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The story of VideoFest

• Read the profile on VideoFest founder Bart Weiss in the November issue of D Magazine.

For 22 years the Video Association of Dallas has provided access to insightful and forward-looking, cutting edge media. From its beginnings, the Dallas Video Festival focused on championing the democratization of media through spreading the gospel of affordable video technology.

Access to the low cost (and even lower quality) video camera was the key to unlocking the creative expression of countless artists, amateur journalists and individuals with an interesting story to tell. The Dallas Video Festival became a critical public outlet for these independent voices, and a reliable source of fascinating, experimental, and often intensely personal videos which were otherwise unavailable to the public. The Video Association has held the vision that video was the future, and this future has come to pass.

Moving into the second decade of the new millennium, the Dallas Video Festival will now be known simply as VideoFest. VideoFest is both a first stop for artists who will go on to great things, and a last stop for many works, a chance to be shown before a public audience before slipping off into the vast online ocean of unwatched media.

VideoFest reviews hundreds of artists' submissions each year, travels the globe seeking undiscovered talent, and scours the internet for the interesting and the unusual. This year VideoFest founder Bart Weiss traveled to both Pakistan and Poland seeking to promote the power of video, and returned with work from the far corners of the world.

Access to the low cost video camera was the key to unlocking the creative expression of countless artists.  

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