We are pleased to announce our Award Jury for the 2024 San Francisco Dance Film Festival. These jury members were selected for their formidable dance, film, and cultural expertise. They will select winners in six categories and we will announce their decisions at the festival finale.
Reid Bartelme
Reid Bartelme is a costume designer and dancer from New York City. He danced in ballet and modern dance companies before attending the Fashion Institute of Technology. Since graduating from FIT’s fashion design program Reid has focused his practice on costuming dance productions. Much of his work is done in collaboration with designer, Harriet Jung. They established Reid & Harriet Design in 2011 and have made costume-centric performance work at the Museum of Art and Design and the Guggenheim Museum in NYC. They have completed fellowships at the Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU and The Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. Reid & Harriet Design recently completed design work on their second Broadway show, Justin Peck’s Illinoise (2024) which was preceded by Bob Fosse’s Dancin’ in 2023. Reid completed his MFA in Dance at University of the Arts in 2021. Reidbartelme.com
Frances Chung
Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Frances Chung trained at Goh Ballet Academy before joining San Francisco Ballet in 2001. She was promoted to soloist in 2005 and to principal dancer in 2009. Chung has danced such major roles as Odette/Odile in Swan Lake; Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty; Swanilda in Coppélia; Cinderella in Wheeldon’s Cinderella, Elizabeth Lavenza in Scarlett’s Frankenstein; Giselle in Tomasson’s Giselle; Sugar Plum Fairy in Nutcracker; Kitri in Don Quixote. She has created roles in ballets, including Forsythe’s Pas/Parts 2016; Peck’s In the Countenance of Kings, McGregor’s Borderlands, Scarlett’s Hummingbird and Fearful Symmetries, Possokhov’s Classical Symphony, Wheeldon’s Borealis, Rhoden’s Let’s Begin at the End among others. Chung received the Isadora Duncan Award for Outstanding Achievement in Performance for the 2013 Repertory Season. As a guest teacher and coach, Chung has taught for the San Francisco Ballet, the San Francisco Ballet School, and Idaho Ballet among numerous other dance institutions in the United States and Canada.
Stéphane Glynn
Stéphane Glynn is the Head of Production at Vavani Productions, an Emmy®-winning prosocial film production company. With Vavani, Stéphane produces, directs, and edits documentaries, assists in the management of Vavani’s scripted content library, and produces marketing materials. Vavani’s latest project is BAREFOOT BOY, a feature documentary about modern dance legend Bill Evans.
Stéphane quickly fell in love with screendance as a Dance Minor at the University of Virginia. After earning his BA in Media Studies & Psychology, his passion for filmmaking led him to Utah, where he completed an MFA in Film & Media Arts and a Screendance Certificate at the University of Utah. Stéphane continues to work on dance films and was one of the co-founders of the Screendance Collective (2013-2019), a group dedicated to curating and discussing screendance.
Jeremy Jacob
Jeremy Jacob (they/them) is a critically acclaimed and award-winning visual artist and filmmaker based in New York City. Jeremy Jacob’s work has been presented internationally by such institutions as La Biennale di Venezia – Palazzo Grassi, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Zuckerman Museum of Art, New York Live Arts, The New York Public Library, Wexner Center for the Arts, Fisher Center at Bard College and Princeton University among others. Jacob’s work also includes on-going collaborations with performance-makers including Jack Ferver, Pam Tanowitz Dance, Netta Yerushalmy, Abby Z and The New Utility, and Trisha Brown Dance Company among others. They are the founding director of A Doll’s House Pictures.
jeremyjacob.com / adollshousepictures.com
Caitlin Sims
Caitlin Sims is editor in chief of Dance Magazine and content director of Dance Media. An editor and writer for more than two decades, she has written and photographed for Dance Magazine, and her writing has appeared in Pointe Magazine, Dance Teacher, Dance Spirit, The New York Times, Newsday and Playbill. After graduating from Stanford with a BA in political science and economics, she was news editor at Dance Magazine, before becoming editorial director of Dance Teacher and Dance Spirit and part of the team that worked with editor Virginia Johnson to launch Pointe magazine. She spent 6 years overseeing content and editorial for San Francisco Ballet as well as managing its social media accounts. She studied ballet with Beatrice Collenette and at Ballet Pacifica in California.
