Margaret Mead Film Fest '14 Preview

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Published on Tuesday, 23 September 2014 15:19

Written by Renzo Adler

Happiness

With this year’s theme of “Past Forward,” the Margaret Mead Film Festival (October 13 - 26, 2014) at NYC's American Museum of Natural History (77th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Ave), aims to look at what creates our cultural identity and how people change and grow, but at the same time must look back in life. Filmmakers from all over the world, including South Africa, Poland, South America, and Colombia, tell their stories of environmental, personal, and political change.

Films being screened include, but are not limited to:

• Madame Phung’s Last Journey
  Follow a troupe of Vietnamese cross-dressing singers on their journey through the country’s back roads for a year.

• Master and Divino
  Step into the Amazon valley for an absorbing and whimsical look at Catholic missionary culture among the indigenous people.

• Happiness
  As TV and the Internet come to rural Bhutan, a young monk’s trip to the capital becomes a bittersweet meditation on technological progress.

• 28 Up South Africa
  Diverse stories of young South Africans illuminate the tumultuous cultural and political history of the country since the end of apartheid.

• Cast in India
  A glimpse into the lives of men in Indian factories who forge the ubiquitous bits of street life New Yorkers step on daily: manhole covers!

• Hollow
  A participatory, web-based documentary project examining the future (and past) of rural America through the history of McDowell County, West Virginia.

Also part of the festival are a series of lectures and panel discussions called Mead Dialogues which give the audience a forum for discussion on the themes of the festival along with a tribute to filmmaker Robert Gardner. Special events during the fest include a Friday night mixer, a lesson on the Pacific Northwest Native American culture, and Gapuwiyak Calling: an art installation combining cell phone technology with the culture and mythology of the Gapuwiyak people of Australia.

The Margeret Mead Film Festival brings together a diverse and challenging array of films and filmmakers for NYC’s audiences and offers a unique chance to see some truly unique films.

To learn more, go to: http://www.amnh.org/explore/margaret-mead-film-festival/

The Margaret Mead Film Festival
October 13 - 26, 2013

The American Museum of Natural History
Central Park W & 79th St
New York, NY 10024