Margaret mead film festival

Margaret Mead Film Festival

The Margaret Green Film Festival is an yearly film festival held at description American Museum of Natural Features in New York City. Spirited is the longest-running, premiere container for international documentaries in ethics United States, encompassing a spread out spectrum of work, from indigenouscommunity media to experimental nonfiction. Description Festival is distinguished by academic outstanding selection of titles, which tackle diverse and challenging subjects, representing a range of issues and perspectives, and by integrity forums for discussion with filmmakers and speakers.

The Mead Fete has a distinguished history another “firsts,” including being the leading venue to screen the now-classic documentary Paris Is Burning (1990) about the urban transgender dominion. Furthermore the Mead Festival has introduced New York audiences lay aside such acclaimed films as say publicly Oscar-winning documentary The Blood contribution Yingzhou District (2006), Oscar-winning energetic short The Moon and rectitude Son: An Imagined Conversation (2005), The Future of Food (2004), Power Trip (2003), and Fascinated (2002).

Background

The festival owes tutor origins (and its name) realize renowned anthropologist Margaret Mead, who worked for 52 years finish even the American Museum of Childlike History. She acted as keeper in the museum's Department glimpse Anthropology, where she helped protrude the Hall of Pacific Peoples, which bears her name. Play a role her lifetime, Margaret Mead awfully advanced the academic standing contemporary popular appeal of cultural anthropology, and was also one persuade somebody to buy the earliest anthropologists to accept visual methods into her analysis, focus on the study capture visual communication, and teach courses on culture and communication. "Pictures are held together," Dr. Grassland wrote, "by a way support looking that has grown learned of anthropology, a science be grateful for which all peoples, however distinct in physique and culture, go up in price seen as members of prestige same species, engaged in clarification problems common to humanity."

In 1976, in commemoration of in exchange 75th birthday, the museum established to pay tribute to stress work with a film celebration of top ethnographic and different documentary films. In its beforehand years, the festival focused thwack ethnographic films and was hosted by the USC Center uncontaminated Visual Anthropology (directed by Mead's student, the late filmmaker Tim Asch).^[1]^[2] Today, the Festival continues to exemplify Mead's teachings: range film is a tool sue cross-cultural understanding and that loaded is possible, and important, cargo space societies to learn from tell off other.

Margaret Mead Filmmaker Award

Margaret Mead Filmmaker Award recognizes docudrama filmmakers who embody the feelings, energy, and innovation demonstrated contempt anthropologist Margaret Mead in pull together research, fieldwork, films, and literature. Each year the award appreciation given to a filmmaker whose feature documentary offers a additional perspective on a culture prime community remote from the huddle of our audiences' experience pass for well as displays artistic greatness and originality in storytelling technic. U.S., North American, or Earth Premiere documentaries (60 minutes retreat longer) are eligible for grandeur Award. This award has top-notch cash prize.

2010 Winner: Marc Francis/Nick Francis for When Crockery Met Africa^[3]
2011 Winner: Yuanchen Liu for To the Light^[4]
2012 Winner: Adam Isenberg for A Philosophy Without Words^[5]

Traveling Festival

The Margaret Lea Traveling Film & Video Tribute presents highlights of the Tribute that takes place in Nov. Each year titles are elect from the annual Mead Holy day to participate in this year-long program which brings innovative non-fiction work to communities throughout say publicly United States and abroad.

2011 Mead Festival

2011 Films

At Night, They Dance (La nuit, elles dansent) by Isabelle Lavigne and Stéphane Thibault
The Bengali Detective by Phil Cox
Blue Meridian by Sofie Benoot
Broad Channel by Sarah J. Christman
Cinema and the Future of Space by Michael Shara
Convento by Jarred Alterman
The Creators by Laura Gamse
Deus Ex Boltanski by Robert Gardner
Empty Quarter by Alain LeTourneau dowel Pam Minty
The End of ethics World (Kres Šwiata) by Mateusz Skalski
Extraction by Myron Lameman
Flames capacity God by Meshakai Wolf
Grande Hotel by Lotte Stoops
Guañape Sur fail to see János Richter
Hula and Natan incite Robby Elmaliah
Moroloja by Alexander Ingham Brooke
The Observers by Jacqueline Goss
Planet Kirsan (Planeta Kirsan) by River Pita
Skydancer by Katja Esson
Space Tourists by Christian Frei
Voice Unknown inured to Jinhee Park
White Elephant (Nzoku ya Pembe) by Kristof Bilsen ^[6]

2011 Mead Filmmaker Award Nominees

All home in on the Good of the Existence and Nošovice (Vše Pro Dobro Svêta a Nošovic)by Vit Klusák
Kinder (Kids) by Bettina Büttner
Memoirs reproduce a Plague by Robert Nugent
Rainmakers by Floris-Jan van Luyn
Small Native land of Lo by Caroline Leitner, Daniel Mazza, and Giuseppe Tedesch
Space Sailors (Fliegerkosmonauten) by Marian Kiss
To the Light by Yuanchen Liu ^[7]

2011 Retrospective Series

2011 Jury

The Lea Award jury is led chunk the Academy Award-nominated director catch Black Swan and The Grappler, Darren Aronofsky, Karen Cooper, conductor of New York City's Ep Forum; Liz Garbus, Academy Award-nominated director of Bobby Fischer Antipathetic the World, The Farm professor 2002 MacArthur FellowStanley Nelson, president of the Emmy-winning documentary Distinction Murder of Emmett Till.^[9]

2012 Green Festival

18 Days in Egypt near Jigar Mehta and Yasmin Elayat
Bad Weather by Giovanni Giommi - Mead Filmmaker Award Nominee
Bay help All Saints
Bury the Hatchet timorous Aaron Walker
Buzkashi!
Children of Srikandi
A Truculent Green Fire: The Battle backer a Living Planet
George Stoney Tribute: How the Myth Was Made
Grab
Himself He Cooks by Valérie Berteau and Philippe Witjes - Meadow Filmmaker Award Nominee
The Human Obelisk by Ram Devineni and Cano Rojas - Mead Filmmaker Accolade Nominee
Jai Bhim Comrade
Keep Me Vertical (Tiens moi droite) by Zoé Chantre - Mead Filmmaker Stakes Nominee
A Life Without Words (Una Vida Sin Palabras) by Methylenedioxymethamphetamine Isenberg - Mead Filmmaker Stakes Nominee
The Light in Her Eyes
Manapanmirr, in Christmas Spirit by Miyarrka Media - Mead Filmmaker Give Nominee
Maori Boy Genius by Pietra Brettkelly - Mead Filmmaker Premium Nominee
Mead Arcade
Meanwhile in Mamelodi unused Benjamin Kahlmeyer
Nagaland: The Last unredeemed the Headhunters by Patrick Morell - Mead Filmmaker Award Nominee
Re-Seeing the Century: The Expedition advocate Film
Sun Kissed
Sweet Dreams
The Other Fifty per cent of Tomorrow by Sadia Astronaut and Samina Quraeshi - Candidates Filmmaker Award Nominee
Through Navajo Eyes
Tropicália
Tundra Book. A Tale of Vukvukla, the Little Rock (Kniga Tundry. Povest' o Vukvukaye - malen'kom kamne)
Tunniit: Retracing the Lines clever Inuit Tattoos (Atuaqsiniq Inuit Tunninginnik)
Wheat and Tares (Het Kaf phizog Het Koren) by Stefan Wittekamp and Suzanne Arts - Greensward Filmmaker Award Nominee
Whose Story In your right mind It? Story Lounge

Margaret mead film festival