Thanks to the generosity of our donors, we are excited to
announce that we will soon be submitting “It’s a Fabulous World” to
several film festivals.
We hope to be able to announce the film’s
debut soon. Our goal is to enter the film in forty festivals over the
next year, but to do so, and to provide the exposure that our fabulous
ballroom industry deserves, we need money:
$6,000.00 to
Click here to donate: https://paypal.me/EldarAsanov (PayPal and other credit cards)
Festivals to which we will be submitting the film:
- Los Angeles Reel Film Festival
$55
Los Angeles, CA, United States
11 Years
May 15-16 2019 - Big Apple Film Festival and Screenplay Competition
$90
New York, New York, United States
16 Years
May 16-18 2019 - Atlanta Underground Film Festival
$35-60
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
16 Years
August 15-18 2019 - Mosaic World Film Festival
$20
United States
12 Years
August 23-25 - DOCUTAH International Documentary Film Festival
$60
St. George, UT, United States
9 Years
September 3-7 - Austin Revolution Film Festival
$50-60
Austin, TX, United States
8 Years
September 3-7 2019 - Camden International Film Festival
$40-60
Camden, ME, United States
15 Years
Academy Award ® Qualifying
September 12-15 2019 - Coney Island Film Festival
$45-65
Top 100 Best Reviewed
Brooklyn, NY, United States
19 Years
September 13-15 - Los Angeles Lift-Off Film Festival
$45-60
Los Angeles, CA, United States
9 Years
September 23-28 - Raindance
19 Lower Regent St London SW1Y 4LR United Kingdom
$72-130
27 Years
Academy Award ® Qualifying
BAFTA Qualifying
September 18-29 2019 - BendFilm Festival
$52-77
Bend, Oregon, United States
16 Years
October 10-13 - Hamptons International Film Festival
$90
East Hampton, NY, United States
27 Years
Academy Award ® Qualifying
October 10-14 - Portland Film Festival
$60-80
Portland, OR, United States
7 Years
October 14-20 - DOC LA. Los Angeles Documentary Film Festival
$50-80
Los Angeles, California, United States
5 Years
October 16-20 2019 - New Orleans Film Festival
$70-80
New Orleans, LA, United States
30 Years
Academy Award ® Qualifying
October 16-24 - Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival
Hot Springs National Park, AR, United States
$60-80
28 Years
Academy Award ® Qualifying
October 18-26 2019 - Arpa International Film Festival (Arpa IFF)
$50-80
Los Angeles, CA, United States
$50-80
22 Years
October 25-27 - San Francisco Dance Film Festival
$50-60
San Francisco, CA, United States
10 Years
November 1-10
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$40-65
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
14 Years
November 7-10 - DOC NYC
$90-110
New York, NY, United States
10 Years
Academy Award ® Qualifying
November 7-14 - American Documentary And Animation Film Festival and Film Fund
$45-70
Palm Springs, CA, United States
9 Years
Academy Award ® Qualifying
March 27-31 2020 - AFI FEST
https://filmfreeway.com/AFIFEST
$75-85
33 Years Running
Academy Award ® Qualifying
Los Angeles, CA, US - https://filmfreeway.com/DanceCameraWest
$50-60
17 Years Running
Los Angeles, California, US - London International Screen Dance Festival
https://filmfreeway.com/LondonInternationalScreenDanceFestival
$25
London, England, United Kingdom - Nashville Film Festival
$80-90
50 Years Running
https://filmfreeway.com/NashFilm
Academy Award ® Qualifying
Top 100 Best Reviewed
Nashville, Tennessee, US - https://filmfreeway.com/Festivaldunouveaucinema
$40-55
48 Years Running
Academy Award ® Qualifying
Montréal, Québec, Canada - Calgary International Film Festival
https://filmfreeway.com/CalgaryInternationalFilmFestival
$60-80
20 Years Running
Academy Award ® Qualifying
Calgary, AB, Canada - Vancouver International Film Festival
https://filmfreeway.com/VIFF
$47-70
38 Years Running
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - Denver Film Festival
https://filmfreeway.com/DenverFilmFestival
$55-100
42 Years Running - Melbourne Documentary Film Festival
https://filmfreeway.com/MelbourneDocumentaryFilmFestival
$60
Carlton, Victoria, Australia - Stockholm Film Festival
https://filmfreeway.com/StockholmFilmFestival
$75-125
30 Years Running
Bafta Cymru Qualifying
Stockholm, Sweden - FILMFESTIVAL KITZBUEHEL
