Exclusive: The Human Rights Watch Film Festival recently announced it’s closing down, and the future of Hot Docs remains uncertain at best. But there’s some hopeful news for the troubled film festival space: the return of the Margaret Mead Film Festival in New York.
The longest running nonfiction film festival in the U.S. reemerges May 9, after being dark since the pandemic. The four-day event will showcase documentary films from across the globe, as well as animation, panel discussions, and live performances, all from its home base at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. [Scroll for the full program]
Margaret Mead Film Festival
“Mead 2024 gives platform to new voices that inspire fresh conversations about our shared humanity,” noted Jacqueline Handy, director of public programs at the American Museum of Natural History, adding the festival has been “a vibrant part of the Museum landscape since 1977.”
The festival kicks off on Thursday,...
The longest running nonfiction film festival in the U.S. reemerges May 9, after being dark since the pandemic. The four-day event will showcase documentary films from across the globe, as well as animation, panel discussions, and live performances, all from its home base at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. [Scroll for the full program]
Margaret Mead Film Festival
“Mead 2024 gives platform to new voices that inspire fresh conversations about our shared humanity,” noted Jacqueline Handy, director of public programs at the American Museum of Natural History, adding the festival has been “a vibrant part of the Museum landscape since 1977.”
The festival kicks off on Thursday,...
- 5/3/2024
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Jessica Chastain, resplendent in a shimmering silver tasseled jump suit, championed the power of art to bring about positive change at the opening night of the Marrakech Film Festival on Friday evening.
The actress is the attending the Moroccan film festival as the president of the jury.
She was joined on stage by jury members Iranian Holy Spider actress Zar Amir, Call My Agent! star Camille Cottin, Australian actor and director Joel Edgerton, UK director Joanna Hogg, U.S. director Dee Rees and Swedish filmmaker Tarik Saleh and actor Alexander Skarsgård.
“Throughout history art has been used as an accessible tool for communication, raising awareness about social issues and effecting positive change,” she said.
Citing the words of renowned anthropologist Margaret Mead on the power of “a small group of thoughtful committed citizens” to change the world, Chastain called on all those in the theatre to embrace the arts.
“I...
The actress is the attending the Moroccan film festival as the president of the jury.
She was joined on stage by jury members Iranian Holy Spider actress Zar Amir, Call My Agent! star Camille Cottin, Australian actor and director Joel Edgerton, UK director Joanna Hogg, U.S. director Dee Rees and Swedish filmmaker Tarik Saleh and actor Alexander Skarsgård.
“Throughout history art has been used as an accessible tool for communication, raising awareness about social issues and effecting positive change,” she said.
Citing the words of renowned anthropologist Margaret Mead on the power of “a small group of thoughtful committed citizens” to change the world, Chastain called on all those in the theatre to embrace the arts.
“I...
- 11/24/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Film CommentaryThe names of the characters in the movie represent a trend that is followed by marginalised sections defying the caste hegemony enforced upon them even in naming themselves.Sipoy SarveswarWhen I joined the Master’s programme at the University of Hyderabad, it provided me an opportunity to meet people from various parts of our country. As a student of anthropology, I was intrigued to see how socio-cultural reasons of that particular time and space play an imperative role in naming people. The theories of Culture Personality (propounded by Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict) and Symbolic and Interpretive Anthropology (pioneered by Victor Turner and Clifford Geertz) offer us greater insights to understand why and how a certain pattern of naming can be observed in certain sections of Indian society. Culture Personality theory tries to understand the relationship between the culture of a society and the personality of the individuals in that culture.
- 5/28/2021
- by Sowmya
- The News Minute
Craig Gilbert, a documentarian whose candid and controversial 1973 PBS series An American Family would later be credited as a forerunner of reality TV (to his chagrin), died April 10 in New York City following a brief illness. He was 94.
The director’s death was announced on his official website and confirmed by friend John Mulholland, director of the 2013 documentary Cooper & Hemingway: The True Gen, executive produced by Gilbert.
“Craig had been in good shape until late February,” Mulholland told Deadline, “when he started to fail. In early April, it became difficult for him to get out of bed.” Mulholland said Gilbert died in his sleep, with...
The director’s death was announced on his official website and confirmed by friend John Mulholland, director of the 2013 documentary Cooper & Hemingway: The True Gen, executive produced by Gilbert.
“Craig had been in good shape until late February,” Mulholland told Deadline, “when he started to fail. In early April, it became difficult for him to get out of bed.” Mulholland said Gilbert died in his sleep, with...
