15-23 September 2012
Call for Films

Info: http://www.isresardegna.it/

22-25 November 2012

Call For Films

Festival of Visual Anthropology ASPEKTY in Poland is pleased to announce submission for the 5th edition of festival. Submissions are free and open for every documentary films from any field of ethnographic, anthropological, analytical approach to cultures and societies. Festival has audience competition program Submitted films must have been completed after year 2008 Entries Deadline: 1st July , 2012 Films Delivery Deadline: 31st July, 2012 5th Festival of Visual Anthropology ASPEKTY 2012 Toruń, 22nd - 25th November 2012 Ethnographic Museum in Torun, Poland ASPEKTY is a yearly anthropological film festival, which aims in exploring various areas of culture. The principle of the festival is to discover and present various relations, phenomena, interactions and mechanisms within cultures For more information and submission forms, rules please visit http://aspektyfestival.pl/en or contact us: festival (AT) aspektyfestival.pl http://www.facebook.com/aspekty

http://www.jer-cin.org.il/Education/Call%20for%20Entries.aspx

The Jerusalem Cinematheque in cooperation with the Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, is happy to announce the Second Anthropological Film Festival.
The Festival is inviting directors and distributors to send films made between 2011 to 2012. The Festival is interested in films with ethnographic orientation which deal with a variety of issues concerning the complexity of the cultural, social and political life of individuals and communities around the world.
The Festival will also be happy to receive films made in departments for visual anthropology. The Festival aims to bring together filmmakers, academics, students and producers, in an attempt to promote discussions and debates amongst ethnographic film practitioners and their many public.
Please send the screeners to the Jerusalem Cinematheque by June 1st, 2012 to:

Jerusalem Cinematheque - Israel Film Archive
c\o Films and Anthropology
P.O.B 8561
Jerusalem 91083
Israel

kedar.nurit@gmail.com

CALL FOR VIDEO, PHOTOS, SOUNDS AND PERFORMANCE
(Deadline: 20 February 2012)

The Ass. “Contro-Sguardi”, in collaboration with the Anthropological Section of the Department Man and Environment (Uomo e Territorio) of the University of Perugia (Italy), the city council of Perugia, Informagiovani and the cultural association Macadam, promotes the fourth edition of “Contro-Sguardi: International Anthropological Film Festival”. Theme of the year 2012: “For a culture of work”.
With this call we would like to solicitate the submission of documentary films, fictions, ethnographic, photographic exhibitions, and proposals for theatrical and musical performances related to the topic in question.
Since 2008 the festival, founded to bring together works of anthropological cinema, is open to diverse forms of visual representations. Since last year the festival became biennial, and each edition will concentrate on a specific thematic topic related to socio-cultural dynamics and contemporary societies. Contro-Sguardi 2012 proposes several kinds of differently structured workshops and debate sessions on a broad range of topics related to the “culture of work”. The aim of this theme is to reflect on the crisis of current economic and social models which progressively shrink the spaces of work, especially of young people, with many repercussions for personal and social life. Specifically, with “Culture of Work” we mean the multiplicity of social contexts, anthropological, economic, political and emotional that define work as a practice, knowledge, and existential status of the human being through which it is realized as well for self-determination.
In the awareness of social research, which increasingly requires a dialogical and experimental comparison of new techniques and technologies with their visual productions, “the Festival” opens a Call for video aimed at filmmakers, students, researchers and teachers.
The video participants at the event will be divided into two categories 1) “Competition” divided into “Documentary” and “Fiction”; 2) “Festival”, which will make the text of the regulation Contro-Sguardi festival 2012.
Partecipants at the "Competition" section are eligible for a award and a short list of selected films will be screen at “Festival do Filme Etnografico do Recife 2012” to be held in Recife in Brazil and Contro-Sguardi is twinned.

