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2-5 March 2010 at Goldsmiths University of London

Goldsmiths Anthropology Society is proud to announce the 2nd edition of International Student Ethnographic Film Festival taking place on 2nd-5th of March 2010 at Goldsmiths University of London. ISEFF is seeking submissions for all types of ethnographic student productions and is open to all filmmakers working within disciplines of anthropology, documentary and arts. ISEFF presents a creative platform for students to expose their ethnographic films to a wider audience. We look to use this medium to encourage and inspire young anthropologists and filmmakers through the discussion of the impact and use of ethnographic film.
In addition to the films we will host a variety of event including a photography exhibition, panel discussions and workshops.

For more information and submission forms:
www.iseff.co.uk

The Festival International du Film Ethnographique du Québec (FIFEQ)
is now in its seventh year! In January and February 2010, approximately one hundred ethnographic films will be shown free of charge in Montreal, Quebec and Chicoutimi.
The screening of these films will be accompanied by lectures, roundtable discussions and social gatherings.
We are now accepting film submissions until November 6th, 2009
Two copies of the films should be submitted in DVD format, in either English or French, or containing English or French sub-titles. The films should be sent to the following name and address:

Festival International du Film Ethnographique du Quebec
Departement d’anthropologie Universite de Montreal
P.O Box 6128, succursale Centre-Ville
Montreal, Quebec, H3C 3J7

The films should be accompanied by a submission form which can be found on our website:

http://www.fifeq.ca

Due to the temporary closure of the Musée de l’Homme for renovation, the 2010 International Jean Rouch Film Festival will take place in Paris at the Grand Gallery of Evolution Auditorium at the National Museum of Natural History, from 27 March to 5 April 2010.
The festival addresses a wide audience, and is an event where documentary films directed by anthropologists, professional filmmakers, by film students or students of social sciences, compete together.
The selection committee will pay particular attention this year, to films which involve a special relationship between director and protagonists. The committee will also be looking at the cinematographic style of each documentary.
All documentary films completed in 2008, 2009, 2010 are eligible for submission, regardless of length of film.
For the first part in the selection process, films will be accepted in DVD or VHS (pal format) until November 30, 2009. After November 30, no entries will be taken.

Films are to be sent to the following address:

Comité du Film Ethnographique
Festival International Jean Rouch
Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, CP 22
36 Rue Geoffroy Saint Hilaire
75005 Paris - France

Enclosed is an entry form, to be returned as soon as possible.
The entry form can also be downloaded on our website, where you can learn about our other activities.
http://www.comite-film-ethno.net

The Organizing Committee :
Françoise Foucault, Pierre Lamarque ( Head of the 2010 Festival), Laurent Pellé

Call for films

We are glad to announce that the 7th Worldfilm festival will be held in Tartu, Estonia, on March 22nd�28th, 2010!
Worldfilm is a documentary film festival, developing interest towards anthropological, analytical approach to cultures and societies. We welcome film entries from all over the world. Especially the independent filmmakers who are not part of mainstream commercial filmmaking are encouraged to submit their works. We also encourage submitting student films.
Each year, the festival becomes a lively community of filmmakers and the audience. We invite authors of the submitted films to be present at our festival in order to introduce their films and discuss their works after the screening.
The event is open to everybody, including creative, curious and knowledgeable filmmakers, scholars, students and all the others, who care about the world around them and love the films bringing this world closer to them.
About 50 films will be screened during the festival week. In addition to the film program, the festival presents round tables, workshops, exhibitions and special programs. The festival has no competition program.

Festival website with all submission info and entry form: www.worldfilm.ee
Email: festival@worldfilm.ee
Deadline for entries and delivery of preview tapes: October 15th 2009

Call for films

The Festival du Film Ethnographique du Québec (FIFEQ) is now in its seventh year! From January 29th to the 31st 2010, approximately one hundred ethnographic films will be shown free of charge in both Montreal and Quebec. The screening of these films will be accompanied by lectures, roundtable discussions and social gatherings.
We are now accepting film submissions until November 6th, 2009.
Two copies of the films should be submitted in DVD format, in either English or French, or containing English or French sub-titles. The films should be sent to the following name and address:
Festival International du Film Ethnographique du Quebec
Departement d'anthropologie
Universite de Montreal
P.O Box 6128, succursale Centre-Ville
Montreal, Quebec, H3C 3J7

The films should be accompanied by a submission form which can be found at our website:
www.fifeq.ca

Origins Festival is the UK's inaugural festival of First Nations creative arts, bringing together groundbreaking artists from the indigenous cultures of Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the USA. At venues across London, the festival explores First Nations experience in the twenty-first century through theatre, film screenings, and participation. For more information, visit www.originsfestival.com <http://www.originsfestival.com/>    

The Meaning of Life
Saturday 9 May, 14.30
Stevenson Lecture Theatre
£3, concessions £2
The film explores vulnerable and violent aspects of society in the Kwìkwèxwelhp prison, and serves as a testimony to the healing power of First Nations culture. Followed by a question and answer session with Tomo Brody, the director’s son and crew member.

