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

October 2-6, 2009

Call For Entries

Entry deadline: June 10th, 2009

Since launching Asia's first international ethnographic film festival in 2001, the biennial Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival (TIEFF) has established itself as one of the world's foremost venues for documental and ethnographic films from around the world. Running from October 2nd through October 6th, this year's TIEFF will be held once again in Taipei City, capital of Taiwan. This year's edition "Body and Soul" will take the festival and curious audience into a multi-cultural investigation of medical/alternative healing practices. Possible topics which candidate films draw attention to can include, but are not limited to: Health care in the developing world/Indigenous, traditional, and alternative healing practices/Epidemics and infectious disease, suffering and care, etc. In creating the theme the festival seeks stories and examples all around the world to cultivate common understanding of issues on physical and mental health beyond the confines of traditional medicines, in order to encompass heterogeneous, physical and spiritual practices which shape health care around the world.

In addition to films submitted under the central theme, "Body and Soul" (which is open to all films related to the theme, regardless of the year of production), TIEFF is also calling for entries of unlimited topics that are completed within the past two years (2007-2009), for submission to its "New Vision" section.

TIEFF has become an important fixture in Taiwan's cultural and intellectual life, attracting large audiences of filmgoers, teachers, and students every other year. TIEFF is organized by the Taiwan Association of Visual Ethnography, a non-profit organization dedicated to greater public awareness of documentary and ethnographic films, and co-organized by the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. TIEFF is more than a venue for screening films and videos; it is also a forum for learning, discussion, and exchange. TIEFF considers every film selected to be equally valuable; accordingly, there is no competition section.

All film submissions are handled through our webiste: http://www.tieff.sinica.edu.tw

The festival takes place in Sibiu, Romania, between 26th October and 1st November 2009.

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 the website soon.
Please mind that the deadline for submissions is 1st of May 2009.

See regulations & entry form

Looking forward to receiving your film!

ASTRA FILM
Piata Huet 12, 550182 Sibiu
Tel:+ 40 269-213 442, 210 134
E-mail:aff@astrafilm.ro, dbudrala@astrafilm.ro
Web: www.astrafilm.ro

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

28-30th November 2008 - Ethnographic Muzeum in Torun, Poland

This year's edition is focused on Urban Ahtnropology. During festival, we will present documental films made by multicultural artists. The urban space is the leitmotif. One of the festivals section will absorbed on The New Wave of the Japanese Anthropological Cinema.
"The Aspects" is a yearly anthropological film festival, which aims at exploring various areas of culture. The principle of the festival is to discover and present various relations, phenomena, interactions and mechanisms, which take place within a culture or between cultures.
The main goal of "The Aspects" film festival is to propagate the ideas of intercultural dialogue. The creators of the festival want to draw attention to the subject of cultural dissimilarities, present the audience with the diversity of human experience, diversity of ways of expressing oneself within a society and the world.

For more information please see: http://aspektyfestival.pl

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

www.dialektusfesztival.hu

Budapest, 2009, March 3-8.

Submissions deadline: 2008, October 17

Dialektus is here again, Europe’s most creative and sensitive documentary film competition! The festival was created to present the world’s cultural diversity and show how the world is seen through the eyes of European filmmakers. There is nothing more exciting than human stories!

AIDS in the Ukraine, media hack in the Hungarian press, a Romanian teacher working as an Elvis impersonator, a Belgian anthropologist among the Indians of French Guyana, prisoners escaping from Auschwitz in a Gestapo jeep, oil workers in Azerbaijan, Vietnamese speaking “Czechoslovak”, a Chinese foundry in Germany – just a few of the topics touched upon in films presented at Dialektus in 2008.

And what’s to come in 2009?
We expect yet more variety and surprise. Just how do other people live?