- 4/14/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Glen "Big Baby" Davis won't go to jail after he was allegedly caught with a quarter-pound of weed ... TMZ Sports has learned the ex-nba star cut a deal in his case and is officially off the hook. The former Celtics Pf was busted back in February 2018 after cops say they found 126 grams of marijuana on him along with $92,164 in a briefcase at his Maryland hotel. He was arrested and hit with 7 charges -- including a...
- 2/15/2019
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
The 2014 edition of the Margaret Mead Film Festival, a great annual documentary fest which screens at the American Museum of Natural History and runs this year from October 23-26, has as this year's theme "Past Forward." According to the festival, this theme describes "how traditions help cultures survive and thrive, even in the face of climate catastrophes and economic adversity." This year's festival opens with The Last Patrol, Sebastian Junger's follow-up to his Afghanistan war documentary Restrepo. As always, this festival offers artful and sensitively portrayed looks at a broad array of global cultures, with approaches to filmmaking and storytelling as diverse as the people and issues within them. Below are reviews of a few of this year's selections. For more information, and to purchase tickets,...
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- 10/23/2014
- Screen Anarchy
In an episode titled "I Can't Get Over You to Save My Life," it's not surprising to find our friends in Music City nursing old wounds and stumbling over their various insecurities.
Luke and Rayna are both trying to adjust to the whole "Ruke" phenomenon, going so far as to suggest that their respective teams push "Layna" as the preferred portmanteau for the supercouple instead. (Ok, so it's not ideal, but at least it doesn't rhyme with "puke.") But when Rayna sits down with Team Wheeler to go over both artists' respective tour schedules,...
Luke and Rayna are both trying to adjust to the whole "Ruke" phenomenon, going so far as to suggest that their respective teams push "Layna" as the preferred portmanteau for the supercouple instead. (Ok, so it's not ideal, but at least it doesn't rhyme with "puke.") But when Rayna sits down with Team Wheeler to go over both artists' respective tour schedules,...
- 10/9/2014
- Rollingstone.com
Football — it is a game. And one that many people watch. Gay people, allegedly, are some of these people. The More You Know.
Now that Seattle and Denver are headed to the Super Bowl on February 2, it’s probably time to learn something real about this sport. To help usher you (and me) into comprehensive football awareness, here are 10 tweets from gays who commented on yesterday’s big games. Or just said something about the games. Or seemed to know what football was.
1. Richard Lawson introduces you to the Seahawks’ head coach Pete Carroll.
Pete Carroll looks like a senator who murdered his mistress in a Wesley Snipes thriller
— Richard Lawson (@rilaws) January 20, 2014
2. Dave Holmes invites you to shake hands with Jim Harbaugh, the coach of the losing San Francisco 49ers.
Jim Harbaugh looks like the reverse of that Far Side cartoon where the lady's dog is in her butt.
Now that Seattle and Denver are headed to the Super Bowl on February 2, it’s probably time to learn something real about this sport. To help usher you (and me) into comprehensive football awareness, here are 10 tweets from gays who commented on yesterday’s big games. Or just said something about the games. Or seemed to know what football was.
1. Richard Lawson introduces you to the Seahawks’ head coach Pete Carroll.
Pete Carroll looks like a senator who murdered his mistress in a Wesley Snipes thriller
— Richard Lawson (@rilaws) January 20, 2014
2. Dave Holmes invites you to shake hands with Jim Harbaugh, the coach of the losing San Francisco 49ers.
Jim Harbaugh looks like the reverse of that Far Side cartoon where the lady's dog is in her butt.
- 1/20/2014
- by Louis Virtel
- The Backlot
Director Jehane Noujaim discusses her documentary on Tahrir Square and three years of revolutionary political upheaval
The Square is the first Egyptian film to earn an Oscar nomination – but it cannot officially be shown in Egypt itself. That is down to its provocative subject matter: the documentary charts the course of Egypt's political upheaval since 2011, through the eyes of a handful of Tahrir Square protesters. Here, the film's director, Jehane Noujaim, explains how she made it, and defends her protagonists against accusations of idealism.
Patrick Kingsley: The film focuses on half a dozen protesters who you follow over a three-year period, beginning right at the start of the 2011 uprising. Why did you decide to focus on these people in particular, and how did you find them so early in the revolution?
Jehane Noujaim: I look for characters that I fall in love with, that will take me places that I have never been,...
