LINDSAY GAUTHIER - FILMMAKER
Emmy award winning writer, director, producer, and editor of digital media art with a specialization in screendance, documentary storytelling, experimental film, and visual design for live performance.
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
Rapt Productions - Creative Director / Owner - San Francisco, CA, 2008 - Present
SF Dance Film Festival - Co-Laboratory Creative Producer - San Francisco, CA, 2013 - 2018
Freelance - Dance Artist, Performer, Choreographer, and Educator - Various Locations, 1996 – 2010
FILMOGRAPHY & SCREENINGS
2023
Wild, Narrative Dance Film – Writer / Director / Editor
Creative Work Fund Grant Recipient, Dance Film SF Commission, In development, 2021-2023
Premiere of Short Excerpt, SF Dance Film Festival, 2021
World Ballet Day, San Francisco Ballet – Producer
Cal Performances Iluminations: Individual and Community, Web Series – Co-Director / Editor
2022
Sean Dorsey Dance: Dreaming Trans and Queer Futures, If Cities Could Dance Web Series Episode – Writer / Director / Editor
Emmy Award for Director in Arts and Entertainment Short Form Content
Winner of the Miss Major Griffin-Gracy Award at San Antonio QFest International Film Festival
Over 16 festival screenings including:
Frameline Film Festival, 2023
SF DocFest, 2023
American Dance Festival, 2023
Paris Shorts, 2023 - Best Short Documentary: Festival Director’s Award
Atlanta International Docs Festival, 2023
SF Transgender Film Festival, 2022
Diatom Deli, Triptych of Music Videos – Co-Writer / Co-Director / Editor
Waves Will See (Your Smiling Face), 2022 (Youtube – 80k views), Disarray, 2022 (Youtube - 36k views), False Alarm, 2022
Terraqueous, Sculpture Film Installation – Co-Director / Editor
Dolby Chadwich Gallery, 2022
Iluminations: Human and Machine, Cal Performances Web Series – Co-Director / Editor
2021
Transpire, Dance Film / Performance Installation for Bandaloop Live Performance – Co-Writer / Director / Editor
Morrison Center, Boise ID, 2021
Hunting Gathering, Short Dance Film – Director / Editor
ODC Theater Festival, 2021
Mozart and Salieri, Opera San Jose Digital Production – Director
Domestic Trilogy, Opera San Jose Digital Production – Director
Wooden Dimes, Dance Film – Producer / Editor
San Francisco Ballet 2021 Digital Season
2020
COLORFORMS, Dance Film – Producer
San Francisco Ballet 2021 Digital Season
Mrs. Robinson, Short Dance Film – Producer / Editor
San Francisco Ballet 2021 Digital Season
Last Dance, Dance Film – Co-Director / Editor
San Diego international Film Festival, 2021
Venezia Shorts Film Festival, 2021
These Lines Are Living, Video Installation – Filmmaker
Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin, CA, 2020
2019
NEON, Commercial Video Design – Writer / Director / Producer / Editor
CES - NEON Samsung Booth 2020
Making and Remaking Beethoven, Feature Documentary for UC Berkeley’s Cal Performances – Co-Writer / Director / Editor
Golden, Dance Film – Editor
Film Fest by Rogue Dancer 2020
Austin Dance Festival 2020
ADF Movies by Movers, 2020
And many others
2018
Wildfires through the Heartwood, Dance Film Short – Director / Producer / Editor
San Francisco Dance Film Festival, San Francisco, CA, 2018
Petaluma Arts Center, Petaluma, CA, 2018
Museum Exhibitions across Sonoma County, CA, 2018
But First, Co-Laboratory Dance Film - Creative Producer
Over 30 Festival Screenings including:
Agite y Sirva, Mexico City. May 2019
Prague Dance Film Festival. May 2019
ADF Movies by Movers, Durham, N.C. June 2019
Dance on Camera, NYC. July, 2019
ScreenDance International, Detroit. August, 2019
Cleveland International Film Festival, Cleveland, OH, 2019
Chrysalis, Co-Laboratory Dance Film - Creative Producer
Cleveland International Film Festival, Cleveland, OH, 2019
Tiny Dance Film Festival, San Francisco, CA, 2019
Screendance Miami Festival, Miami, FL, 2019
San Francisco Dance Film Festival, San Francisco, CA 2018
Miami Screendance Festival, Miami, 2019
2017
Into the Heartwood, Dance Film Video Design for Dance Performance - Designer
Sebastopol Center for the Arts, CA, 2017
Fire and Ashes, Feature Documentary and Dance Film - Editor
Premiere Theater, San Francisco, CA, 2019
Dance on Camera Festival, Lincoln Center, NY, 2018
San Francisco Dance Film Festival, 2017
Battle, Co-Laboratory Dance Film - Creative Producer
Tiny Dance Film Festival, San Francisco, CA, 2019
