Loránd János. Director of Choreoscope – Barcelona Dance Film Festival. Born in 1980 in Transylvania, he studied film directing at the Bucharest Film Academy, as well as Photo-Video Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bucharest.Since 2001 lives in Barcelona, where he finished his studies in Advertising & PR, and has directed several short dance films. His films have been screened in festivals (Dance on Camera, Jumping Frames, Tanzbiennale Heidelberg…) and programmed in television. In 2015, a retrospective of his work was screened at the III Video and Experimental Art exhibition Vartex Medellín, Colombia. Jury member of the Production Grant Review Panel for the Dance Films Association New York in the selection of post-production grants for screendance projects (2014), Leeds International Film Festival - Screendance Competition (2019 and 2020), Zinetika Festival (2021) and Cinedans Amsterdam (2022 and 2023).He participated in the International Meeting of Performative Research of the University of the Basque Country (2015 - 2019), in 2018 in the VI International Dance Congress of the University of Malaga and Future Screens of Dance Conference of the Loikka International Dance Film Festival in Helsinki. At the Investigation in History and Theory of the Dance Seminar of the Complutense University of Madrid he talked about "Audiovisual Dance: The role of Choreoscope in the delimitation of the discipline". In 2016 he publishes “Dance at 24 frames per second. Reflection and precursor of social changes". Co-written with Begoña Olabarria Smith, presented in the IV National Congress and I International Dance Research organized by the Spanish Association D+I: Dance and Research in collaboration with the Polytechnic University of Valencia it examines the impact of dance films in our society.Loránd has been teaching Dance Film at IAB (Institute of Arts Barcelona) In 2019 and 2020 he presented the Choreoscope Case Study for the students of the Master in Event Management at the UPF Barcelona School of Management and is invited to represent IAB as a guest researcher in the Make A Move digital art incubator co-funded by the Creative Europe program of the European Union. Currently he is teaching Audiovisual Resources for dance and choreography students at Institut del Teatre Barcelona. His most recent projects include Moovy Tanzfilmfestival in Cologne, Germany (co-artistic director 2017-2021) and he is currently the online dance film program curator of Dansa Metropolitana Barcelona.