The Square is the first Egyptian film to earn an Oscar nomination – but it cannot officially be shown in Egypt itself. That is down to its provocative subject matter: the documentary charts the course of Egypt's political upheaval since 2011, through the eyes of a handful of Tahrir Square protesters. Here, the film's director, Jehane Noujaim, explains how she made it, and defends her protagonists against accusations of idealism.
Patrick Kingsley: The film focuses on half a dozen protesters who you follow over a three-year period, beginning right at the start of the 2011 uprising. Why did you decide to focus on these people in particular, and how did you find them so early in the revolution?
Jehane Noujaim: I look for characters that I fall in love with, that will take me places that I have never been,...
- 1/20/2014
- by Patrick Kingsley
- The Guardian - Film News
Richard Heffner, longtime host of PBS interview show The Open Mind and former head of the MPAA ratings board, has died. The Rutgers University professor passed away December 17 at his home in New York City of a cerebral hemorrhage, according to the university’s website. He was 88. Heffner was tapped to head the MPAA’s Classifications and Ratings Administration in 1974 by then-chairman Jack Valenti. He served until 1994. The PG-13 and Nc-17 ratings were introduced during his tenure — PG-13 in 1984 and Nc-17 in 1990. He spoke about the ratings with our sister pub Variety in 1994. When a producer asks about reasons for the rating he told Variety, “We always try to be helpful,but sometimes we simply can’t be as specific as filmmakers want us to be. We’re not film editors, and don’t pretend to be.” He also acknowledged that the Nc-17 rating should have been communicated more clearly when it was introduced.
- 12/20/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
The 2013 edition of the Margaret Mead Film Festival, the American Museum of Natural History's annual international documentary showcase, screens from October 17 through 20. If the films that I was able to preview are any indication, this year's selections are especially impressive. The theme of this year's festival is "See for Yourself." And that you'll be able to do plenty of, as you view fascinatingly eclectic representations of global cultures, touching on many aspects of the human experience, explored with great skill in narrative and cinematic techniques. In addition to the films, there will be talks, film installations, and live music performances, packing a great deal of activities in just four days.Here are some selections I especially recommend. For more information, and to purchase...
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- 10/17/2013
- Screen Anarchy
The 2013 Margaret Mead Film Festival will be held from Thursday, October 17th through Sunday, October 20th at the American Museum of Natural History. The theme of this year's festival delves into how humans perceive culture by way of various and distinct artistic narratives. The festivals' lineup will include 16 U.S. premieres, including "Miss Nikki and the Tiger Girls," which will screen opening night on Thursday, October 17th. Here's a selection of the films included, with descriptions from the festival: Allan Baldwin: In Frame, directed by Tearepa Kahi Gyumri. Photographer-turned-historian Allan Baldwin’s magnificent pictures of Maori tattoos are a tribute to a dying traditional art form. (U.S. premiere) And Who Taught You to Drive?, directed by Andrea Thiele. Three people’s humorous attempts to get driver’s licenses while living abroad—American Jake in Japan, German Mirela in India, and South Korean Hye-Won in Germany—create a sly, warmhearted exploration of cultural.
- 9/6/2013
- by Ohad Amram
- Indiewire
The evening was hosted by Andrew Kober and Danielle Wade. Andrew Kober made his Broadway debut in the 2009 Tony Award winning revival of Hair after originating the roles of Father and Margaret Mead in the Shakespeare in the Park production. He also played the roles in the West End revival in 2010. He has also appeared on television in 'Boardwalk Empire,' 'Pan Am' and 'House of Cards.'...
- 8/7/2013
- by Jessica Gordon
- BroadwayWorld.com
The anthropologist Margaret Mead played an instrumental role in dragging America out of its post–WWII frigidity by documenting the sexual mores of distant tribes. We should therefore consider ourselves lucky she never studied the Tennessee hayseeds featured in Chad Crawford Kinkle's debut feature, Jug Face, or we might still be wearing petticoats and sock garters. Ada (Lauren Ashley Carter) lives in one of those rural fundamentalist enclaves occasionally featured on PBS, where moonshine is distilled and roadkill is considered no-joke dining. Here, for an added bonus, siblings are viable romantic partners and those who transgress against the desires of the monster residing in a nearby pit are flogged and left to be horribly devoured. The creature, beneficiary of a blood pac...
