Los Angeles screen dance and dance filmmakers should be absolutely beside themselves with joy at the announcement that Cari Ann Shim Sham• is headed to Cannes. Her moving short film, SAND, has been invited to screen in The American Pavillion on May 18th, 10:30 AM. What does it take to get into the final 16 at the Pavilion? Clearly, a whole lot of shim sham verve and class.
Kyle Ruddick & Cari Ann Shim Sham* at The Idea Project Dinner Series, AD, speaking about Ruddick's project, One Day On Earth.
The American Pavilion hosts young and emerging filmmakers, giving them an opportunity to meet industry insiders while having their work showcased. The 16 films are gleaned from a nationwide call to ALL film schools. It is out of this rather competitive and large pool that SAND emerged as a singular work. In addition to being hosted at the American Pavilion, SAND will screen in the out-of-competition segment of Court Métrage. Directed by Cari Ann Shim Sham* and co-produced with Kyle Ruddick, SAND is at once a dance film and an archival document.
<p>Sand Trailer from Cari Ann Shim Sham* on Vimeo.</p>
LA was quite fortunate to see SAND first, at the 2010 installment of DanceCamera West, where many thought it deserved top prize. Your writer here, though, was among a group of 50 who saw it at UCLA, the crowning jewel in an exquisite MFA reel by Ms. Shim Sham. After the re-edit of Bleu into the even more incredible Are You For Real, the audience could not imagine anything better. After the first 60 seconds of SAND, we were quite clear that a) Shim Sham is an incredible story teller; b) this was no simple documentary, no class screen dance post modern pastiche, clearly not an elegiac biopic. No, SAND is something rare, incredible, precious: it is a gift to all involved, given by all involved, including the audience.
If you are now slapping yourself for having missed SAND last year, you can at least get to meet Ms. Shim Sham* herself at DanceCamera West in 2011. She is also on the screening committee for the festival and serves as the curator of short films at the Topanga Film Festival (a very sweet festival if you have never been. Still looking for other ways to connect with the Cari Ann Shim Sham* magic? Sign up at One Day on Earth and she is likely to see your footage. She serves as the educational tool kits core writer and facilitator for the project and constantly digs through the ever-expanding group-sourced archive looking for wonderful surprises to share with the One Day On Earth Community.
So join in a toast and click those heels for Cari Ann Shim Sham*!
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