2011 PROGRAMME
Around the World in 90 Films
Plan your days! Explore the full film and sessions programme with prize screenings, workshops, special events. Consult the interactive map of film locations in 38 countries.
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FILM PRIZES AND AWARDS
The Royal Anthropological Institute is pleased to announce that the following Film Prizes have been awarded at the 12th RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film, London, 23rd - 26th June 2011.
FORMER RAI FESTIVALS
11th RAI Film Festival, 2009
CTCC, Leeds Metropolitan University
10th RAI Film Festival, 2007
GCVA, The University of Manchester
7th RAI Film Festival, 2000
SOAS, University of London
Eight Ladies #303
14:00 hrs, Friday 24th June, Roberts G08
Director / Anthropologist: Dena Curtis
Year of Release: 2011
Duration: 22 mins
Country of Production: Australia
Location: Central Australia (Indigenous Australian)
Language: Alyawarra (English sub)
Production: CAAMA Productions
The eight ladies in this film come from Alyawarr Country in the Sandover River region in central Australia, about 250kms north of Alice Springs. The filmmakers joined their five day journey into the bush to hunt the echidna and to gather bush foods such as bush potato. As they hunt together and as they sit around their campfire at night they talk about the old days and how life has changed. Filmed in an observational style, this gentle and reflective film is a moving revelation of the woman’s sense of oneness with their country and their sense of maintaining a lifestyle from the old days before the white man came.