- 8/7/2013
- Village Voice
Tags: Pussy RiotRachel MaddowPaul RyanElizabeth BanksHolland TaylorMartha PlimptonIMDb
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Marina Alyokhina, and Yekaterina Samutsevich of Pussy Riot have been sentenced to two years in prison, officially for hooliganism and having a concert at a Moscow Cathedral, but many believe their actual crime is pissing off Vladimir Putin. Gawker published their fierce and moving closing statements last week. I highly recommend them.
This Week in Ladybits
Feministing pointed to a remarkable article by an abortion provider on what’s at stake in the ongoing attempts to lock down your uterus.
Hey, Rachel Maddow, are your arms tired from hammering Paul Ryan all week? In addition to looking like Will Schuester’s evil twin, Ryan really, really, really does not care for ladies controlling their own ladybits. For example, he sponsored a bill that would make abortion illegal even in the case of rape or incest - and Kevin Drum over...
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Marina Alyokhina, and Yekaterina Samutsevich of Pussy Riot have been sentenced to two years in prison, officially for hooliganism and having a concert at a Moscow Cathedral, but many believe their actual crime is pissing off Vladimir Putin. Gawker published their fierce and moving closing statements last week. I highly recommend them.
This Week in Ladybits
Feministing pointed to a remarkable article by an abortion provider on what’s at stake in the ongoing attempts to lock down your uterus.
Hey, Rachel Maddow, are your arms tired from hammering Paul Ryan all week? In addition to looking like Will Schuester’s evil twin, Ryan really, really, really does not care for ladies controlling their own ladybits. For example, he sponsored a bill that would make abortion illegal even in the case of rape or incest - and Kevin Drum over...
- 8/17/2012
- by Ali Davis
- AfterEllen.com
The Margaret Mead Film Festival is now accepting entries to the 2012 edition. The deadline for submissions is May 16th, 2012.
The Mead Festival considers a range of non-narrative films, including feature length documentaries, hybrid works, shorts, experimental films, essay films, animation, and new media. The festival looks for films with a strong artistic presence and innovative story-telling techniques.
The entry forms and full guidelines can be found on festival website (www.amnh.org/mead)
Submit your film through Without A Box (http://www.withoutabox.com/login/1236)
For more information on submission requirements and other details, please check festival website or email at meadfest@amnh.org.
Margaret Mead Film Festival is an international documentary film festival in the United States.
The Mead Festival considers a range of non-narrative films, including feature length documentaries, hybrid works, shorts, experimental films, essay films, animation, and new media. The festival looks for films with a strong artistic presence and innovative story-telling techniques.
The entry forms and full guidelines can be found on festival website (www.amnh.org/mead)
Submit your film through Without A Box (http://www.withoutabox.com/login/1236)
For more information on submission requirements and other details, please check festival website or email at meadfest@amnh.org.
Margaret Mead Film Festival is an international documentary film festival in the United States.
- 3/3/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Above Suspicion on Acorn Media DVD
Kieran Kinsella
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March is going to be a marvelous month for fans of British TV as Acorn Media and Athena release something old, something new and something that has elements that people once regarded as being … well a little blue!
Out Acorn Media
Originally broadcast in 1978, Out is a Thames TV drama about a convict named Frank Ross (Tom Bell) who emerges from jail after serving an eight year stretch for his role in a heist. Out has elements that you find in shows such as The Sweeney, Minder and dare I even say Life on Mars only this show is rather more serious than those classics. Ross is a cold customer who is intent on finding the rat who caused his arrest.
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March is going to be a marvelous month for fans of British TV as Acorn Media and Athena release something old, something new and something that has elements that people once regarded as being … well a little blue!
Out Acorn Media
Originally broadcast in 1978, Out is a Thames TV drama about a convict named Frank Ross (Tom Bell) who emerges from jail after serving an eight year stretch for his role in a heist. Out has elements that you find in shows such as The Sweeney, Minder and dare I even say Life on Mars only this show is rather more serious than those classics. Ross is a cold customer who is intent on finding the rat who caused his arrest.
- 2/9/2012
- by admin
"It seems curious that as little biographical information exists in the recent books about the ethnographic filmmaker Robert Gardner as in his movies featured in the partial retrospective of his work starting today at Film Forum," writes Manohla Dargis in the New York Times. "For much of a career that has spanned more than a half-century and circumnavigated the globe, Mr Gardner has trained the camera on people whose lives, rituals, beliefs and bodily ornamentation can seem so far from early-21st-century Western life as to be from another galaxy. Yet despite Mr Gardner's seeming reluctance to share personal details, the work in Robert Gardner: Artist/Ethnographer makes it clear that he's been telling his own story all along."