Filmmakers
The festival attracts more and more attention both in Hungary and throughout Europe. Our aim is to maintain our friendly and familiar approach at the same time as promoting the profile of Dialektus, encouraging dialogue between filmmakers from both East and West, and boosting the popularity of the documentary film. If you are a filmmaker and you have a documentary film that was made in 2006 or later, we hope to receive your entry before October 17, 2008!
More about the application: http://www.dialektusfestival.hu/2009/nevezes?lang=en
Are you a notorious latecomer? Do not give up! It is possible to send us your application until 31 October 2008 on the understanding that you must pay a default fee.

Student Filmmakers
The “Student Work” competition category and presentations by invited foreign film schools mean that we expect to see even more young filmmakers in 2009. Students represent a generation fresh to film and full of ideas who will continue this wonderful tradition and bring innovation to this ever-changing genre. Watch out because the competition is pretty tough! 2008 had 61 submissions of which 9 were accepted for competition.
Enter here: http://www.dialektusfestival.hu/2009/nevezes?lang=en
This time you can be late but it will cost you some money! It is possible to send us your application until 31 October 2008 if you accept to be charged for the delay.

Direct access to the application form:
http://www.dialektusfestival.hu/doc/dialektus_entry_form_2009.doc

Future Film Critics
We are going to be holding our first docu-critic workshop in 2009 for young European critics and theoreticians. Recognised critics will introduce those aspects unique to documentaries and their professional appraisal. The aim of this project is to gather and strengthen a group of professionals conversant with the intricacies of the documentary genre.
Apply here: http://www.dialektusfestival.hu/2009/nevezes?lang=en

University Students
An international film festival shouldn’t be missed. Festival films present people, places and possible adventures you may have never considered before as well as taking a new look at subjects explored differently in the past. The festival offers discounts for student groups as well as help in finding affordable accommodation for the duration of the festival. Contact us: info@dialektusfesztival.hu.

Sponsors
Sponsors ensure that Dialektus 2009 offers the array of programmes planned. Those who have joined us so fare have enjoyed great success and helped us to achieve the success we have to date. If you are interested in sponsoring Dialektus, bringing such a rich selection of documentary films to a fascinated audience, then we have web space and other media via which to show your support and enhance your company’s profile. Let’s work together! For more details contact: info@dialektusfesztival.hu.

Palantir Film Visual Anthropological Foundation
H-1163 Budapest, Katoka u. 46.
Tel: +36-1-403-03-52, +36-20-993-40-30
info@dialektusfesztival.hu
www.dialektusfesztival.hu

Submissions are open for the 2008 Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival!
The 2008 Mead Festival will take place in November at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
Criteria for submissions are as follows:
* films must be documentary or experimental non-fiction (including animation and new media)
* production year must be 2006, 2007 or 2008
* films can be any length
* no resubmissions

Special focus for 2008 – films regarding global warming (short, feature-length, animation or new media).
If you’d like to submit your film, please fill out an entry form (available at www.amnh.org/mead) and send a DVD (multi-zone or zone 1 preferred, any zone acceptable) or VHS (PAL or NTSC) to:
Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival
American Museum of Natural History
Central Park West at 79th Street
New York, NY 10024 USA
+1 212.769.5305

There is no entry fee. Entries must be postmarked by April 30, 2008. Entries will not be returned.

If you have questions or need more information, contact us at meadfest@amnh.org or visit our website www.amnh.org/mead.

The 54th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar – Register Today!
The 54th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar will be held June 21-27, 2008 at Colgate University, Hamilton, New York. Guest curator Chi-hui Yang, Director of the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, will program the seminar titled “The Age of Migration.” Register to join national and international media artists, critics, scholars, curators, librarians, and students for a week of intensive film viewing and impassioned discussion in a relaxed retreat environment. The early registration deadline is May 1, 2008. For more information about the 2008 Flaherty Seminar, registration, and fellowships please visit www.flahertyseminar.org.
The Age of Migration: From the urban landscapes of Asia, to the conflict zones of the Middle East, to the multi-cultural societies of Europe, the United States and beyond, unprecedented migrations of exiles, soldiers, laborers, and adoptees intersect with the legacies of war, global capital, and terror. Through film and video screenings and in-depth discussions, "The Age of Migration," the 54th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, will probe how hybrid documentaries, video blogs, and speculative histories have become connective tissues which collapse physical distances and accentuate emotional connections. Join us as we map these modern migration patterns and explore the relationship between conflict, movement and transmission.