https://filmfreeway.com/FFKB
$73-78
Vienna, Austria - Edmonton International Film Festival
https://filmfreeway.com/EdmontonInternationalFilmFestival
$50-65
33 Years Running
Academy Award ® Qualifying
EDMONTON, Alberta, Canada - Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival
https://filmfreeway.com/EvolutionMallorcaInternationalFilmFestival
$50-70
7 Years Running
Top 100 Best Reviewed
Palma de Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain - Capitol Dance & Cinema Festival
https://filmfreeway.com/CapitolDCFestival
$60-75
3 Years Running
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States - https://filmfreeway.com/MoscowExperimentalFilmFestival
$25
4 Years Running
Moscow, Russian Federation - Cork Film Festival
https://filmfreeway.com/CorkFilmFestival
$55-70
Academy Award ® Qualifying
BAFTA Qualifying
European Film Award Qualifying
Castle Chambers, Cork, Co. Cork Ireland - Chicago International Film Festival
https://filmfreeway.com/ChicagoInternationalFilmFestival
$80-150
Academy Award ® Qualifying
BAFTA Qualifying
Chicago, IL, US - Leeds International Film Festival
https://filmfreeway.com/leedsfilmfest
$75-90
33 Years Running
Academy Award ® Qualifying
BAFTA Qualifying
Leeds Town Hall, England UK - Austin Film Festival
https://filmfreeway.com/AustinFilmFestival
$60-85
26 Years Running
Academy Award ® Qualifying
Top 100 Best Reviewed
Austin, Texas, US
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Promotion agency (Promotion, strategy, control, managing) fee: $25/submission ($ 1000)
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“It’s a Fabulous World” is a quirky and affecting documentary film about the business of ballroom dancing in the United States.
After two years of work, the film premiered, December 8, 2018, at the Saturday evening session of the Holiday Dance Classic Dancesport Competition in Las Vegas. The showing was made possible through the generous support of the Holiday Dance Classic organizers.
The idea for the film originated with a Russian filmmaker, Eldar Asanov, who, while on a trip to study in the United States, befriended two professional ballroom dancers, Yakiv Myronyuk and Vitaly Novikov. Yakiv and Vitaly were working as teaching pros and introduced Eldar to the obscure world of Pro/Am Dancesport – a sport which gets little media attention despite the broad popular appeal of TV shows such as “Dancing with the Stars”. Few people know that every weekend, at approximately ninety-six venues nationwide, amateur dancers and their professional partners compete in every ballroom genre from waltz to cha cha cha. Eldar casts his lens on this world and gives us a peek inside the business of ballroom dancing. Yakiv and Vitaly took Eldar on a journey through the pro/am dancesport circuit, beginning with a Halloween themed event in Connecticut. As they became engrossed with his subjects and the denizens of the sport, they simultaneously had to grapple with the challenges of raising the money needed to fund their new ambition – to make, in their words, the “first” documentary focused on the ballroom industry.
In the film, Eldar, Yakiv and Vitaly transport us through a universe populated by dancing lawyers, brokers, TV personalities and even Arnold Schwarzenegger! The three traveling companions and co-producers encounter some of the biggest legends in the business who freely provide advice and encouragement to the documentarians. Despite the project’s popularity in the ballroom community, funding remained scarce. There were some anxious moments after a crowdfunding effort failed. Yakiv is forced to sell most of his earthly possessions in order to keep producing the film. As a world champion dancer alluded to the challenges of pursuing an art form, “There will be interesting moments, ups and downs and that is the beauty of it. It is never just perfect…”. And those challenges remain.
Eldar and his co-producers are reaching out to the broader public in an effort to cover the costs associated with the project such as obtaining the rights to use copyrighted music in their film. But their goal remains the same: to give everyone the opportunity to watch this absorbing film about the fabulous world of ballroom dance.