Dance on Camera Festival, Lincoln Center, NY, 2018
MarDelDance Presents: Dance on Film Festival, NJ, 2018
Female Filmmakers Fuse Film Festival, Pasadena, CA, 2018
Capitol Dance & Cinema Festival, Silverspring, MD, 2018
Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema, Boulder, Co, 2018
San Francisco Dance Film Festival, San Francisco, CA, 2017
Coming Home, Co-Laboratory Dance Film - Creative Producer
Tiny Dance Film Festival, San Francisco, CA, 2019
San Francisco Dance Film Festival, San Francisco, CA, 2017
2016
Light Up Central Market Street, Documentary Short - Director / Editor
In the Space Between, Co-Laboratory Dance Film - Creative Producer
San Francisco Dance Film Festival, San Francisco, CA, 2016
The Wind Telephone, Co-Laboratory Dance Film - Creative Producer
Choreoscope, Barcelona, Spain, 2018
Marfa Film Festival, Marfa, TX, 2017
Tiny Dance Film Festival, San Francisco, CA, 2017
San Francisco Dance Film Festival, San Francisco, CA, 2016
2015
The Orchard Development, Multi Screen Projection Design for Live Theater Performance, Designer
Person Theater, Sonoma State University, CA, 2015
OPEN, Dance Film Short - Writer / Director / Editor
8 Festival Screenings Including:
Portland Dance Film Festival, Portland, OR, 2017
Cascadia Dance Film Festival, Vancouver, BC, 2017
Dance Camera West, Los Angeles, CA, 2017
Oklahoma Dance Film Festival, Tulsa, OK, 2017
Mad Scene, Dance Film Short - Creative Producer
2016 Cinedans, Amsterdam
2016 San Francisco Tiny Dance Film Festival
2015 San Francisco Dance Film Festival
Listen to the Oracle, Dance Film Short - Creative Producer
2016 San Francisco Tiny Dance Film Festival
2015 San Francisco Dance Film Festival
2014
Art is the Root, Documentary Short - Co-Director
New Conservatory Theater Center, San Francisco, 2014
Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, 2015
The Music is Moving, Dance Film Short - Editor
2014 San Francisco Dance Film Festival
2014 World Arts Film Festival
Brother from Another Time, Dance Film Short - Creative Producer
2014 San Francisco Dance Film Festival
AM/FM, Dance Film Short - Creative Producer
2014 San Francisco Dance Film Festival
2015, Dance Camera West, Los Angeles
Restless, Dance Film Short - Creative Producer
2014 San Francisco Dance Film Festival
2013
Since You Went, Dance Film Short - Co-Director / Editor
12 Festival Selections Including:
Bestias Danzantes Film & Dance Festival, Santiago, Chile, 2015
Dance on Camera Festival, Lincoln Center, NY, 2014
Cinedans Festival – Dance on Screen, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2015
City Art Link, Linköping, Sweden, 2014
Avayava Contemporary Dance Festival, Pune, India, 2014
Horizon Screendance Festival, Bethlehem, NH, 2014
Kinetoscope: Screendance Film Festival, Missoula, Montana, 2014
Movies by Movers Festival, Winston Salem, NC, 2013
Sins Invalid: An Unshamed Claim to Beauty, Feature Documentary - Editor
Vancouver Queer Film Festival, 2014
Toronto Inside Out Film Festival, 2014
Kansai Queer Film Festival, Osaka, Japan, 2014
From the Beginning, Dance Film Short – Producer
2014 San Francisco Dance Film Festival
2015 Frameline
Barn Dance, Dance Film Short – Producer
2014 San Francisco Dance Film Festival
2015 San Francisco International Film Festival
2013 Co-Laboratory, Mini Documentary – Director / Producer / Editor
2012
Blue, Dance Film Short - Editor
De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA, 2012
2011
Bizzness, TuNe-YaRds Music Video - Script Supervisor
Sidewalk, Dance Film Short - Director / Editor
San Francisco Dance Film Festival, 2013
Breaking Ground Festival, 2014
2007
Thresheld, Dance Film Short - Choreographer / Dancer
West Wave Dance Film Festival, 2008
San Francisco Dance Film Festival, 2010 & 2011
PANELS, COMMITTEES, AND CLASSES
Dance Screen Workshop Instructor - CSU East Bay, University of San Francisco, Sonoma State University, Berkeley High School, El Cerrito High School, 2020-2021
Berlin & Beyond Film Festival, Youth 4 Cinema Workshop Instructor, San Francisco, CA, 2020
DFA Global Exchange, Presenter, Dance On Camera Festival at Lincoln Center, NY, 2018
Hivery Circle with San Francisco Dance Film Festival, Presenter, Hivery, Mill Valley, CA, 2017
SF Dance Film Festival, Film Festival Selection Committee Member / Curator, 2013-2014
SF Tiny Dance Film Festival, Film Festival Selection Committee Member, 2014