Info: www.controsguardi.com
controsguardi@gmail.com
controsguardi.blogspot.com

M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University & N.N.Mikhukho-Maklai Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences are happy to invite everybody to VI Moscow International Festival of VisualAnthropology “Mediating camera” at the end of September – beginning October 2012.
All films of relevant thematic and shot after 2008 can participate in the Festival Program.
Though the main purpose of the festival remained the same - it’s propagation of ideas and products of visual anthropology in humanitarian and pedagogical media and demonstration of its capabilities to the students, scholars and everybody engaged in various socio-cultural activities, organizers realize highest importance of the man behind camera who form the image of the culture on the reel and with special warm welcome movies uncovering this emotional & ethical connection between a man with the camera & culture under his investigation.
Besides screenings of experienced and famous authors there will be a special debut competition for those authors who’ve done their first movies. All screenings will be accompanied by discussions with directors & anthropologists. Besides festival program you will be able to participate in thematic seminars and science conference where directors & scholars will be able to share experience of using visual anthropological materials in studies & cultural practices.
The deadline for applications and films: March 1, 2012. But we always appreciate your ability to send them as soon as possible. Selection results will be announced not later than on June 1, 2012, we hope this will allow most of selected authors participate in the festival personally. All submitted materials won’t be return, but we promise to keep them in our archive for non-commercial usage only.
The Festival Organization Committee is considering the opportunities of partial covering of the participants' expenses. Please, find technical requirements for materials & registration form on our sites.

Contacts:
E-mail: mediating.camera@gmail.com
Phone. +7 (495) 939 44 41, +7 (495) 938 1820
Fax: +7 (495) 938 06 00

visant.etnos.ru
visant-mediating.ru

9–13 May, 2012

Call for Films

The festival promotes documentary cinema with a special emphasis on new films, videos or interactive media (published after 1.1.2009) dealing with socio-cultural processes in a wide sense of the term.
The festival is open to all filmmakers, but especially those coming from an anthropology, sociology, folklore, history etc. background . It provides a great opportunity for international exchange of ideas and co-operation in documentary filmmaking.

Web site: http://www.gieff.de/

6-8 October 2011

http://www.pkey.fi/viscult/2011/ohjelma.php

Viscult Festival is going to be organized for the 11th time in Joensuu, Finland, at Cinema Tapio from 6th to 8th of October. Most of the films and discussions are available live on Internet, as usual.

And we can proudly present our national and international quests.
Festival films present all continents and people living in different cultures. The films are good examples of the questions raised by slavery past and present from different point of views.
According the values of Viscult, these films provide information and by that lessen prejudices.

Films have been chosen according the main theme “Slavery - from oppression to resistance” . This year the festival will show also the most significant documentary films made in Finland year 2011.

This year Viscult cooperates with Displaced festival held in Helsinki by Siemenpuu foundation, www.displaced.info.

Documentary Film Maker Jouko Aaltonen will open the 11th Viscult Festival.

Welcome!

Pekka Silvennoinen
Festival Director
pekka.silvennoinen@netmail.fi

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Viscult
The Regional Film Center of North Karelia
Länsikatu 15
FIN-80110 Joensuu, Finland

3-5 May 2012

Call for entries

ETNOFILm - an international festival of ethnographic film organized by the Ethnographic Museum of Istria is now accepting submissions for the official section of the programme. Applications for the 4th edition of the festival are open to documentary films employing innovative approaches in depicting cultural phenomena and the ethnography of the everyday. The festival will take place from 3-5 May 2012 in Rovinj, Croatia. Apart from live discussions with guest authors, the audience will be able to enjoy a visual anthropology workshop, lectures on recent issues in visual-anthropology, as well as an exhibition and a concert as part of the side programme. The deadline for all submissions is 20 November 2011. Download the application form from

http://etnofilm.com/Prijava.aspx

AFF is a major event in the European community of documentary film. The Festival is a meeting point for documentary filmmakers from all over the world, promotes the production of quality non-fiction film in Romania and in the region.
AFF is dedicated to showing realities of our world as perceived and interpreted by committed creative documentary filmmakers, and to facilitating open debates with the audience, as well as among professionals.
Over the years, AFF’s interactive, informal and friendly style has facilitated a fertile ground of dialogue among filmmakers and public, professionals, a communication that attracted a large number of true fans.
AFF is the ideal place for filmmakers to test their film with an active public. In October 2011, you are welcome to enjoy once more the ASTRA FILM spirit.

