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Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival 2009 Call for Entries

The Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival is pleased to announce that the 2009
Call for Entries is officially open. We would greatly appreciate your help
spreading the word to your filmmakers, colleagues, and supporters. Please
forward the following announcement to your list. Let me know if this is
possible.

And don’t forget, the Mead Traveling Festival is available for rental. Bring
the Mead to your community! For a full list of available titles and more
information visit our website: http://www.amnh.org/programs/mead/traveling/.

Kind regards,
Natalie Tschechaniuk
ntschechaniuk@amnh.org
Festival Coordinator
Traveling Festival Manager

The Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival CALL FOR ENTRIES is now open.
The Mead is the longest running documentary film festival in the United
States. We are seeking a range of non-narrative works: feature and short
documentaries, experimental and essay films, animation, indigenous media,
and more. We’ve made it even easier to submit a film to the Mead.

* There are now two ways of submitting your work to the Festival:
Help us spread the word by passing this email along.

Mail us your film along with an entry form. All forms and guidelines can be
downloaded from our web site at: http://www.amnh.org/programs/mead/submit

Submit your film through Without A Box at:
http://www.withoutabox.com/login/1236

Don’t forget to SIGN UP:
Join the Facebook group Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival and get updates
about screenings and other Festival related events:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=34373299228&ref=ts

Please pass this on to your colleagues, friends, neighbors, students, and
resident filmmakers. The Mead Call for Entries is now OPEN! For more
information on submission requirements and other details, please check out
the guidelines and Mead FAQs on our website http://www.amnh.org/mead.
See you at the movies.

TRAVELING FESTIVAL
Each year, the Traveling Festival brings highlights from the Mead to sites
throughout the US and abroad, providing access to innovative work from
around the world. It is comprised of seven programs, each program between
one and two hours, depending on the length of the films. To book the
Traveling Festival or see our line-up go to:
http://www.amnh.org/programs/mead/traveling/

History of the Mead
The American Museum of Natural History’s Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival
is the longest-running showcase for international documentaries in the
United States. Encompassing a broad spectrum of work, from indigenous
community media to experimental nonfiction, the Festival is distinguished by
its outstanding selection of titles, which tackle diverse and challenging
subjects, representing a range of issues and perspectives, and by the forums
for discussion with filmmakers and speakers.

The Mead was founded by the American Museum of Natural History in 1977, in
honor of pioneering anthropologist Margaret Mead on her seventy-fifth
birthday and her fiftieth year at the Museum. A film festival represented an
especially apt form with which to celebrate Mead's life, as she was one of
the first anthropologists to recognize the significance of film for
fieldwork. To this day, the Festival continues to extend Mead's vision of
bringing important topics and viewpoints to a general public.

Organized by the Museum’s Public Programs Division in the Department of
Education, the Festival is held each November as well as a Traveling
Festival, which includes a selection of titles from the Festival. The
Traveling Festival shows at museums, universities and theaters throughout
the United States and abroad.

Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival
American Museum of Natural History
Central Park West at 79th Street
New York, NY 10024
http://www.amnh.org/mead // 212.769.5305

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