2008 Mead Traveling Festival 2008 – Bring the Mead Festival to your community!
The 2008 Margaret Mead Traveling Festival is now available for booking. This year, program themes include the politics of water, gender and sexuality in Iran, immigration and tourism, and more. Full descriptions of all the programs can be found on our website www.amnh.org/mead
The Traveling Festival is comprised of six thematic programs. Venues can rent any or all of the Traveling Festival programs and rental includes background and promotional information on films, still images, preview videos for publicity purposes, and a guide for conducting film festivals and screenings. The presentation format is in video, in either VHS or DVD. The Traveling Festival can be rented for a weekend marathon or for up to
six weeks.
If you are interested in hosting the Traveling Festival, or have any questions, please contact travelfest@amnh.org or visit our website www.amnh.org/mead (click on “Traveling Festival”).

June 4-8 2008, Tropentheater Amsterdam
June 5-8 2008, Center for World Cultures Zuiderpershuis Antwerp

Call for Films deadline extended to: March 14th

BEELD VOOR BEELD is a documentary film festival dealing with culture and representation.
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.
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 18th edition will have as one of its themes:
The Fringes of Europe: Romania and Turkey
The admission to the European Union of Romania on the 1st of January 2007 and the possible admission of Turkey have sparked off the discussion about the identity of Europe and the supposed threat these two countries on the fringes of Europe pose to this imagined identity. Striking in the discussion is the often scarce knowledge and the pre-conceived ideas about these societies that exist in the rest of Europe. Beeld voor Beeld wants to counterbalance this lack of knowledge by showing films that give an inside view of these societies.

Submission deadline: 14th of March 2008

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

Eddy Appels
Festival director
Website: www.beeldvoorbeeld.nl

BEELD VOOR BEELD is an initiative of SAVAN (Foundation for Visual Anthropology in The Netherlands)

in «Khudozhestvennyi» Movie Theater and Lomonosov Moscow State University

Russian Institute for Cultural Studies / Lomonosov Moscow State University / N.N. Miklukho-Maklai Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology / National Association for Audiovisual Archives / with the support of the Federal Agency of Culture and Cinematography

The festival will focus on films in visual anthropology with a special emphasis on those that were made after January 1, 2006. The festival aims at promoting wide international co-operation in the field of visual anthropоlogy. The debut film competition is one of the major events of the festival. The festival addresses filmmakers, scholars and viewers.
The main aims of the Festival include:
- supporting various forms of cultural self-expression by means of visual anthropology;
- seeking ways of resolving the problem of tolerance and of ensuring a dialogue between representatives of different cultures;
- screening new films by directors-anthropologists from all over the world;
- conducting the debut film competition;
- introducing new trends in visual anthropology;
- promoting anthropological, ethnographic and cultural studies films with the purpose of showing them to a wide audience of younger viewers.

The festival program includes two interrelated events: screenings within the Main Program and the Debut Film Competition, and conference «Audiovisual Anthropology: Theory and Practice».
We invite:
a) filmmakers representing anthropology and related areas. Debutants are invited to participate in the debut film competition.
We are interested in receiving:
1) a DVD-copy of the film with English subtitles;
2) a transcript of the soundtrack in Russian and/or English (electronic copy);
3) registration form in Russian and/or English (hard copy and electronic copy).

b) experts dealing with problems and the material of audiovisual anthropology in the fields of science, education, art, informational technologies and mass media.
We are interested in receiving:
1) a copy of the paper to be delivered at the conference (electronic copy; 11 double-spaced ms. pages (20.000 characters with spaces));
2) application form including abstract (100 words) in Russian and/or English (hard copy or electronic copy).

