DALLAS VIDEO FESTIVAL
NOVEMBER 6-9, 2008

The Dallas Video Festival returns for its 21st year November 6-9, 2008 at the Angelika Film Center at Mockingbird Station, 5321 East Mockingbird. As usual, the Dallas Video Festival will showcase cutting-edge, fiercely independent work by local, regional, national and international video artists.
The Dallas Video Festival has showcased pioneering efforts in the video world since 1986 and will continue to push some buttons by showing that video is more than a medium – it is a voice when put in the hands of media activists, a glimpse of the sublime in the hands of artists, and a tool for social change in the hands of documentary makers.
Programs range from imaginative 30-second television commercials to mesmerizing video art, compelling documentaries, surrealistic animation, innovative digital features, and narrative shorts that surprise, inspire and entertain.
Patrons may purchase day passes or All-Festival passes making this Festival the best deal in town (no per film tickets). Visit www.videofest.org for more information.

21st Annual Dallas Video Festival Highlights will include:

• RAIDERS: THE ADAPTATION, the result of three 12 year old friends adapting Raiders of the Lost Ark shot by shot for over 7 summers. The cult favorite is sweeping the underground festival circuit and has garnered so much attention that Spielberg himself has purchased the life rights of its three makers for a feature film about their lives spent remaking his movie. Filmmaker in attendance.
• THE TEXAS SHOW, a juried compilation of short film and video by Texas artists

• ALBERT MAYSLES AWARD for an emerging documentary filmmaker.  Albert Maysles will be in attendance to present his own work and to award the hand-picked documentary filmmaker of his choice.  The documentary work of the award-winning maker will also be showcased.

• SIGGRAPH Electronic Theater

• THE LONDON INTERNATIONAL ADVERTISING AWARDS

• GUTS N GLORY live performance and short video

ABOUT THE DALLAS VIDEO FESTIVAL
The Dallas Video Festival is now the oldest and largest video festival in the United States, and continues to garner critical and popular acclaim. Since 1986, the Dallas Video Festival has specialized in independent, alternative, and non-commercial media, presenting hard-to-find works rarely seen on television, in movie theaters, or elsewhere, despite their artistic excellence and cultural and social relevance. Even in a Web 2.0 environment where everything is seemingly available on the Internet, the Dallas Video Festival provides curatorial guidance, a critical voice in the wilderness navigating the vast and diverse landscape of media, helping to interpret its cultural and artistic significance. The event still provides a communal environment for real-time, face-to-face dialogue between makers and audiences.

ABOUT VIDEO ASSOCIATION of DALLAS:
The mission of the Video Association is to promote an understanding of video as a creative medium and cultural force in our society, and to support and advance the work of Texas artists working in video and the electronic arts.  
The Video Association of Dallas (VAD) is a 501(c)(3) organization incorporated on April 25, 1989. It began in 1986 a weekend event, “Video As A Creative Medium”, presented at the Dallas Museum of Art by independent curators Barton Weiss and John Held. That first event, which included two nights of video by selected local and national video artists, was a great popular success, which led to the founding of the Dallas Video Festival (DVF) in 1987.  Video Association of Dallas presents the 24 Hour Video Race and other programs throughout the year.
For press information, please contact Lisa Taylor at 214-943-1099 or email lisatmp@swbell.net.