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X-DANCE HISTORY
For one insane week each winter, the world’s top action sport filmmakers and athletes, along with cutting-edge bands and DJs and key figures from the entertainment industry, gather in Salt Lake City, Utah, to celebrate action sports culture at the annual X-DANCE Action Sports Film Festival. Launched in 2001 and coinciding each year with the Sundance Film Festival, X-DANCE showcases the year’s top action sport films, followed by post-screening Q&A’s with filmmakers and athletes. X-DANCE also features open forum panels with athletes, filmmakers, industry figures and icons from the action sports world, plus special screenings, privately sponsored parties and a legendary Closing Party/Awards Ceremony. With roots in both the core industry as well as the mainstream, no other event on earth harnesses the creative energy of adrenaline culture and brings it together under one roof like the X-DANCE Action Sports Film Festival.test
Highlights of Past Festivals
- US Premiere of "Bra Boys" at X-Dance 2008
- Athlete of the year award presented to Tony Hawk at X-Dance 2008
- Musical performance by Talib Kweli at X-Dance 2007
- Lifetime Achievement Award presented to Gary Fisher at X-Dance 2007
- Boost Mobile X-Dance Month on Fuel TV an entire month of programming dedicated to X-Dance on the 24/7 action sports network.
- Fuel Experiment which awarded ten filmmakers $100K each to produce an action sports film. The best director out of those ten finalists was awarded $1,000,000 towards a feature film.
- Lifetime Achievement Award presented to Bruce "Endless Summer" Brown by his son, Dana Brown, director of "Step Into Liquid" and "From Dust to Glory."
- Special Screening of the "DC Video," with never-seen-before footage of skateboard legend Danny Way breaking two world records on the Mega-Ramp.
- World Premieres of Tamra Davis' feature film, "Eyes Wide Open," and "Sofia" by Peter Goetz, about Peruvian heroine and world champion surfer, Sofia Mulanovich.
- Musical performances by Swollen Members, Sweatshop Union, P.O.D., Kinky, Paul Oakenfold, DJ Rap, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Ming & FS, Goldfinger, Tommie Sunshine, and Tre Hardson from the Pharcyde
- X-Dance Awards: Best Film 2006 won $25K toward their next production and Boost Mobile presented $10K to the 2006 Short Film winner; Scion and STA Travel gave the Best Emerging 2006 Director a free trip to New Zealand. The MySpace Award to Best Director contributed $75K towards marketing and promotion of film.