Submission deadline for applications and films: March 31, 2008

We regret that we will not be able to return the submitted materials.

To post films and applications please use the following address:
Russia, Moscow 119992, Leninskiye Gory, GSP-2, Educational Building 1, Moscow State University, 4th floor, room 446, ZNIT FDO, c/o Visual Anthropology Festival.

Address in Russian : Москва, 119992, Ленинские горы, ГСП-2, I учебный корпус МГУ, 4 этаж, комн. 446, ЦНИТ ФДО, Фестиваль визуальной антропологии.

Contact information:
e-mail: mifva4@gmail.com
Phone: +7 916 069 7467, Vitaly Semenov
Fax : +7 495 959 10 17
http://visant.etnos.ru/
http://community.livejournal.com/visanthro_rus/

PocketVisions is calling for film submissions for the expanded London International Documentary Festival (LIDF) - A Conversation in Film, 2008. The festival is presented in association with the London Review of Books, and with the support of the British Museum, Curzon Cinemas, Barbican and the UK Office of the European Parliament. 2008 sees a continued association with The Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival (New York). The LIDF will run for 6 days between Monday 31st March, and Saturday, April 5th, 2008.
The call for submissions goes out to an international field of applicants. All successful applicants will be invited to be present at the LIDF. We are looking to support new and innovative filmmaking talent, and to ask filmmakers to participate in a series of intertwining �conversations� to be run alongside the screenings. These �conversations� will involve academics, journalists, policy-makers, NGOs, and other cultural commentators.
The LIDF is calling for documentary films produced between January 1st 2006 and December 6th 2007, and is particularly, although not exclusively, interested in films that fall within the following categories:

> Environment
> Human Rights
> Memory/history
> Ethnography/anthropology
> Politics/Philosophy/Economics
> Heritage and the Arts
> Other social and development issues

Submission Procedure: Film-makers can enter their films, pay entry fees and find out how to submit their DVD or VHS preview copy at http://www.lidf.co.uk
Once the on-line submission has been made entrants will receive a confirmation email and a unique Entry Reference Number

Deadline for Submissions: 6th December 2007
Late entries accepted until 30th December with penalty (see regulations). Films can only be returned if the "return fee" is included in the submission.
Selected films from the LIDF will be automatically submitted for selection to the Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival, November 2008.

The right to enter the Festival is granted to all legal entities and individuals who meet the following criteria:

- that the submitted film presents a part of the traditional culture or the creative work and that it treats subjects of importance for ethnology and anthropology;

- that the ethnological film has been produced no longer than two years preceding the Festival. The Festival Council and the Selection Committee may decide to present films made prior to this date;

- that the film has been made in one of electronic or digital formats, provided that the technical quality of the material is satisfactory. All participants are required to submit the application by October, 15. A VHS tape or DVD of the film should accompany the application, while the BETA SP or DVD of the film, needed for the festival screening, should arrive by November, 10. Each film should be submitted on a separate copy, to the following address: ETNOGRAFSKI MUZEJ U BEOGRADU “ZA FESTIVAL”, Studentski trg 13 (PF 357), 11 000 Beograd, Srbija,

- all data specified in the Festival entry form must be included;

- participants must provide written authorization (by signing the entry form) to the Ethnographic Museum for archiving copies of their films in the Museum collection for informative, educative and research purposes. Further public commercial use of films by the Ethnographic Museum is prohibited ,

- films produced outside English-speaking countries must have English subtitles on the print or should be dubbed in English (this requirement does not pertain to amateur independent production films);

- filmmakers should submit one or more stills for the festival catalogue and documentation;

- upon the work of the Selection Committee is completed, films cannot be withdrawn from the Festival,

- the registration fee of 40 Euros for each participant whose film/films entered the competition of the festival, given his/her personal presence at the festival. The registration fee will be paid at the booking-office of the Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade.

