DANCEFUR DOCUMENTARY INFO

Ever watched a dance battle where the participants are wearing bespoke $4000 carpets? I have been attending conventions for 20+ years and never been so instantly in love with the concept of bringing DANCEFURS to the screen.

It's So You Think You Can Dance.... with about 20 times the sweat.

Dance Monsters in real life.

Zero CG required.

Furries are a subculture that, (while not all of them want to or can afford to), sometimes wear anthropomorphic animal costumes. They like to dance in those costumes, in front of a crowd of hundreds of people (to the limits of fire capacity and beyond, in separate overflow viewing rooms!!)... and they absolutely go wild!!


Look at that Sheep get AIR!!! That's Satire!

I have seen things in my years watching these DANCEFURS that have made my jaw drop. Things that have made me say "oh yeah, that was the price of my plane ticket right there, to see this live". I've seen a person in a dog costume do a headstand, pause for effect and turn.



My reaction, picked out of the crowd:
   

The don't do it for money. They pay to be at these conventions to compete. They do it for you, the fans. And this documentary will tell their stories via the conventions I travel to in Canada. The competitions are streamed live to fans all over the world, but no one has gone in and interviewed these contestants, the judges, and the people running the show before. And they certainly don't know them as well as I do!!


(I helped the judges this year at Fur-Eh! by volunteering to enter their scores so they could focus on feedback)

When I was Guest of Honour at Vancoufur in 2024, I was a judge! And was given a crash course in what these dancers get graded on and go through by other judges. 



I'm making this documentary from a place of extreme admiration and respect for these dancers, as they have entertained me so much over the years - I need to show their work on a much higher scale. They deserve only the best.

I'm making a short shot on mini-DV as a proof of concept, but these stories need the big screen. We need a feature length film!! In the five years I have been a furry content creator, nothing else strikes me as effortlessly cinematic as DANCEFURS. These people are all so charismatic, they have the Clark Kent / Superman appeal with fursuits and their fursonas being their representation in the incredible world of furry and fursuiting... and who doesn't love someone who can dance? It'll take your breath away.

As a Canadian I am most interested in featuring the competition of Canadian conventions. We have an incredible DANCEFUR culture here! I want to show it off to the world.

Most of all, being a DANCEFUR has changed every single one of the lives in this documentary for the better. They have found their people. Being a DANCEFUR has been described, for each person I talked to, as lifechanging.

"The biggest surprise I don't think people actually quite realize is... people don't realize how completely supportive the community is. This is a kind of scene where you can have 30 people take over a WingStop restaurant [...] and they will all cheer when they see you enter!"



They cannot imagine their lives any other way.

Why? 

You will have to watch to find out!


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