ABOUT
What is it?
Spoofdance Film Festival invites its participants to create short video commercials for fictional companies and “bring the funny.” The name, Spoofdance, is a take-off on other film festivals with “dance” in their title – Sundance, Raindance, Slamdance, and Moondance.
Unlike many film festivals, Spoofdance will debut as an online awards-show without asking its participants to travel to a physical event. The show (debuting Fall 2016) will consist of multiple rounds of “commercial breaks” with personable interludes from its hosts. Award-winners will be presented with their prizes during the show on the phone or via Skype.
Finalist entries will also be considered for inclusion in the upcoming feature film Not From Space, a comedy about human greed.
NOT FROM SPACE is an award-winning radio play heard on XM Satellite Radio from 2003 to 2009, as well as W0kie Satellite Radio and FM stations throughout the USA. It was also discussed on Hardiskken on Denmark National Radio as the first radio play to bring together it's voice actors exclusively over the Internet. Not From Space is a recipent of the Mark Time Award, the Communicator Award of Excellence, and was listed by Time Out magazine as among the top 5 most essential radio plays of all time.
Now join us as we take the steps to adapt Not From Space into a feature film production. Just like its radio predecessor, it will be the largest crowd-sourced film ever made. There will be many options for which you can take part, starting with Spoofdance.
Jeffrey Michael Bays
Writer and Producer of the original NOT FROM SPACE, Jeffrey is now behind the film adaptation and its counterpart SPOOFDANCE FILM FESTIVAL.
Jeffrey is a contributor to MovieMaker Magazine, No Film School,The Director's Chair, and author of Between the Scenes (the first ever book about scene transitions) available in book stores worldwide. His first feature film as director was the Australian Hitchcock homage,Offing David. Jeffrey has a Masters in Cinema from La Trobe University, Australia, and a BA from Webster University, St. Louis.
Further inspiring other artists, he frequently holds workshops at the Palm Springs ShortFest, the Great American Pitchfest in Los Angeles, and the Moondance International Film Festival. For the last decade he has been a leading scholar on Alfred Hitchcock's suspense techniques. His documentary web series Hitch20 and eBook How to Turn Your Boring Movie into a Hitchcock Thriller are both widely popular in filmmaking circles.