Panels and Workshops
The festival includes a lively strand of workshop alongside the screening programme. Details are available on the following workshops/panels:
Ethnographic and Colonial Cinema Day
Interwar Travelogues: Historical footage and Visual Anthropology
Audio-Visual based Thesis: Experiences from Practice
Roundtable on Broadcasting and Distribution
Catering for Aliens: History, Hospitality and other Contact Zones
Participatory Youth Film workshop
Meeting of the Visual Anthropology Network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists
Visit to the new Leeds City Museum: Using film in the Anthropology collection
About this Festival
Sponsored by the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain & Ireland (RAI) since 1985, it is an itinerant festival that moves biennially from one university host to another, in association with local community and cultural organisations.
The festival was held from Wednesday July 1st to Saturday July 4th 2009, and included over 50 hours of screenings of new films, a major international conference, and a targeted selection of events focusing on anthropological ethics in filmmaking, youth participatory film, and archiving ethnographic film.
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Our Sponsors
The Festival gratefully acknowledges sponsorship from: