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”).

NUORO (Italy) 15-21 September 2008

From the 15th to 21st September the Sardinian International Ethnographic Film Festival (SIEFF), will be held in Nuoro, this international ethnographic film festival is organised by the Istituto Superiore Etnografico of Sardinia.
The Festival, which is a biennial event, has always adopted a specific theme: “The Shepherd and His Image” (1982); “The World Upside Down or Carnival and Controlled Transgression” (1984); “The Wedding. Marriage Rituals in Traditional Societies” (1986); “Women and Work in Traditional Societies” (1988); “Islands” (1990); “Mountains” (1992); “Men and Rivers” (1994); “Magic and Medicine in Traditional Societies” (1996); “Music and Rituals” (1998); “Children” (2000); “Food” (2002); “Tourism/Tourisms” (2004).
Since the 2006 edition the Festival has changed its previously traditional characteristic of focusing on a single theme, concentrating its programme instead on a selection of recently made documentary films with an ethno-anthropological prospective, special attention being given to those works principally concerned with themes that inevitably bring us back to the representation of contemporary life. This year the Festival intends to focus its interests particularly on the following themes: the production and circulation of folk music globally; spirituality and transcendence in a world dominated by the effects of globalisation; ecoanthropology; tourism.
The works chosen for the official programme of the Festival will compete for the following awards:
A. “Grazia Deledda” Prize for the Best Film;
B. Prize for Best Film, set and produced in a Mediterranean country;
C. Prize for Best Film by a Sardinian director;
D. Prize for Most Innovative Film.
Apart from films in competition the Festival will also present films out of competition. A whole day will be dedicated to a specific theme, with screenings of films out of competition and conferences with experts and academics from Italy and abroad. The films will be accompanied by a brief presentation and, as a general rule, commented on and discussed with their directors.
The projections, talks, conferences and discussions will be served by simultaneous translations in Italian and English.

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Entry Rules
Entry Form
For further information please write or telephone:
Istituto Superiore Etnografico della Sardegna, via Papandrea, 6 - 08100 Nuoro (Italy)
Tel. +39 0784 242900 - Fax +39 0784 37484
E-mail: rassegna.sieff@isresardegna.org
Web: www.isresardegna.org

The main theme of this year’s festival is TRANSFORMATIONS.
Everything changes constantly: cultures, societies, environment, climate change and transform in surprising ways, and these cut across the known and the unknown history of the planet. Reasons for transformations can be environmental, technological, economical, cultural, social and political.
We are looking for films which show these transformations in human life.
The Viscult Festival exemplifies the transformation of the film festival into a contemporary format: the festival was the first to broadcast its film programme as Internet streaming for everybody all over the world!
Please, send a DVD copy of your film to us before 10 June, 2008, and join the filmmakers transforming the world with their films.
The Viscult Festival 2008 will also have subthemes which will be announced later.
During the Viscult Festival there will be international lectures of Visual Anthropology in cooperation with the University of Joensuu and the North Karelia University of Applied Sciences.
Student Films are very welcome!

Send your film to:

Viscult Festival
Länsikatu 15
80110 Joensuu
Finland

More information:
info@viscult.net

and
Pekka Silvennoinen
pekka.silvennoinen@netmail.fi
gsm +358 40 7236413

Paris 15-24 Mars 2008

Web Site

Download the program | Programme en français

Call for Films

We invite submissions for the 2nd Annual Anthropology Film Festival at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC. This intimate festival takes place March 7&8 on the university campus. Our theme is new trends in anthropological film, with a focus on collaborative production. A jury prize for best film in category will be awarded.

The entry deadline is February 8, 2008. For more information, contacts and submission forms, visit us at http://anthfilm.anth.ubc.ca

The organising committee of the Québec International Ethnographic Film Festival, made up of students from Concordia University, McGill University, Université Laval and Université de Montréal, invites you to enter your ethnographic film for our fifth annual edition. Our bilingual festival will take place on the campuses of all four universities on January 25, 26 and 27, 2008.

Web Site

Call for Entries

DEF is a new member of CAFFE (Coordination of anthropological film festivals in Europe), organized by Slovene Ethnological Society. The second 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, independent filmmakers are welcome and the student films as well.
The festival has no competition program. There are the following sessions in the schedule:
Retrospective, Guest program, Student films program and a session of raw footage displayed by the researcher him(her)self in order to provoke the discussion about his(her) work in progress.

Deadline for entries and delivery of preview tapes: March 15th, 2008

Regulations and entry form available at the festival website:
http://www.sed-drustvo.si/

Contact:
Nasko Kriznar
Audio-Visual Laboratory
ZRC SAZU
Novi trg 2
1000 Ljubljana
SLOVENIA
E: nasko@zrc-sazu.si
fax: +386 1 425 77 52

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

http://www.gieff.de/

The festival promotes documentary cinema with a special emphasis on new films, videos or interactive media (published after 1.1.2005) dealing with socio-cultural processes in a wide sense of the term.
The festival is open to all filmmakers, but especially those coming from anthropology, sociology, folklore and neighbouring disciplines. It provides a great opportunity for international co-operation in Visual Anthropology and documentary filmmaking.
The student film competition is one of the central events of the festival.
The festival addresses film authors, producers, distributors, and viewers.
It aims for discussions at the screenings and afterwards between the various groups present to promote the intercultural dialogue on the different aspects of film work.
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.

Göttingen International Ethnographic Film Festival e.V.

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

MARGARET MEAD FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL

www.amnh.org/mead