Open Call Feature-length & Shorts Film Selections
Join Miami Light Project at Perez Art Museum Miami for our Open Call Official Selections featuring two programs of short films selected by the ScreenDance Miami Festival director and panelists.
Screenings included with Museum Admission.
Program 1 • 12:00 pm
Muses – Simon Vermeulen (2025, 12 min, US Premiere)
SANKALPA – Tarik Hakim Morgan & Ruslan Aksenov (2022, 8 min, World Premiere)
Sankalpa follows a dancer’s journey through loss, darkness, and rebirth. After a tragic accident takes his mother and cripples his path, he confronts despair and silence. Through movement, he reclaims identity, transforms grief into art, and rises as a choreographer, passing on his craft with resilience and grace.
Lives Beyond Motion – Bill T. Jones, Lar Lubovitch, Alvin Ailey, David Rousseve, Stephen Petronio, Douglas Dunn, Sean Curren, Donald Byrd, Lawrence Goldhuber, Doug Varone, Jeff Slayton, Viola Farber, Stephanie Skura, May O’Donnell, Della Davidson, Charlie Moulton, Trisha Brown & Keith Glassman (2024, 71 min, FL Premiere)
> Total length: 90 min
Program 2 • 3:00 pm
On my way to you – Andreia Rodrigues, Miroslav Kochánek, Astrid De Haes, Brecht Van Vliet, Jonathan Van Hemelrijck (2025, 8 min, US Premiere)
Two individuals explore closeness through movement, and from this endeavor emerges a game that involves risk and physical effort, but the pursuit of a shared rhythm motivates them to persevere.
Crossing – Osmani Tellez (2025, 3 min, World Premiere)
“Crossing” is a wordless passage through wonder, fear, and transformation, a meditation on stepping beyond the known into the unseen. Through movement and silence, it traces the fragile threshold between dream and waking, shadow and light, innocence and discovery. The journey lingers in crossing itself, the trembling beauty of becoming.
Chair Deconstruction – Nicole Klaymoon / Embodiment Project & Amanda Beane (2024, 9 min, FL Premiere)
Chair Deconstruction is a two-part dance piece exploring the drama and comedy of communal healing, pairs filmmaker Amanda Beane with the San Francisco Bay Area street dance ensemble Embodiment Project.
DYAD – Allysen Hooks & Katherine Helen Fisher (2024, 6 min, World Premiere)
La Superstición del Huevo – Cecilia Benitez & Darmyn Calderon (2025, 12 min, FL Premiere)
Through an egg cleansing ritual, a mother’s love and superstition intertwine. As she rubs an egg across her child’s body, she opens a passage to the spirit world, where the egg’s essence appears as a dancer—her presence revealed only to one.
IMAMOU: Hotô to Shore… Agbé | Agwe – Portsha Terae Jefferson (2021, 9 min, FL Premiere)
Honoring water deities as they manifest in Haiti and Benin. Through chants, sacred drumming, and powerful choreography, the film illuminates the shared spiritual legacies of Vodou and West African traditions, revealing how the waters that separate these lands also serve as a bridge uniting their histories, cultures, and beliefs.
Yo Quiero Bailar (I Want to Dance) – Ana Sanchez Colberg (2024, 8 min, FL Premiere)
Hidden – Yvonne Meier (2025, 10 min, World Premiere)
>>> Total length: 64 min
We are accessible and assistive listening devices are available. To request materials in accessible format and accommodation to attend an event, please contact Eventz Paul at 305.576.4350 or email us, at least five days in advance to initiate your request.
Eventz Paul is currently the Technical Director and Productions Manager at Miami Light Project. He has been a part of this organization since 2011. He participated in Miami Light Project’s first class of the Technical Fellowship Program held at The Light Box. He joined this program hoping to improve his existing theater skills. He received training from experts in the industry that mentored and further his theater technical skills. Now, he has successfully used his professional knowledge and has had the opportunity to work with various arts organizations and venues throughout Miami including Miami Theater Center, National Young Arts Foundation, the Colony Theatre and many more. He has become an instructor and conducts audiovisual classes to incoming technical fellows.
Beth Boone has been the Artistic & Executive Director of Miami Light Project since 1998, developing critically acclaimed artistic programs that have asserted the organization as one of the leading cultural institutions in South Florida. These programs include: the establishment of Here & Now, South Florida’s most respected commission and presenting program for community-based artists; premiere presentations of internationally acclaimed; pioneering historic international cultural exchange with Cuba; and the creation of The Light Box at Goldman Warehouse, a multi-use performance and visual art space in Miami’s Wynwood Arts District. She previously served as Associate Director of Development for Florida Grand Opera, Deputy Director for the Department of Cultural Affairs at Miami Dade Community College, Wolfson Campus, co-founded an Off Broadway theater company (New York Rep), and served for six years as a Program Associate in the Arts & Culture Program of the AT&T Foundation. She received a B.A. in Fine Arts from the College of Charleston in South Carolina, and a MFA in Theater Arts from Brandeis University in Boston, MA.