slightlymoving

i’ve submitted three of my short dance films to the imdb website. after a couple of revisions and proving (via websites) that my films had been shown at film festivals they accepted them. it wasn’t completely straightforward, but it wasn’t difficult to do.

what i find surprising is how few dance film titles are in the database. when you click on that link you’ll see that there are 1,595 titles with the keyword of dance - so what am i talking about? well… Get Smart is in the top 20 of that list (sorted by date), so it’s not a particularly accurate way of finding dance based films, more for finding films with dance in them i reckon.

having said that, The Rain and Car Men (both shown at Cinedans earlier this month) were both listed. the Cinedans (and audience) award winner Dance Like Your Old Man is not listed, nor are many others that showed.

so i decided to add a new keyword of screendance to the imdb database. so far there’s only one title (hehe). i hope people add their works and use the keyword - perhaps this can also help contribute to defining the genre (although the listing criteria for imdb means that many screendance works wouldn’t get a guernsey).