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PREHEAT FEST



PREHEAT is an emerging dance film festival founded in Austin in 2022. Our festival prioritizes BIPOC and queer storytellers. PREHEAT celebrates screendance as a hybrid art form that merges choreography and cinematography. This lens of making and experiencing work is exciting to us because of its emergent, alive, and continually evolving nature. We invite artists who do not identify as dance film makers to re-examine their works and discover if dance is already present in their films. This may be seen through the camera movment, movement in the edit, or movement seen on screen. Preheat started as a grassroots gathering in a backyard as an alternative form of organizing and sharing art and we’re thrilled to be contributing to the rich arts scene in Austin for the past five years. 


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