Director: Hugh Brody
Canada, 2008, 82 minutes

Kanehsatake: 270 years of Resistance

Thursday 14 May, 18.30
Stevenson Lecture Theatre
£3, concessions £2

In 1990, Alanis Obomsawin spent 78 days and nights filming an armed standoff between the people of Kanehsatake, the Quebec police and the Canadian army. Followed by a discussion with the director.

Director: Alanis Obomsawin
Canada, 1993, 119 minutes

Academic Film Competition

The Academic Film Competition Committee is holding an “Academic Film visual media competition". We will accept visual works from a wide variety of genres which contribute to academic research in either the literary or scientific fields.
Works on themes such as outer space and the environment, films on wildlife, ethnographic film and anthropological cinema, documentaries in sociology and cultural studies, psychology and medical science and practice, are acceptable. Also, the submitted works will be screened at the Kyoto University Academic Film Expo 2009 [from 5th Aug to 10th Dec. 2009] and discussed at the Kyoto University International Symposium 2009
“New Horizons of Academic Visual-Media Practices”
[11-13th Dec. 2009]. Through this experiment, we expect to stimulate vibrant discussion concerning what visual media means for academic research, in what ways
“Academic Films” are different to other films, and such
topics related to academism and visual media.

Please access to Website as bellow to get in-depth
information about this Competition.

Prize
Grand Prize for Visual Academic Work [1]
Supplementary Prize: Film-making Subsidy of 300,000
yen
Awardfor Outstanding Visual Academic Work [2]
Supplementary Prize: Film-making Subsidy of 100,000
yen
Encouragement Award for Visual Academic Work [5]

Deadlines
Online Entry: 31th Aug. 2009.
Film and Report (and additional materials) Submission:
15th Sep. 2009.

Detail guideline is available at
Japanese http://www.museum.kyoto-u.ac.jp/japanese/event/competition_jp/index.html
English http://www.museum.kyoto-u.ac.jp/english/event/competition_en/index.html

Office: The Academic Film Competition Committee
Address: Kyoto University Museum, Yoshida Honmachi,
Sakyo-Ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
Contact: academic-film-compe@inet.museum.kyoto-u.ac.jp
＊We will not respond to any telephone or Fax enquiries
concerning this competition

Date: 24, Feb. 2009. 16:30-22:45
Venue: Theatre Monnot, Universite St. Joseph

Program:
16:30-Screening 1(Visual Anthropology)
‘Bulozi’, by OKAMOTO Masahiro[Kyoto Univ, Japan], 2008
*English Subtitle.

‘Bisso na Bisso (Among us): Gathering, Catching,
　Hunting, Filming and Beyond in Ndongo village
’ by OISHI Takanori[Kyoto Univ, Japan], , 2008 *English
Subtitle.

‘Technique of wood working -A Interior Wood Processing in
Kyoto, Japan
’ by SUZUKI Haruka[Kyoto Univ, Japan], , 2007 *English
Subtitle.

‘UltrasonicScapes’ by YANAGISAWA Eisuke[Kyoto Univ,
Japan], , 2008

19:00-20:10 Screening 2
‘A Permanent Part-timer in Distress’ by IWABUCHI Hiroki,
2008 *English Subtitle.

20:30-22:45 Screening 3
‘Mental’, by SODA Kazuhiro, 2008 *English Subtitle.
*Best Documentary Pusan Film Festival
*Best Documentary Dubai Film Festival

http://web.mac.com/takaoken/iWeb/eizou_toyota/Top.html

Call for Films

We are holding our 3th annual Anthropology Film Festival at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, and are presently accepting submissions.
The deadline is January 15, 2009 (we will accept late submissions as long as they email us by deadline with their interest). The festival runs May 13-16 in conjunction with the CASCA-AES conference at UBC.
You can find the Call for Submissions at http://anthfilm.anth.ubc.ca/images/2009FilmFestCall.jpg
Download the application form at http://anthfilm.anth.ubc.ca/events.html

will be held in Leeds, 1 – 4 July 2009

For submission conditions, entry forms and awarded prizes please see the attachments or check the RAI website http://www.therai.org.uk/film/festival/index.html or the dedicated Film Festival website www.raifilmfest.org.uk; Here you find as well information about the international conference "Motion in Emotion: The Passions of tourism and Travel, 5 – 6 July 2009.