AFF .11th COMPETITION
We welcome creative documentaries produced since 2008, in one of the four competitional sections: INTERNATIONAL Section (documentary films made outside Europe); EUROPEAN Section (documentary films made about Europe);
ROMANIAN DOCUMENTARIES (documentary films about Romania);
STUDENT DOCS (documentaries made as part of a film school, documentary film course)

AFF does not select animations, experimental films, re-enactments, and docu-dramas. As a rule, AFF does not pay screening fees for the films in competition. The directors of the selected films are invited to the Festival for the whole period (accommodation expenses covered by the organizers).
You can submit your film at:

http://astrafilm.kalendasoft.com/entryform/en/submission.aspx

AFF .11th SHOWCASES various non-competitive programs related to documentary film: master classes, regional focus, and good archaic music to complete the well known Astra Film Fest atmosphere.


Astra Film Sibiu

Piata Huet No. 12, 550182 - Sibiu, Romania
Tel/Fax: +4 0269 210 134
Email: aff@astrafilm.ro | Submissions 2011: submission@astrafilm.ro
website: www.astrafilm.ro

June 7 - 12, 2011 Tropentheater Amsterdam / Museum Volkenkunde Leiden

ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR FILMS
BEELD VOOR BEELD is a documentary film festival dealing with cultural diversity. 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.

web site

March 7 – 11, 2011 Ljubljana, Slovenia

Festival on modern visual ethnography. The production of visual ethnography in its broadest sense is welcome in order to bring face to face different forms of observational cinema generated by both the research's and the filmmaker's interest.

Submission Deadline: December 1, 2010

Contact: Person : Audio-visual Laboratory, Institute of ethnology, Scientific Research Centre of Slovene Academy od Sciences and Arts, Novi trg 2, SLO-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia, Tel. +386 1 470 63 43, Fax. +386 1 425 77 52 , E-Mail : nasko@zrc-sazu.si

http://www.def.si/

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

5-15 May 2011

Call for Films

Text: The London International Documentary Festival (LIDF) in association with the London Review of Books is calling for submissions. The call is open and international. All subject matter is considered. Short and Feature length films are accepted. First time and established filmmakers all welcome. Films must be produced after January 1st 2009.
The LIDF is the UK's largest independent documentary festival. Since 2007 the festival has worked to ensure that London is host to exciting, diverse, challenging and inspiring films from every corner of the globe.
The festival is committed to providing the highest quality platform for international documentaries and their directors. It does this by working with globally recognised partners and venues, such as the British Museum, the Barbican Centre, and the TATE modern. It also provides a year-round programme of screenings and other events.
The LIDF 2011 is scheduled to run for 10 days between 5 May to 15 May 2011.
For full details, Frequently Asked Questions, and the On-Line Entry Form please go to: www.lidf.co.uk.
Deadline for Submissions: 1st December 2010. Late entries accepted until 30th December 2010 with additional penalty fee (see regulations).

Web Site

Perugia (Italy), November 2010

Web Site

Early bird registration till 12th of April

The programme you can find on the Internet
http://www.gieff.de/

The festival presents the most recent productions of ethnographic films and acts as a platform for a dialogue between anthropology and documentary filmmaking.
The Festival is a meeting point of young students of anthropology, sociology and media studies, who are interested in the use of film as research method, mode of publishing and communicating research results.
56 presentations were selected, 22 for the student film section, 34 for the main festival. The films are coming from more than 30 countries representing people in 33 countries. Thematic themes are: Cultural Heritage, Globalisation, Eastern Europe, India, and Africa.
The student film competition is one of the central events of the festival.

Göttingen International Ethnographic Film Festival e.V.

event@gieff.de
phone: +49/551/5024-170
fax: +49/551/5024-322

The Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival is pleased to announce that we are open for submissions to our 2010 Festival!
The Mead Fest considers a range of documentary films and videos, including: experimental films, essay films, animation, and new media. Productions must have been completed within the last three years.

Entry Deadlines:
Early Deadline: March 31, 2010
Final Deadline: May 3, 2010

For more information on submission requirements and other details, please check out the guidelines and Mead FAQs on our website. Pass this on to your colleagues, friends, neighbors, students, and resident filmmakers!

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

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