Birds Eye View : Past Weekenders : Street Dance 3D

Street Dance 3D

Filmmaker: Directed by Dania Pasquini and Max Giwa

UK, Cert. PG / 2010 / 98 min / English

Opening Weekend Date: 21 May 2010

Things couldn't be going better for street dancer Carly (Nichola Burley-see her next month in Kicks). She's in love with charismatic boyfriend Jay (Ukweli Roach) and their dance crew has just made it through to the finals of the UK Street Dance Championships. But everything changes when Jay walks out on Carly and the crew, breaking her heart and leaving the street dancers' dreams in jeopardy.

Read our exclusive interview with Dania Pasquini on the BEV blog.

Thrown in at the deep end, Carly struggles to prove to the crew - and to herself - that she can lead them to victory. But, after a series of setbacks including losing their rehearsal space, she begins to seriously doubt her leadership skills. Salvation comes in the unlikely shape of ballet schoolmistress Helena (Charlotte Rampling). Impressed by the skill and enthusiasm of Carly and her troupe, she strikes the street dancers a deal: they can practise in the Ballet Academy's luxurious dance studio in return for collaborating with her ballet dancers and a clash of cultures ensues...

Will the two groups of dancers find a way to work together before the Street Dance Championship finals, and the Royal Ballet auditions? Vertigo Films presents the UK's first ever street dance movie, and the first British film to be shot entirely in 3D.

With debut film appearances from Britain's Got Talent stars Flawless, Diversity and George Sampson, this groundbreaking event movie is an inspiring, exhilarating joyride through the UK's street dance scene.

About the Directors: Dania Pasquini and Max Giwa

Award-winners Max & Dania - now a directing partnership for over ten years - have stepped their career up a gear since joining Bikini Films in 2005. They have gone from strength to strength in the music video world with high-profile promos for Craig David, Lee Ryan and Westlife. Pasquini and Giwa have won an array of awards for their music videos including a Platinum Sales Award for significant contribution to album sales.

Simultaneously they have also been concentrating on their commercials career, with a piece hard hitting piece for Mothers Against Guns, commissioned by Ken Livingstone and in particular the very successful Swatch ‘Splash Mob' presenting them as an exciting creative force in the commercials world.

An exciting blend of striking, original concepts and inventive, complex post-effects, mixed with an innate sense of cool, has found Max and Dania producing work of an extremely high quality again and again and has enabled them to work on both sides of the Atlantic.