J Hoberman in the Voice: "A man of many worlds, Robert Gardner is a descendent of Boston aristocrat Isabella Stewart Gardner (as in the Museum), the founder (and funder) of Harvard's Film Study Center,...
J Hoberman in the Voice: "A man of many worlds, Robert Gardner is a descendent of Boston aristocrat Isabella Stewart Gardner (as in the Museum), the founder (and funder) of Harvard's Film Study Center,...
- 11/12/2011
- MUBI
As part of its 35th anniversary celebrations, the Margaret Mead Film Festival at New York's American Museum of Natural History will screen Space Tourists on Friday, November 11, at 8pm.
The film, directed by Academy Award-nominee Christian Frei, will then move from the silver screen to the TV screen, airing on Documentary Channel on Sunday, November 13, at 8pm.
For Anousheh Ansari, an Iranian-American billionaire raised during the glory days of American and Soviet space exploration, no price is too high when it comes to travelling to the International Space Station.
Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, formerly secret installations are now open to the public with enough money to fund their space travel fantasies.
In 2006, Ansari paid $20million for her journey. While she lives out her dream high above the Earth, photographer Jonas Bendiksen takes a ground tour of remote Kazakhstan where the shuttle launches are tracked by scrap metal...
The film, directed by Academy Award-nominee Christian Frei, will then move from the silver screen to the TV screen, airing on Documentary Channel on Sunday, November 13, at 8pm.
For Anousheh Ansari, an Iranian-American billionaire raised during the glory days of American and Soviet space exploration, no price is too high when it comes to travelling to the International Space Station.
Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, formerly secret installations are now open to the public with enough money to fund their space travel fantasies.
In 2006, Ansari paid $20million for her journey. While she lives out her dream high above the Earth, photographer Jonas Bendiksen takes a ground tour of remote Kazakhstan where the shuttle launches are tracked by scrap metal...
- 10/14/2011
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
The Margaret Mead Film Festival, the American Museum of Natural History's annual festival of anthropological film named after the famed anthropologist, has announced the seven nominees for its Margaret Mead Filmmaker Award. The seven Us premieres were chosen because they "push the boundaries of visual anthropology as they take audiences deeply into contemporary societal challenges around the world." The award's winner will be chosen by a jury led by "Black ...
- 9/14/2011
- Indiewire
The deadline to submit entries for the 35th Annual Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival is May 9, 2011. The festival is looking for non-fiction works which can be international documentary, experimental films, animation and hybrid works.
The films can be on any subject. “The Mead Festival screens films that increase our understanding of the complexity and diversity of the peoples and cultures that populate our planet,” as stated in a press release.
The festival presents the Margaret Mead Filmmaker Award which includes a cash prize.
Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival takes place from November 10-13 at the American Museum of Natural History, New York. It is one of the largest documentary film festivals in America founded by the American Museum of Natural History.
For more details and to submit your film, visit http://www.amnh.org/programs/mead/submit/...
The films can be on any subject. “The Mead Festival screens films that increase our understanding of the complexity and diversity of the peoples and cultures that populate our planet,” as stated in a press release.
The festival presents the Margaret Mead Filmmaker Award which includes a cash prize.
Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival takes place from November 10-13 at the American Museum of Natural History, New York. It is one of the largest documentary film festivals in America founded by the American Museum of Natural History.
For more details and to submit your film, visit http://www.amnh.org/programs/mead/submit/...
- 4/26/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Chicago – The casts of two current theater spectaculars in Chicago lent their talents to benefit Marriage Equality in the United States. The “Be-In for Marriage Equality” took place on March 14, 2011, and featured performers from the road show Broadway version of “Hair” and the current cast of “Million Dollar Quartet.”
The event, which was produced by Alissa Norby of HollywoodChicago.com through her Jabberwock Productions, took place at Sidetracks nightclub in Chicago and accentuated the vocal talents in both companies. With original songs and cover versions, it was a talented parade of a true musical experience. The show benefited “Broadway Impact,” an advocacy group lobbying for marriage equality and other issues.
Highlights included a version of Paul Simon’s “America” and an original song from Gabe Bowling, who plays Carl Perkins in Million Dollar Quartet. Both casts finished together with the show stopper from Hair called “The Flesh Failures/Let the Sunshine In.
