovative: Direct from the LAB 2021. Baran has presented work in the Small Plates Dance Festival, Richmond Dance Festival, Sites in the City, FEMMEfest, the National Dance Educators Organization Conference, Bill Evans Somatic Dance Conference, the North Carolina Dance Festival, Tobacco Road Dance Productions, Triangle Dance Project, Ladyfest CLT, and the Charlotte Dance Festival. Baran is also a 500-hour Registered Yoga Teacher and MUNZ FLOOR® coach and thrives on sharing her research on the intersection of movement and mindfulness among diverse bodies in action.

    www.baran.dance

    @audibaran
    @barandance
    @soy_labrava

  • Stones: Whispers From the Workhouse
    Video design and editing: Erica Lessner
    Choreography/Concept: Catherine Gallant
    Camera: Catherine Gallant
    Music composed by Kyle Sanna and Dana Lyn
    Costumes: Ivana Drazic
    Performers: Kelli Chapman, Abra Cohen, Halley Gerstel, Megan Minturn, Cecly Placenti
    Site: Irish Workhouse Museum, Portumna, County Galway, Ireland

    Catherine Gallant/DANCE has a long history of bringing dance out of the theater into parks, cemeteries, city streets, basements, rooftops, beaches, and forests. Catherine is also the director of Dances by Isadora and is the US performer of Jerome Bel’s work, Isadora Duncan. She began her study of Duncan’s work in 1982 with Julia Levien and is a founding member of the duncanarchive.org. Catherine was the full-time dance educator at PS 89 in Manhattan from 1998-2023. She and her students were featured in the Emmy-nominated PBS documentary, PS DANCE! Catherine is on the faculty of the Dance Education Laboratory (DEL) and Hunter College. She is a graduate of the Boston Conservatory and holds an MFA in Dance from Temple University.

    https://www.catherinegallantdance.com/dance-for-the-camera-project-2024.html

    @catherinegallant_dance
    @ericamlh
    @danalynkylesanna
    @kelli.chapman.1122
    @abrcdbra
    @meganjminturn
    @dazimazi
    @irishworkhousecentre
    @ny.ivana

  • Comingon
    Company:
    "Seyhai Creative Picture" by Seha Mso
    "My Seni" by Seha Mso
    "Crysebella Art Studio" by Crystal Chow Xue Jing

    Crystal Chow Xue Jing, from Malaysia, specifically Tapah, Perak, is a dancer, choreographer, and educator pursuing her Master’s in Dance at the University of Malaya. She founded "Crysenbella Art Studio", offering dance classes, creative productions, and multidisciplinary services. Crystal serves as a Movement Director with "Seyhai Creative Picture" and a Producer with "My Seni" by Seha Mso. Inspired by her past experiences, she uses dance to express authentic stories, particularly focusing on mental health through dance films. Through collaborations with "Seyhai Creative Picture" and "My Seni", she has completed impactful productions, exploring movement, creativity, and storytelling.

    @seyhai_creative_picture
    @mysenidihati
    @cryse_bella
    @seha_mso
    @pici_la_qocq
    @dancedepartmet.um
    @unimalaya

  • Andromeda

  • Conform Me Not
    Music by Michael Wall
    Performed by Shannon Rodriguez
    Headshot by Dave Burgess

    Jasmine Mejia is an NYC native, choreographer, and teaching artist. She is an Assistant Professor of Dance and Co-Director of H2 Dance Company at Hope College. Jasmine is a recipient of ACDA’s ALVA Award for Choreographic Excellence (2024) and a Towsley Research Scholars Fellow (2024-2028). Her choreography has been featured off-Broadway and in festivals, residencies, and venues nationwide. Additionally, her dance films have been screened in various film festivals. Jasmine performed internationally as a company member of Von Howard Project, MADArt Creative, LMproject, and Jamal Jackson Dance Company. Jasmine received her MFA in Dance from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and a BFA in Dance and Choreography from VCU.

    jasmine-mejia.com

    @jazzydoms
    @soundformovement
    @kennydfl14

  • Those Last Few Weeks

    Megan Chu founded Inimois Dance in 2008 which has been funded by Meet the Composer, Queens Council on the Arts and Fractured Atlas. She has been an artist in residence at the Klaustierd Foundation in Iceland, Chen Dance Center and Cora Studios in New York, Le Feil Artist Residency in France and The Ucross Foundation in Wyoming. In New York, her work has been shown at Center for Performance Research, Lincoln Center, BAX, Dumbo Dance Festival, Ailey CityGroup Theater, and Triskelion Arts among others. Her work has been seen nationally in Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, Wyoming, and Illinois.

    Inimoisdance.org

  • Don’t Look Down
    Dancers: Annika Voorheis and Pimprenelle Noël
    Music: Billy Shapiro
    Camera operator: Matty Darragh-Ford

    Rosalind Joyce is a dancer, filmmaker and actress living in New York City. She started making dance films at Barnard College, and she is very excited to be having her newest piece screened at the Mobile Dance Film Festival. She would like to extend a huge thank you to her cast and crew, whose hard work and talent made this film possible.

    @rosalind.joycee
    @annikavoorheis
    @pimprenelle.noel
    @bill.shap
    @darraghford

  • Our Nation Tory
    @Samsonbethel - director @Akintunde_moses_ - Co- Director @feet2feetarts - Dance Artist
    @Borngreat_god_ - (Dance Artist
    @Blaqcuts - Cinematographer
    @Azzi_onthebeat - Sound producer

    Bethel Samson Essien from Akwa - bom state Nigeria is also known as Sammytee. He is a dance artiste, culture worker, Teacher, Filmmaker, emerging choreographer and writer also the founder and artistic director for Sammytee Creation (SC).

  • Death of Dialogue
    Janine Booysens - Choreograper
    Enricho Solomons - Dancer
    Ameer Jacobs - Dancer
    Leonie Bos

    Shirley is a Cape Town based dancer turned film maker . It is her passion to share not just an image of the movements but the feeling of the dance with an audience that has lead her to mobile film making. It allows the videographer to get close to the dancers, move with them and become a part of the choreography.


    @yellowframefilms
    @janine_booysens

  • What’s Left
    Producer/ Editor: Valkyrie Yao Choreographer/ Performer: JP Alejandro, Valkyrie Yao Cinematography: Ying Ma, Valkyrie Yao

    Valkyrie Yao is a multidisciplinary artist, scholar, and educator working at the intersection of performing and visual arts, blending movement, installation, and moving images. In 2025, their performances span Ailey Citigroup Theater, Gibney Dance, Dixon Place, The Tank NYC, Ruth Page Center for the Arts, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and other venues. Their award-winning film Insert Coin to Play screened at the 32nd Beijing International Film Festival and won the Special Jury Prize / 2nd Grand Prize at Compagnie des Oeillets MATUVU 2025 in Paris. That year, Yao also exhibited at Le Petit Versailles in New York and the XV Florence Biennale in Italy.

    https://www.valkyrieyao.com/

    https://www.instagram.com/vlkyink

* Indicates Student Film Official Selection