Gabrielle Lansner

Director

BIOGRAPHIE

Gabrielle Lansner is an award winning filmmaker, choreographer, and producer whose work is influenced by her background in choreography and performing. Her films have screened at dozens of festivals worldwide and garnered multiple awards. She wrote and directed her first short narrative film, Lullaby to Love, in 2020. She is also in the early stages of development for her first narrative feature film, STILL LIFE, which she has penned as well.

 Her film, the birch grove, 2015, had a successful festival run, screening at the Newport Beach Festival, the Cannes Short Film Corner, and Dance on Camera at Lincoln Center, to name a few. The film won the Grand Jury Prize and Best Experimental Film at the Underexposed Film Festival in Rock Hill, S.C. and Best Score at the Santa Barbara Fine Arts Film Festival. Lansner's, THE STRONGER, 2012, premiered at the Cannes Short Film Corner and screened at over twenty festivals, including Interfilm Berlin, Festival International du Film sur L’Art Montreal, and the Female Eye in Toronto, to a name a few. The film received Best Artistic Director Award from the Lady Filmmakers Festival in LA, the Award of Distinction from the Open Stage Festival in Poland, and was nominated for Best Experimental Film at the Female Eye Festival and Best Cinematography at the VisionFest Festival in NYC. From 1997 to 2009, she was the Artistic Director of gabrielle lansner & company, a critically acclaimed dance/theater company based in New York City. FILMOGRAPHY NARRATIVE LULLABY TO LOVE, 2021, 8min. Greenpoint Film Festival, NY
 Lady Filmmakers, LA
 Golden Door FF, NJ STILL LIFE, Feature Length Script, 2018
 
 Female Eye Film Festival, Toronto, 2018: Screenwriter Lab 2nd Round, Austin Film Festival, 2018, Screenwriter Competition
 DANCE Films MEDITATION 2020, 3min. Screenings 2021 
 Yofifest, NY
 Dance Camera Istanbul
 Boulder Dance Festival Sâo Carlos Videodance Festival THE BIRCH GROVE, 2015, 20min. Screenings 2015 - 2021 Cannes Court Metrage
 Cinedans, Amsterdam
 Newport Beach Film Festival, CA
 New Filmmakers, Anthology Film Archives, NY
 Zubroffka FF, PL
 Yofifest, NY
 NYWIFT Member Screening, NY
 Stories We Dance, IT
 Short Waves Festival, PL
 Scena Tanca Studio, Warsaw, PL
 Speechless Film Festival, MN
 Dance On Camera Festival, NY
 ScreenDance Miami, FL
 Underexposed Film Festival, SC
 San Francisco Dance Film Festival
 Sao Carlos Dance Film Festival, BR
 International Fine Arts Film Festival, CA AWARDS Best Original Score, International Fine Arts Film Festival, CA Grand Jury & Best Experimental Film, Underexposed FF, SC
 People’s Choice Award, ScreenDance, Miami THE STRONGER, 2012, 10 min. Screenings 2012 - 2014 Cannes Court Court Metrage, FR 
 Interfilm Festival, Berlin
 BadBilboa, Spain
 Female Eye Film Festival, Toronto
 Newport Beach FF, CA
 Festival Int’l du Film sur L’Art, Montreal
 Visionfest Film Festival, New York
 Lady Filmmakers Film Festival, Los Angeles
 The Open Stage Dance Festival, Poland
 Harvard Strindberg Symposium, MA
 Cucalorus Film Festival, NC
 Oklahoma Dance FF, OK
 Underexposed Film Festival, SC
 Kinetic Cinema, Beacon, NY 
 Videodanza, Sao Carlos, BR
 AthensVideoDance, Greece AWARDS Nominated Best Experimental Film, Female Eye FF, Canada
 Best Artistic Directors Award, Lady Filmmakers Festival, LA 
 Nominated for Best Cinematography, Visionfest Film Festival, NY 
 Broadcast on SVT TV, Sweden, through 2016 DAD, 2010, 7 min. Screenings 2010 - 2014 Athens VideoDance, Greece
 In the Palace, Bulgaria
 Newport Beach Film Festival, CA
 GAGA Arts Festival, NY New Filmmakers Summerfest, Anthology Film Archives, NY 
 Baryshnikov Arts Center, NY AWARDS Award of Merit, Experimental Film, Accolade Competition, CA WISHING, 2010, 5 min. Screenings 2010 - 2013 Langston Hughes FF, Seattle
 GLOW Dance Festival, UK
 Artisan FF, Southampton, NY
 GAGA Arts Festival, NY
 Baryshnikov Arts Center, NYC
 New Filmmakers, Anthology Film Archives, NY

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