Festival of Visual Anthropology ASPEKTY in Poland is pleased to announce opening submission for the 4th edition of festival. Submissions are free and open for every documentary films from any field of ethnographic, anthropological, analytical approach to cultures and societies. The Festival has an audience competition program.

“ASPEKTY” is a yearly anthropological film festival, which aims at exploring various areas of culture. The principle of the festival is to discover and present various relations, phenomena, interactions and mechanisms within cultures. Submitted films must have been completed after year 2005.

Entry Deadlines:
Entries Deadline: August 1, 2010
Films Delivery Deadline: August 31, 2010

For more information and submission forms, rules please visit
http://aspektyfestival.pl/en
Email: festival@aspektyfestival.pl
lukas@aspektyfestival.pl
Festival of Visual Anthropology ASPEKTY
Torun, Poland

New Orleans has inspired the theme of the 2010 AAA Annual Meetings: “Circulation.” This theme is meant to encourage us to think about what happens when movement is the organizing trope of our questions, methodologies, analyses and accounts. We can think in terms of circulation across time as well as space, through different organizing principles, and in a variety of shapes and forms, inviting us to consider what triggers, facilitates, constrains, disrupts or stops flows; what is at stake in these processes and for whom.

The SVA always has a significant presence at the Annual Meeting, and 2010 will be no different. We encourage anthropologists of all ranks and with interests in visual research to contribute proposals. Deadlines for the submission of executive, invited and volunteered sessions are coming up, so please feel free to contact the SVA program committee with your questions, ideas, and submissions well before the deadlines below so that we can address any concerns and help build the strongest possible SVA program for this year.

The 2010 SVA Program Committee consists of Stephanie Takaragawa (takaraga@chapman.edu) and Jenny Chio (Jenny.Chio@uts.edu.au). (more…)

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Reminder:
Call for Films: Submission deadline: 15 December 2009
Please forward to filmmakers / students who have produced a film
10th Göttingen International
Ethnographic Film Festival
12 – 16 May, 2010
http://www.gieff.de/

The festival promotes documentary cinema with a special emphasis on new films, videos or interactive media (published after 1.1.2007) 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. (more…)

Additional information can be found at http://anthfilm.anth.ubc.ca

Where/ When: Göttingen, Germany, 12 – 16 May, 2010
Call for Films: Submission deadline: 15 December 2009
http://www.gieff.de/

The festival promotes documentary cinema with a special emphasis on new films, videos or interactive media (published after 1.1.2007) 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 festival encourages young filmmakers to submit their films, as the festival specially supports STUDENT FILMS and awards the best with the Student Film Award 2010 .

Furthermore a SPECIAL AWARD is given in 2010 by the Centro Inconri Umani in Ascona/Switzerland for the best film promoting intercultural understanding in the context of natural disasters or human conflicts.

GIEFF 2010 also presents a special program on the filmic documentation of Intangible Cultural Heritage. (more…)

What: The Festival du Film Ethnographique du Québec (FIFEQ)
Where/When: Montreal, Canada; January 29th to the 31st 2010
Submission Deadline: Nov. 6, 2009

The Festival du Film Ethnographique du Québec (FIFEQ) is now in its seventh year!  From January 29th to the 31st 2010, approximately one hundred ethnographic films will be shown free of charge in both Montreal and Quebec.  The screening of these films will be accompanied by lectures, roundtable discussions and social gatherings. We are now accepting film submissions until November 6th, 2009. (more…)

What: Short article submissions for Apskety Festival, Poland
Deadline: September 15, 2009

Festival of Visual Anthropology Aspekty invites submissions of articles related to visual anthropology, and anthropology of film. The most interesting articles will be published in promotional materials during the festival. They will also be published on the festival website in the database of articles.

The maximum size of article: 4-5 pages A4, font size 12.
Please send your texts till 15 September 2009 to festival@aspektyfestival.pl
In the title of an e-mail, please enter “Article for Festival”
The festival starts on 27th November 2009.
For more information, please go to our website www.aspektyfestival.pl

Lukas Jakielski
lukas@aspektyfestival.pl
www.aspektyfestival.pl

Calling All Filmmakers!

When: Oct 2nd-6th, 2009
Entry submission deadline: June 10th, 2009

TIEFF is organized by the Taiwan Association of Visual Ethnography, a non-profit organization dedicated to greater public awareness of documentary and ethnographic films, and co-organized by the Institute of Ethnology at the Academia Sinica of Taiwan. TIEFF is more than a venue for screening films and videos; it is also a forum for education, discussion, and exchange. TIEFF considers every film selected to be equally valuable; therefore, there is no competition section in the event.

The biennial’s 5th edition, “Body and Soul”, will invite curious audience to a multi-cultural survey of medical/alternative healing practices. Possible topics that candidate films draw attention to can include, but are not limited to: Health care in the developing world / Indigenous, traditional, and alternative healing practices / Epidemics and infectious disease, suffering and care, etc. In creating the theme, the festival seeks stories and examples all around the world to cultivate common understanding of issues on physical and mental health beyond the confines of traditional medicines, in order to encompass heterogeneous, physical and spiritual practices which shape health care around the world. (more…)

What: Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival
Where: Taipei, Taiwan
When: October 2-6, 2009
Entry Submission Deadline: June 10th, 2009

Since launching Asia’s first international ethnographic film festival in 2001, the biennial Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival (TIEFF) has established itself as one of the world’s foremost venues for documentary and ethnographic films from around the world. This year, from October 2nd till the 6th, the 5th TIEFF will be held in Taipei, Taiwan. This year’s theme, “body and soul” seeks to explore biomedical and alternative healing practices from a cross cultural perspective. Possible topics for inclusion include, but are not limited to: health care in the developing world, indigenous, traditional, and alternative healing practices, epidemics and infectious disease, suffering and care, etc. In choosing the theme “body and soul” the festival seeks to expand our understanding of issues pertaining to physical and mental health beyond the confines of traditional biomedicine in order to encompass the heterogeneous bodily and spiritual practices which shape health care around the world.

In addition to films submitted under the central theme, “Body and Soul” (which is open to all films fitting the theme, regardless of when they were made), TIEFF also welcomes recently completed films, on any topic, made within the past two years (2007-2009), for submission to its “New Vision” section.
TIEFF has become an important fixture in Taiwan’s cultural and intellectual life, attracting large audiences of filmgoers, teachers, and students every two years. TIEFF is organized by the Taiwan Association of

Visual Ethnography, a non-profit organization dedicated to greater public awareness of documentary and ethnographic films, and co-organized by the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. TIEFF is more than a venue for screening films and videos, it is also a forum for learning, discussion and the exchange of ideas. TIEFF considers every film selected to be an equally valuable; accordingly, there is no competition section. All film submissions are handled through our webiste:

http://www.tieff.sinica.edu.tw

Entry deadline: June 10th, 2009