Schedule of Screenings and Speakers

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Friday, April 27th

6:00 PM (JUST ADDED!)
Quand Les Hommes Pleurent. ... 57 mins....Yasmine Kassari
CBA, 19 F Avenue des Arts, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgique, cba@skynet.be


7:15 PM (click here for Dr. Balicki's colloquium at UT)

A Month in the Life of Ephtim D ......56 minutes ......Asen Balikci

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Documentary Educational Resources, 101 Morse St., Watertown, MA 02472-2554
docued@der.org

Speakers:
Asen Balikci - Anthropologist; filmmaker
Robert Fernea -
Professor Emeritus, UT- Department of Anthropology



Saturday, April 28th
Screenings begin at
11:30 AM - All times are approximate

 

11:30 AM
Of Men and Mares.... 90 minutes ....Metje Postma
Job Film Sumatra Straat 59 1094 LP, Amsterdam, The Netherlands postmam@fsw.leidenuniv.nl



1:00 PM

100 Years Greenland on Film .....60 minutes .....Werner Sperschneider
Institut fur den Wissenschaftlichen Film Nonnestieg 72, D-37075 Gottingen, Germany ulrich.roters@iwf.de

2:00 PM

Domov....38 minutes....Rosie Read r.j.read@stud.man.ac.uk

3:00 PM

Dhiava - The Autumn Journey.... 50 minutes ....Tim Salmon & David J. Hope
20 Belitha Villas, London N1 1PD, UK
US distributor: Documentary Educational Resources, 101 Morse St., Watertown, MA 02472-2554
docued@der.org

4:00 PM

Oyakata: The Master.... 37 minutes ....Aya Domenig d.aya@excite.com

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5:00 PM
Hosay Trinidad ....42 minutes ....John Bishop & Frank Korom
Documentary Educational Resources ,101 Morse St. ,Watertown, MA 02472-2554 docued@der.org

Click here for article on Hosay


6:00 PM
Dongba He.... 32 minutes ....Bao Jiang & Ai Juhong
Institut fur den Wissenschaftlichen Film Nonnestieg 72, D-37075, Gottingen, Germany ulrich.roters@iwf.de


6:30 -- 7:00 BREAK


7:00 PM
The Bride Who Wouldn't Smile.... 8 minutes ....Camilla Nielsson
Dept. of Anthropology New York University, 25 Waverly Place, New York, NY 10003 cn233@is8.nyu.edu

7:15 PM

Divorce Iranian Style ....80 minutes ....Ziba Mir-Hosseini & Kim Longinotto

Ziba Mir-Hosseini.. Kim Longinotto ..

Channel 4/Vixen Films 13 Aubert Park, London N5 1TL, UK kim@tgraham.demon.co.uk
Article and info on Divorce Iranian Style

Speaker:
Elizabeth Fernea -
Professor Emeritus, UT Department of English; filmmaker



Sunday, April 29th

Screenings begin at 12:00 Noon - All times are approximate

 

12:00 Noon
Bridewealth for a Goddess .....72 minutes..... Chris Owen
The Film Department, Inst. of Papua New Guinea Studies , P.O. Box 1432 Boroko, NCD, Papua New Guinea ipngs@global.net.pg


1:15 PM
A Mysterious Death ......50 minutes ......John Bulmer & Sarah Errington
Double E Productions , The Manse, New St. Chulmleigh, Devon EX 18 7DB, UK sarah@doubleeprods.f9.co.uk


2:15 PM
**Kafi's Story....53 minutes....Arthur Howes & Amy Hardie
California Newsreel , 149 Ninth Street, San Francisco, CA 94103 Phone: 415.621.6196 Fax: 415.621.6522

This special screening will take place immediately prior to Nuba Conversations (see below) to illustrate the enormous and dramatic changes in Nuba lifeways due to the Civil War that has devastated the country in the ten year interval between the making of these two films


3:05 PM
Nuba Conversations
.... 55 minutes ....Arthur Howes & Amy Hardie
California Newsreel , 149 Ninth Street, San Francisco, CA 94103 Phone: 415.621.6196 Fax: 415.621.6522
4:30 PM
Tiger's Apprentice
....57 minutes ....M. Trinh Nguyen
Taro Root Films 1918 Lake Shore Ave, #53 Oakland, CA 94606 trinh@tarorootfilms.com

WINNER: BASIL WRIGHT FILM AWARD 2000 RAI Festival of Ethnographic Film


5:45 PM
Earl's Canoe: A Traditional Ojibwe Craft
....27 minutes ....Tom Vennum & Charles Webber
Documentary Educational Resources, 101 Morse St. ,Watertown, MA 02472-2554 docued@der.org

6:30 -- 7:00 BREAK


7:00 PM

American Gypsy: A Stranger in Everybody's Land ....79 minutes..... Jasmine Dellal

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Little Dust Productions, 104 West 14th St., Suite #4, New York, NY 10011, (212)-228-7777 film@americangypsy.com

Speakers:
Jasmine Dellal -
Filmmaker


The festival is made possible by generous assistance from these sponsors and associates:

University of Texas

 Office of the Dean, College of Liberal Arts  Department of Anthropology
 Center for African & African American Studies  Department of Radio, Television and Film
 Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies  Center for Asian Studies
 Center for Asian-American Studies (Barbara Jann, Admin. Assoc)  Department of American Studies
 Center for Middle Eastern Studies  Center for Women's Studies

Austin

Austin Film Society..,,..,,,,..Cinematexas2001.



Film Festival Program Committee:

Elizabeth Fernea, Professor Emeritus * James Brow, Anthropology * John Downing, RTF *
Student members: Paredes Center for Cultural Studies : Guha Shankar * Mark Westmoreland * John Schaefer * Benjamin Hodges * Anthropology/RTF Brian Rawlins

 

Phone: (512)471-4206 Fax: (512)471-6535

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