Third Coast Dance Film Festival

The Third Coast Dance Film Festival celebrates the intersection of contemporary dance and the moving image with a screening series of short dance films. Now in its fifteenth year, the Third Coast Dance Film Festival 2025 lineup will include domestic and international films. Join festival founder Rosie Trump for an evening celebrating dance and the moving image.

Film Line Up:

AWAKENING (Taiwan)          

Director: Sze-Ting Huang

Choreographer: Chang-Fu Liao

*Best of Festival Award Winner

body landscapes (USA)          

Director & Choreographer: cari ann shim sham*     

Blue Funk (South Africa)

Director & Choreographer: Louise Coetzer    

*Best of Festival Award Winner

Derby (Canada)          

Director: Pierre-Alexandre Girard     

Choreographer: Helder Seabra

Fire in the Belly (USA)           

Director & Choreographer: Amanda Ling

Choreographers: Amanda Ling

Heartland (USA)        

Directors: Stéphane Glynn and Molly Heller 

Choreographer: Molly Heller

Inter Library Loan (USA)        

Director: Marta Renzi

Chorographers: Marta Renzi with dancers

*Best of Festival Award Winner

Notebook (3 experiments) (USA)      

Director: Mitchell Rose          

to be near you. (USA)

Directors: Ali Kenner Brodsky & Jarret Blinkhorn      

Choreographer: Ali Kenner Brodsky

(un) G A T H E R E D (USA)    

Director: Kayla “mokka” Tomooka    

Choreographers: mokka in collaboration with dancers

*Spirit of the Festival Award Winner

woman/water (USA)

Director & Choreographer: Ellen Duffy