2009 Film, Video and Interactive Media Screening Program
Society for Visual Anthropology, Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia

Wednesday, December 2

2:30 PM - 6.00 PM Alternative Views of Place

2:30 PM Wai Mar Nyunt, Happy Days (Stories of change from Myanmar)

2:45 PM Tay Zar Win Tun, Water Boy (Stories of change from Myanmar)

3:00 PM Shin Daewe, Beyond the Tsunami (Stories of change from Myanmar)

3:25 PM Kyi Phyu Shin, The Merry Widows of Nam Mun Village (Stories of change from Myanmar)

3:50 PM Massoud Bakhshi, Tehran Has No More Pomegranates

5:00 PM Sergei Loznitsa, Revue

6:15 PM - 9:30 PM Society for Visual Anthropology Film, Video and Interactive Media Festival Awards Ceremony

6:15 PM Short clips of award winners

7:00 PM - 9:30 Films of special interest to anthropologists

7:00 PM Llewellyn Smith, Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness

8:00 PM Kristy Andersen, Sam Pollard, Zora Neale Hurston

Thursday, December 3

8:00 AM - 10:30 AM Primatology and Archaeology

8:00 AM Anne Zeller, Macaques

8:55 AM Francis Delfour, Rapayan

9:50 AM Adam Fish, Viking Longhouse

10:20 AM Discussion

10:30 AM - 2:30 PM Material Culture

10:30 PM Du Haibin, Umbrella

12:05 PM Sandra Ristovska, Kaleidoscope

12:50 PM Break and discussion

1:05 PM Kathleen Mossman Vitale, Manuela and Esperanza

1:35 PM  Jobie Weetaluktuk, Umiaq Skin Boat

2:05 PM Discussion

2:30 PM - 6:45 PM Human rights/Environmental Racism

2:30 PM Jeff Silva, Balkan Rhapsodies

3:30 PM George and Beth Gage, American Outrage

4:30 PM Discussion

4:40 PM Bridget Hanna, This Much I Know (Itna Mujhe Pata Hai)

5:10 PM Maryam Kashani, Las Callecitas a la Canada Honorable Mention

5:35 PM Discussion

5:45 PM Mariano Agudo, Roi Guitin, Yindabad

6:45 PM - 8:45 PM Religion and Ritual

6:45 PM Jayasinhji Jhala, The Last Rites of the Honorable Mr. Rai

7:25 PM Richard Werbner, Holy Hustlers

8:20 PM Daniel Yeoh, The Gladiator Cock

8:30 PM Discussion

Friday, December 4

8:00 AM - 2:00 PM Modernity, Change or Resistance

8:00 AM Eva Lippold, Anna Schafer, Allotment Happiness

8:20 AM Bjoern Reinhardt, Sheep’s Brother

9:15 AM Michael Graziano, Young Arabs Short Film Award

9:35 AM Tracey Deer, Club Native Award of Commendation

10:55 AM Nahid Persson, Four Wives Honorable Mention

12:10 PM Break and Discussion

12:15 PM Noelle Stout, Luchando Honorable Mention

1:15 PM  Xiaoli Zhou, Brent E. Huffman, The Women’s Kingdom

1:40 PM Lina Fruzzetti, Akos Ostor, Songs of a Sorrowful Man

2:15 PM - 5:45 PM Globalization

2:15 PM Peter Biella, Maasai Migrants

2:40 PM Discussion

2:45 PM Amelia Hapsari, Sharing Paradise

3:45 PM David E. Simpson, Milking the Rhino

4:45 PM Robert Nugent, End of the Rainbow

5:45 PM - 8:15 PM Made in America

5:45 PM Stacy Peralta, Crips and Bloods: Made in America

7:10 PM Break

7:15 PM Denise Nicole Green, Somewhere in Between

7:45 PM Lauren Greenfield, Kids and Money

Saturday, December 5

8:00 AM - 11:45 AM Activism around the World

8:00 AM Abhijay Karlekar, Running Out of Time

9:00 AM Ruth Krause, Untouchable

9:35 AM Jane Gillooly, Today the Hawk Takes One Chick

11:00 AM Charles Menzies, Jennifer Rashleigh Bax Laanks

11:50 AM - 2:30 PM Activism in North America

11:50 AM Zac Davis, Michael Searcy, Starvation Doctrine

12:50 PM Jennifer Wolowic, For Our Street Family Student Award

1:25 PM Discussion

1:30 PM Brittney Shepard, Eva Moss, S. Leo Chiang A Village called Versailles

2:30 PM - Conflict and Memory

2:30 PM Wazhmah Osman, Postcards from Tora Bora

4:00 PM Valentina Bonifacio, Casado’s Legacy Honorable Mention

4:55 PM Carlos Cardenas, Hector Galvez, Lucanamarca

6:00 PM Eric Wittersheim, The Poet’s Salary

7:00 PM Paul H Goldsmith, Six Generations

8:00 PM - 9:00 PM Tribute to Asen Balicki

8:00 PM Rolf Husmann, Manfred Krueger, The Professional Foreigner