Mead Film Festival

Thank you staff • friends • support


Honorary Chair
Mary Catherine Bateson
Advisory Committee
Michael Apted, Patsy Asch, Thomas D. Blakely, Emilie de Brigard, Robert Carneiro, Cynthia Close, Françoise Foucault, Faye Ginsburg, Rhoda Grauer, Bob Hawk, Laurel Kendall, David MacDougall, Judith MacDougall, Antonio Marazzi, Sevanne Martin, Louis Massiah, Patricia Monte-Mor, Bill Moyers, Lourdes Portillo, Somi Roy, Enid Schildkrout, André Singer, Florence Stone, Elizabeth Weatherford, Laila Williamson, Frederick Wiseman
Artistic and Festival Director
Ariella Ben-Dov
Festival Coordinators
Kathleen Maguire
Kellie Rogers
Brochure Editor
Shari Kizirian
Festival Assistant
Kira Lacks
Outreach Coordinator
Maya Mukhopadhaya
Design
Ross Culbert & Lavery,
Bud Lavery and Kathy Sobb
Web Design
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Anthropology Consultant
Monique Scott
Pre-Screening Committee
Leah Churner, Faye Ginsburg, Stella Hardee, Tamar Goelman, John Migliore, Yvonne Ng, Laura Terruso, Natalie Tschechaniuk
A very special thank you to
Lily Szajnberg, former Festival Coordinator
Festival Interns
Sami Chang, Tess Drahman, Max Engel-Streich, Stefanie Hoefer, Marisa O'Hara, Karin Oxford, Jacqueline Wang
Thanks
Barbara Abrash, Elizabeth Amorese, Amala Ankolekar, Patricia Aranibar, Natalia Babinski, Tom Baione, Tobias Bertram, John Biaggi, Mahen Bonetti, Kathy Boulukos, Juliane Camfield, Ernesto Ignacio de Carvalho, Tali Cherizli, Amalia Cordova, Maiken Tandgaard Derno, Rob DeSalle, James Devitt, Greg Dinkins, Wendy Ettinger, Sherine Fakoussa, Azadeh Fartash, Flavia Fontes, Ambassador Jarl Frijs-Madsen, Ann Goerdt, Carlos Gutièrrez, Gabrielle Hamilton, Thomas Allen Harris, Andrea Holley, Emily Hubley, Eva Jurinova, Melanie Kent, Mary Kerr, Adrienne Klein, Yanni Kotsonis, Brian Larkin, Sandrine Ligabue, R.A. McBride, Ann Michel, Tony Movshon, Jennifer Nedbalsky, Suzanne Nicholas, Carrie Oman, Luz A. Pereira, Masha Pyshkina, Silvia Rogozea, Elena Ryabova, Sara Savery, Aroon Shivdasani, Ron Simon, Krishna Stone, Aba Taylor, Dorothy Thigpen, Martha Tien, Pegi Vail, Elizabeth Weatherford, Peter Whiteley, Phil Wilde, Lynette Wiley, John Woo, Angela Zito, The Filmmakers
Thanks also to the following Museum Departments
Anthropology, Audio-Visual, Central Reservations, Communications/Marketing, Development, Education, General Accounting, Purchasing, Research Library, Rose Center Engineering, Visitor Services
Support
This Festival is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, celebrating 50 years of building strong, creative communities in New York State's 62 counties; Consulate General of Israel in New York; the Danish Film Institute; and the Polish Cultural Institute in New York.

Generous donation of projectors provided by Sony Professional Solutions of America.

Generous support for Brain: The Inside Story has been provided by the Eileen P. Bernard Exhibition Fund, Virginia Hearst Randt and Dana Randt, and Mary and David Solomon.

Co-presenters
AbyaYala Arte y Cultura
Peruvian Weaving: A Continuous Warp

Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts
In the Garden of Sounds

African Film Festival
When the Mountain Meets Its Shadow

Asian CineVision
When China Met Africa

Asia Society
Human Terrain

CEC ArtsLink
Osadné, Tankograd

The Center for Media, Culture, and History, NYU
Shooting with Mursi

The Center for Neural Science, NYU
The Electric Mind

The Center for Religion and Media, NYU
Shooting with Mursi

Center for Traditional Music and Dance
Pericles in America

Cinema Tropical
Because We Were Born, My Land

Consulate General of Denmark, New York
Tankograd

Consulate General of Israel in New York
The Electric Mind

Consulate General of the Slovak Republic
OsadnŽ

Consulate General of Switzerland
Barefoot to Timbuktu

Council for the Study of Disability, NYU
Eleanore & the Timekeeper, In the Garden of Sounds

Dance Theater Workshop
Tankograd

Consulate General of Denmark, New York
Tankograd

Department of Anthropology, Barnard College, Columbia University
In Comparison

Department of Anthropology, NYU
Human Terrain

Film and Video Center, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
Secrets of the Tribe

Goethe-Institut New York
Plug and Pray, In Comparison

The Greek Museum, The Center for Greek American Heritage
Pericles in America

Human Rights Watch Film Festival
Shelter in Place

International Center of Photography
Lantern Slides

Jalopy Theatre and School of Music
John Cohen (in America) films

New York Stereoscopic Society
Lantern Slides

Pachamama Peruvian Arts
Carnival in Q'eros: Where the Mountain Meets the Jungle

The Paley Center for Media
Circo

Polish Cultural Institute
By the River

Romanian Cultural Institute of New York
My Beautiful Dacia

Rooftop Films
Unearthing the Pen, Ghost Noise, The Final Chapter, By the River, Barren

Third World Reel
Shooting with Mursi

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