Thank you for coming to Luna’s Family Dance Film Festival! Our day-long celebration spotlighting the cinematic and choreographic inventions of dance legends, animators, dance documentarians, and aerialists was a success! Our event featured more than twenty classic and contemporary films merging the disciplines of choreography and cinema, uniquely curated for children and families into four different showings.
This community-based festival honored the late Bert May, a beloved dancer who graced the screen in Mary Poppins (which started off our festival!) and other timeless classics such as The Music Man and Carousel, and whose legacy includes support for Luna scholarships in perpetuity.
Saturday, December 13th
Four distinct film showings at 9:30am, 1pm, 2:30pm, and 4:30pm
Luna Dance & Creativity
931 Ashby Ave, Berkeley (entrance on Potter Street)
Festival Session Schedule and Featured Films
9:30am
Mary Poppins (1964), 2:19:00
Robert Stevenson
1pm
POW! (2025), 8:16
Joseph Clift
Rolling Down Like Pele (2004), 4:50
Laura Margulies
JINSHAN: Seams of Gold (2025), 11:37
Megan Lowe, Rose Huey, and Nino Fernandez
tree (2021), 2:10
Alisa Rasera
Inter-Meadow (2021), 2:57
Claudine Naganuma
Hepa! (1998), 6:28
Laura Margulies
Algodones Dunes (Official Music Video) – Maya Elise & The Good Dream (2023), 3:48
Ollalie Lackler and Jonah Kagan
This event is made possible through the generous support of Commercial Bank of California.
2:30pm
Body Without Organs (2023), 6:02
Carol Kueffer and Dylan Moore
Serpentine Dance (1897), 4:34
Loie Fuller
Open Hands (2024), 8:10
Carol Kueffer and Dylan Moore
Split Focus (2025), 5:47
Cherie Carson
Chrysalis Dream (2022), 3:27
Claudine Naganuma
Passages (2021), 7:13
Carol Kueffer and Dylan Moore
Ha Ha Ha Haaaaa (2020), 3:13
Claudine Naganuma
4pm
Us Again (2021), 7:00
Zach Parrish
Dancing With What’s Around (2020), 7:49
Risa Jarslow
BOING (2021), 1:34
Claudine Naganuma
Doors (2021), 6:49
Alisa Rasera
The Comet And What Alissa Thought She Saw (1989), 7:18 (Note: film contains sensitive subject matter regarding a miscarriage.)
Laura Margulies
When Nanay Comes Home From The Hospital (2021), 6:06
Deborah Slater
Face Ocean (2025), 3:22
Carol Kueffer and Dylan Moore