The event, which was produced by Alissa Norby of HollywoodChicago.com through her Jabberwock Productions, took place at Sidetracks nightclub in Chicago and accentuated the vocal talents in both companies. With original songs and cover versions, it was a talented parade of a true musical experience. The show benefited “Broadway Impact,” an advocacy group lobbying for marriage equality and other issues.
Highlights included a version of Paul Simon’s “America” and an original song from Gabe Bowling, who plays Carl Perkins in Million Dollar Quartet. Both casts finished together with the show stopper from Hair called “The Flesh Failures/Let the Sunshine In.
- 3/19/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival is calling for entries for its 2011 edition.
The Mead Festival considers a range of non-narrative films and videos including feature length documentaries, hybrid works, shorts, experimental films, essay films, animation, and new media.
Films can be mailed after completing an entry form. The entry forms and full guidelines can be found on the website www.amnh.org/mead. Films can also be submitted through Without A Box (http://www.withoutabox.com/login/1236)
Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival is an international documentary film festival in America.
The Mead Festival considers a range of non-narrative films and videos including feature length documentaries, hybrid works, shorts, experimental films, essay films, animation, and new media.
Films can be mailed after completing an entry form. The entry forms and full guidelines can be found on the website www.amnh.org/mead. Films can also be submitted through Without A Box (http://www.withoutabox.com/login/1236)
Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival is an international documentary film festival in America.
- 2/5/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Hello, Zoners! Welcome to a new week of wonderfulness.There’s a lot of politics coming to the ‘Colbert Report’, wth Cornel West, Ron Reagan, and Chris Matthews all slated to visit; Ms. Turkle will bring science, psychology, and technology to the mix and she is the sole guest never to have previously appeared on either The Daily Show or the Report. I had fun looking back at the old videos, and I hope you will too.
January 17th: Sherry Turkle
How does our online communication affect the way we relate to each other in real life? Are today’s youngsters losing the ability to deal with each other face to face? How can living in a cyberworld help and harm us? Those are just a few of the questions tacked by eminent sociologist and author Sherry Turkle. Turkle, the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT,...
January 17th: Sherry Turkle
How does our online communication affect the way we relate to each other in real life? Are today’s youngsters losing the ability to deal with each other face to face? How can living in a cyberworld help and harm us? Those are just a few of the questions tacked by eminent sociologist and author Sherry Turkle. Turkle, the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT,...
- 1/18/2011
- by Karenatasha
- No Fact Zone
The 34th Annual Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, a leading event for ethnographic film and video, has set its program taking place November 11 through Sunday, November 14 at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The fest's opening and closing films coincide with the museum's new "Brain: The Inside Story" exhibition. Jens Schanze and Judith Malek Mahdevi's "Plug and Pray," about artificial intelligence will open the event, ...
- 10/1/2010
- Indiewire
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." - attributed to Margaret Mead“The Cove”, winner of the 2010 Academy Award for Best Documentary film, tells the story of a secret cove in the fishing village of Taiji, Japan. Within this protected body of water, local fisherman herd, segregate, and slaughter in excess of twenty-three thousand dolphin per year, all carefully hidden from the public eye. “The Cove” tells the story of how a small group of activists infiltrate...
- 9/18/2010
- by jhf124
- Examiner Movies Channel
Previously on Mad Men @ the Movies: 4.1 Live From Times Square 4.2 Sixties Sweethearts 4.3 Catherine Deneuve & Gamera, 4.4 Jean Seberg, 4.5 Hayley Mills & David McCallum, 4.6 Chaplin the Sad Clown 4.7 "No Bad Seats"
freelance creative Joey and name-dropping Harry discuss Peyton Place
Episode 4.8 "The Summer Man"
In yesterday's episode, Peggy (Elisabeth Moss) and Joan (Christina Hendricks) have a difficult showdown with Joey (Matt Long) the freelancer, another example of the show's study of sexism in the workplace. Joan turns on Peggy, despite Peggy's efforts to help. Joan is still in her downward spiral, less powerful in the office, helpless at home, and continually obsessing over Vietnam. Meanwhile, Don Draper (Jon Hamm) finally pulls himself out of his spiral. After last week's instant classic episode, which was very tightly focused, this was a rather uncharacteristic episode with prolonged narration from Don and a jumble of different scenes that felt like transitions away from old storylines.
