Guest Artist/facilitator/mentor for 2012 TBA
Grace Salez Director of Dance for the Camera Program
Independent Filmmaker & Educator,
Sessional Visual Arts Department/University of Victoria
Graduate of the film/video & multimedia program at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, 1995/1998. Grace’s video practice has been in the form of short personal experimental videos. She also has combined her interest in video with dance and developed the Dance for the Camera program in Victoria, BC, which will be in its 6thth season in the summer of 2012. Grace has been awarded Best Short Video for, Cream Puff Theory (2003), by the GVCAC. She has also been honoured with the Blair L. Sadler International Award (2006) for her work as a DOP and editor of the documentary, A Living History. Her short independent videos have been screened at VIFVF, herland film & video Festival, Edges, Unsung Heroes, AGGV, Open Space, AntiMatter, Scene + Heard and other venues. Grace has been an invited guest artist in the visual art departments of Camosun, University of Victoria, Malaspina, and other educational institutes. Currently Grace teaches Video Art in the Visual Arts department at the University of Victoria. She is a founding member of MediaNet, a nonprofit center for film/video artists, as well as the sponsor for the Dance for the Camera summer intensive in Victoria, BC.