Web site

The Ethnographic Festival of Montreal comes alive through the collaboration of students from anthropology departments across Montreal and Quebec, who host the event. The event is dedicated to showing ethnographic film from around the world, in celebration of visual anthropology; social and cultural documentary film. The festival aims to encourage the emergence of new ethnographic filmmakers while providing an opportunity for the general and academic public to gain knowledge of issues of cultural representation and exchange; on the ways ethnography is used to research, educate and reflect. Our goal is to promote debate regarding the value, ethics and pertinence of visual media, in the study and reflection of culture and society.

Web Site

Call for Films
PocketVisions is calling for film submissions for the expanded London International Documentary Festival (LIDF) - A Conversation in Film, 2008. The festival is presented in association with the London Review of Books, and with the support of the British Museum, Curzon Cinemas and the UK Office of the European Parliament. 2008 sees a continued association with The Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival (New York).
The LIDF is scheduled to run for 6 days between Monday 31st March, and Saturday, April 5th, 2008. The opening night gala presentation and reception will take place at the British Museum, as will the closing day when three screens will run simultaneously all day in the Clore Educational Centre beneath the Great Court. Various other London venues are involved and full and final venue details will be posted shortly.
The call for submissions goes out to an international field of applicants. All successful applicants will be invited to be present at the LIDF. We are looking to support new and innovative filmmaking talent, and to ask filmmakers to participate in a series of intertwining �conversations� to be run alongside the screenings. These �conversations� will involve academics, journalists, policy-makers, NGOs, and other cultural commentators.
The LIDF is calling for documentary films produced between January 1st 2006 and December 6th 2007, and is particularly, although not exclusively, interested in films that fall within the following categories:

* Environment
* Human Rights
* Memory/history
* Ethnography/anthropology
* Politics/Philosophy/Economics
* Heritage and the Arts
* Other social and development issues

Submission Procedure: Film-makers can enter their films, pay entry fees and find out how to submit their DVD or VHS preview copy at http://www.lidf.co.uk
Once the on-line submission has been made entrants will receive a confirmation email and a unique Entry Reference Number.
Deadline for Submissions: 6th December 2007
Late entries accepted until 30th December with penalty (see regulations). Films can only be returned if the �return fee� is included in the submission.
Selected films from the LIDF will be automatically submitted for selection to the Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival, November 2008.
For further information or questions email: info@pocketvisions.co.uk

Call for Entries
About 50 films will be screened during the festival week.
We welcome film entries from all over the world, especially the
independent films which are not part of mainstream commercial
filmmaking and which develop an anthropological, analytical approach
to cultures and societies. The priority will be given to documentary
films, but also other genres (fiction films, animation) will be considered as part of the programme. We also encourage submitting
student films.

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. If sufficient funding becomes available, the festival can
partly cover the travel costs and/or the accommodation. Each year, the
festival becomes a warm and lively community of filmmakers and
audience. The event is open to everybody, including creative, curious
and knowledgeable filmmakers, scholars, students and all others, who
care about the world around them and love the films bringing this
world closer to them.

In addition to the film program, the festival presents retrospectives,
round tables, workshops, exibitions and special programs. The festival
has no competition program.

Contact and submissions:
Pille Runnel,
Taavi Tatsi
WORLDFILM 2008
Estonian National Museum
Veski 32
Tartu 51014
Estonia

Deadline for entries and delivery of preview tapes: October 15th 2007

Please enclose:
- copy of the film on VHS or DVD
- a signed entry form (download at www.worldfilm.ee)
- synopsis in English, abt. 200 words (both print and electronic version)
- short biography/filmography of the director (both print and
electronic version)

Conditions of participation:
- The film production date should be later than January 1st 2005.
- Suitable screening formats (PAL): Betacam SP (2 audio channels),
DVCAM, Mini-DV
- Original version with English subtitles

Regulations and entry form available at the festival website:
www.worldfilm.ee