Peyton Place.
freelance creative Joey and name-dropping Harry discuss Peyton Place
Episode 4.8 "The Summer Man"
In yesterday's episode, Peggy (Elisabeth Moss) and Joan (Christina Hendricks) have a difficult showdown with Joey (Matt Long) the freelancer, another example of the show's study of sexism in the workplace. Joan turns on Peggy, despite Peggy's efforts to help. Joan is still in her downward spiral, less powerful in the office, helpless at home, and continually obsessing over Vietnam. Meanwhile, Don Draper (Jon Hamm) finally pulls himself out of his spiral. After last week's instant classic episode, which was very tightly focused, this was a rather uncharacteristic episode with prolonged narration from Don and a jumble of different scenes that felt like transitions away from old storylines.
Peyton Place.
- 9/13/2010
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
The reports of Don Draper's descent into chaos have been greatly exaggerated. "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword," a distinctly odd title for those who were not students of anthropology, sociology, or history, is a significant improvement over last week's episode. Much more happened in this episode, and there was a sense of greater forward motion. There be spoilers ahead, as usual. Incidentally, you can see all my Mad Men pieces, from this year and last year, here in The Mad Men File. Let's get the title out of the way first. It's a direct reference to a famous book, published in 1946 by anthropologist Ruth Benedict, a close associate of Margaret Mead. Benedict, sadly, died not long after, but her work lived on. In particular this book, which drew from a series of papers Benedict prepared during World War II for American...
- 8/25/2010
- by William Bradley
- Huffington Post
Margaret Mead Film and Video festival has extended the deadline for submissions for the 2010 festival to June 1st. The earlier deadline for submission was May 3.
The Mead Fest considers documentary films and videos (including shorts, experimental films, essay films, animation, and new media) which have been produced in the last three years.
The American Museum of Natural History’s Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival is the longest-running showcase for international documentaries in the United States. Organized by the Museum’s Public Programs Division in the Department of Education, the Festival is held each November and a Traveling Festival, which includes a selection of titles from the Festival, travels to museums, universities and theaters around the United States and abroad.
The Mead Fest considers documentary films and videos (including shorts, experimental films, essay films, animation, and new media) which have been produced in the last three years.
The American Museum of Natural History’s Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival is the longest-running showcase for international documentaries in the United States. Organized by the Museum’s Public Programs Division in the Department of Education, the Festival is held each November and a Traveling Festival, which includes a selection of titles from the Festival, travels to museums, universities and theaters around the United States and abroad.
- 5/6/2010
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder is the sort of book that you might avoid out of fear of spending hours curled up in a little ball crushed by the horrendous injustice in the world or shaking with rage and ranting incoherently for the same reason, but it's not. While it's true that Kidder, in his portrait of the amazing work that Paul Farmer and his cohorts at Partners in Health (Pih) do, doesn't shy away from the inexcusable conditions in Haiti (and Peru and the prisons of Russia, and elsewhere), I found the book to be mostly hopeful. Which, I think, is Farmer's point.
At some point in the book, one of the Pih members uses the following quote from Margaret Mead, "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever does." And that perfectly encapsulates what Pih does.
At some point in the book, one of the Pih members uses the following quote from Margaret Mead, "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever does." And that perfectly encapsulates what Pih does.
- 1/14/2010
- by Dustin Rowles
Chicago – Ric O’Barry made the world fall in love with dolphins. He captured and trained the five dolphins used in the classic TV series, “Flipper.” But as he learned more about these extraordinarily intelligent, self-aware creatures, he became increasingly disturbed about the detrimental effects of their captivity.
And when one of the show’s star dolphins committed suicide in his arms, by refusing to inhale one more breath, O’Barry decided to dedicate the rest of his life to being an animal activist. His battles with the captivity industry lie at the heart of Louie Psihoyos’s “The Cove,” which was recently named the year’s best documentary by the National Board of Review.
DVD Rating: 5.0/5.0
Like “Man on Wire,” “The Cove” has the rhythm and urgency of a thriller, as its human subjects repeatedly put themselves in danger while trying to capture footage that couldn’t be retrieved legally.
And when one of the show’s star dolphins committed suicide in his arms, by refusing to inhale one more breath, O’Barry decided to dedicate the rest of his life to being an animal activist. His battles with the captivity industry lie at the heart of Louie Psihoyos’s “The Cove,” which was recently named the year’s best documentary by the National Board of Review.
DVD Rating: 5.0/5.0
Like “Man on Wire,” “The Cove” has the rhythm and urgency of a thriller, as its human subjects repeatedly put themselves in danger while trying to capture footage that couldn’t be retrieved legally.
