Attention Documentary Filmmakers: Mead Festival Seeks Submissions

摘要

African thumb-piano players, Laotian bomb technicians, primate scientists in Abkhazia, prostitutes in Phnom Penh, Manhattan pre-schoolers-these are just a few of the unusual subjects explored in the most recent annual Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival at the American Museum of Natural History. Submissions are now open for this year's festival, to be held November 12-15, 2009.rnThe Mead was begun in 1976 as an exhibition of anthropologists' recordings and has evolved into a world-renowned exploration of the art of documentary, encompassing a broad range of styles: documentary feature films, indigenous community media, animation, and experimental non-fiction. The 2008 festival opened with the New York premiere of the newly restored In the Land of the Head Hunters, a silent melodrama produced in 1914 by Edward S. Curtis and accompanied by a live orchestra. Many of the innovative films featured in the Museum's three-day fall festival continue on to venues throughout the United States and abroadrnas part of the traveling program.