We invite you to submit your recent productions, released (first screened in public) after 1 January 2006.

The Deadline for Submission is 15 January 2009 (postmark date); please make sure that the preview tapes arrive by 24 January at the latest. Please submit the form and stills by e-mail (festival@therai.org.uk) and send the preview tape (VHS or DVD) separately by post.

20th edition: Celebrating 20 years of Cultural Diversity

June 8-14, 2009 Tropentheater Amsterdam / Center for World Cultures Zuiderpershuis Antwerp

Announcement and Call for Films

BEELD VOOR BEELD is a documentary film festival dealing with cultural diversity. In 2009, we will be celebrating our 20th anniversary. Rooted in visual anthropology, the festival screens documentaries on various (sub-)cultures in a format combining screenings, discussions and seminars on different themes. It offers a meeting place for filmmakers and audiences from different cultural backgrounds. All filmmakers will be present, and much attention is paid to the discussions between them and the audience.
Entry submission is open to every production that either deals with subjects of anthropology, sociology and social issues or fits in with the overall theme.
So films that do not fit in with the overall theme can also be submitted.
A special program of student films will be part of the festival. The section on student films is open to all educational programs on visual anthropology or documentary filmmaking fitting in with the overall format of the festival.

Apart from general film screenings, the 20th edition will have as one of its themes:
(World) Music on Film
We will be focusing on documentaries that put (world) music in a social and cultural context. Special attention will be given to films dealing with the changes within different types of music as a result of the intermingling of cultures and musical styles.

Submission deadline: Friday January 9, 2009

For more information and entry forms: www.beeldvoorbeeld.nl; info@beeldvoorbeeld.nl;
Tel. + 31 20 568 8520

26th October and 1st November 2009

ASTRA FILM FEST is the international documentary film festival based in Sibiu/Romania, with a strong focus on Eastern European production approaching contemporary issues with anthropological sensibility.

ASTRA FILM FEST welcomes documentary films without restriction to theme and length, for the four competition sections:

INTERNATIONAL, EUROPEAN, ROMANIAN, DEBUT.

Films must have cinematographic qualities, artistic commitment and strong presence of the filmmaker's point of view both in form and content. The total sum of Astra Film Festival awards is 25.000 Eu.

The festival is also famous for the intense atmosphere it creates around the screenings, debates and additional events. Special and additional (non-competitive) programmes will be posted on our website soon.

For more information about submitions for Astra Film Fest 2009 competition, please see Entry form and Rules&Regulations attached or at www.astrafilm.ro

Ljubljana, Slovenia, May 18-22, 2009

Deadline for entries and delivery of preview tapes: February 15th, 2009

Call for Entries

Days of Ethnographic film (DEF) is a new festival in the network of CAFFE (Coordination of anthropological film festivals in Europe) organized by Slovene Ethnological Society. The third edition is inviting again the production of visual ethnography in its broadest sense in order to bring face to face different forms of observational cinema generated by both the research's and the filmmaker's interest.
Films made by individual researchers, institutes, museums, university and faculty departments and independent filmmakers are welcome and the student films as well.

The festival has no competition program. There are the following sessions along the main program in the schedule: Retrospective, Guest program, Student films' program and a session of visual footage, displayed by the researcher him(her)self in order to provoke the discussion about his (her) work in progress.

For Entry forms see: http://www.sed-drustvo.si

Contact:
Nasko Kriznar
Audio-Visual Laboratory
ZRC SAZU
Novi trg 2
1000 Ljubljana
SLOVENIA
GSM: +386 41 761 743
E: nasko@zrc-sazu.si

Deadline: November 21st, 2008

The Festival du Film Ethnographique du Québec (FIFEQ) is now in its sixth year! From January 30th to February 1st 2009, approximately one hundred ethnographic films will be shown free of charge in both Montreal and Quebec. The screening of these films will be accompanied by lectures, roundtable discussions and social gatherings.

We are now accepting film submissions until November 21st, 2008.

Two copies of the films should be submitted in DVD format, in either English or French, or containing English or French sub-titles. The films should be sent to the following name and address:

Katherine Romanow, coordinator FIFEQ 2009
Pharmaprix #0042
P.O Box 55155 BP Mackay
1500 Ste-Catherine Street O.
Montreal, Quebec
H3G 1S0

The films should be accompanied by a submission form which can be found at our website:
www.fifeq.ca