- 12/10/2009
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
The 33rd annual Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival will screen 33 films, including documentaries and other non-narrative works, animation, experimental films and indigenous media, at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
The event will open Nov. 12 with the Gotham premiere of Peter Kerekes' "Cooking History," in which the helmer tours 20th century battlefields by revisiting mess halls and field kitchens and having the cooks re-create the meals they served on the front lines. Reliving the battles while they prepare these military meals, the cooks are proud of their roles in serving their countries but are haunted by the horrors of war.
The local premiere of Raffaele Brunetti and Marco Leopardi's "Hair India" will close the fest Nov. 15. Centered on a Hindu belief that the only way to repay a debt to the gods is by sacraficing one's hair, the film follows the course of this...
The event will open Nov. 12 with the Gotham premiere of Peter Kerekes' "Cooking History," in which the helmer tours 20th century battlefields by revisiting mess halls and field kitchens and having the cooks re-create the meals they served on the front lines. Reliving the battles while they prepare these military meals, the cooks are proud of their roles in serving their countries but are haunted by the horrors of war.
The local premiere of Raffaele Brunetti and Marco Leopardi's "Hair India" will close the fest Nov. 15. Centered on a Hindu belief that the only way to repay a debt to the gods is by sacraficing one's hair, the film follows the course of this...
- 10/14/2009
- by By Tricia Ro
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The 33rd Annual Margaret Mead Film & Video Film Festival, the documentary festival named after the pioneering anthropologist, will run from November 12-15 at New York’s American Museum of Natural History. The opening night film, Péter Kerekes’s “Cooking History,” tours 20th century battlefields, asking cooks to recreate the dishes they served to their troops. Sunday’s closing night film will be Raffaele Brunetti and Marco Leopardi’s “Hair India,” a doc about the …...
- 10/13/2009
- Indiewire
Over consecutive days this week, the 26-member Broadway cast of Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical, will be announced by Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director of The Public Theater. The next Hair cast members to be confirmed are Steel Burkhardt (Electric Blues Quartet, Tribe), Allison Case (Crissy), Andrew Kober (Margaret Mead, Dad, Tribe), Darius Nichols (Hud) and Kacie Sheik (Jeanie, Tribe), all of whom are reprising their roles from Central Park last summer.
- 1/29/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
Even more inspiring than the voter registration video we posted yesterday, the Creative Coalition encourages us to vote with a quote from Margaret Mead: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCcLzu3jz1M “For too long the entertainment community has been accused of [...]...
- 10/7/2008
- by Ryan Adams
- AwardsDaily.com
Both conventions were heavy on sex and lies. About videotape, I don't know.
I do know Denver and St. Paul had almost as many hookers as delegates. In fact, one whole state got a group rate.
I also know that when Dems talked up health care, out came the condoms. For the Republicans, Viagra. The Democrats are into oil in the pipeline. For the Gop it's more natural gas.
I'm told the work was harder in St. Paul. Because John McCain's mantra is conserving energy. I'm told the work was more creative in Denver. Because Barack Obama's into changing positions.
I do know Denver and St. Paul had almost as many hookers as delegates. In fact, one whole state got a group rate.
I also know that when Dems talked up health care, out came the condoms. For the Republicans, Viagra. The Democrats are into oil in the pipeline. For the Gop it's more natural gas.
I'm told the work was harder in St. Paul. Because John McCain's mantra is conserving energy. I'm told the work was more creative in Denver. Because Barack Obama's into changing positions.
- 9/7/2008
- by By CINDY ADAMS
- NYPost.com
For the Museum of Television & Radio, it's an archeological discovery rivaling anything ever turned up by Louis Leakey or Margaret Mead. After nearly 30 years of searching, the museum has obtained a complete recording of CBS' landmark 1954 drama Twelve Angry Men, which earned Emmy Awards for writer Reginald Rose and director Franklin Schaffner and a best actor trophy for Robert Cummings. As part of the Twelve Angry Men acquisition, the museum also has acquired five hours of historic radio news coverage of the famed 1935 Lindbergh baby murder trial of Bruno Hauptmann. The radio coverage and commentary on the legendary trial for New York-area station WHN was anchored by Samuel Leibowitz, a famed defense attorney of the day, whose children owned copies of his broadcasts as well as the Twelve Angry Men kinescope.
- 4/16/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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