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SanDance!
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Filmmaker Name:
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Richard Wicksteed, Edwin Angless
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Film Length:
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60 min
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Film Year:
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2020
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Duration:
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46-75 min
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Decade:
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2020s
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Language:
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in Nharo, Buga-Kwhe, ||Ani-khwe, Ju|’hoansi, Ts'ix
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Subtitle Language:
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with English Subtitles
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Color:
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color
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Region:
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Africa
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Subject:
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Music, Dance & Theater
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Set in the transcendent dance culture of Africa’s San First Peoples, SanDance! celebrates humanity’s original essence of dance.
This enchanting film follows San dancers from rehearsals in remote villages in Namibia, South Africa and Botswana to their electrifying performances at the Kuru San Dance Festival in Botswana. Held on full moon, the festival draws San dancers and musicians from across southern Africa to the largest annual gathering of San peoples. The film expresses the hopes and dreams of San dancers as they strive to revitalize their beautiful dance traditions, which are threatened by ongoing marginalization of the San’s fragile hunter-gatherer culture.
Radiating from the Kuru San Dance Festival into the visionary world of the trance-healing dance, SanDance! illuminates the spiritual traditions that underpin ancestral San culture across southern Africa.
Selected Screenings & Awards
Best Documentary, Garden Route Int'l Film Festival, South Africa, 2021
Award of Excellence, Documentary Feature, Impact Docs Award, 2021
Globe Award, ARFF, Barcelona, Spain 2021
Best Cinematography, International Feature, Thin Line Festival, USA 2021
Award of Excellence - Original Score, Docs Without Borders, USA, 2021
Award of Excellence, IndieFEST Film Awards, USA 2021
Best Cinematography, ABQ Indie Film Fest, USA, 2021
Best Feature - Documentary, Bucharest Film Awards, Romania, 2021
Buenos Aires Film Festival, Brazil, 2021
Osaka International Film Festival, Japan, 2021
Garifuna International Indigenous Film Festival, USA, 2021
SanDance! A Journey to the Heart of Africa’s Original Dance Culture
Written & Directed by
Associate Producers
Tim Gabb
Jonathan Cornelius
Producers
Edwin Angless
Richard Wicksteed
Executive Producers
Nico Dekker
Mangana Mangana
Jamie Walker
Xukuri Xukuri
Directors of Photography & Post Production
Timothy Gabb
Jonathan Cornelius
Additional Camera
Richard Kille
Francesco Maria Morotti
Richard Wicksteed
360º Camera
Kevin Rack
Shaun Wilson
Animation, Titles, Graphics, Maps
Alex Noble
Colourist/Grading
David Grant
The Refinery, Cape Town
Featured San Dance Groups
In order of appearance
ǂAmkurikxui group, Khwai, Botswana
Die Nuwe Graskoue Trappers, Cederberg, South Africa
Buga-Khwe group, Khwai, Botswana
Gǂoahn|om group, Nyae Nyae, Namibia
//Xa /oba group, Nyae Nyae, Namibia
Xuu-Khwe-|I group, Mababe, Botswana
Rabbit group, Dqae Qare, Botswana
Giraffe group, Dqae Qare, Botswana
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