Staff, Friends, Support
Honorary Chair
Mary Catherine Bateson
Advisory Committee
Michael Apted, Patsy Asch, Thomas D. Blakely, Emilie de Brigard, Robert Carneiro, Cynthia Close, Loni Ding, Françoise Foucault, Faye Ginsburg, Myles Gordon, 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, Jay Ruby, Enid Schildkrout, André Singer, Florence Stone, Elizabeth Weatherford, Laila Williamson, Frederick Wiseman
Festival Co-Directors
Elaine Charnov
Kathy Brew
Festival Coordinators
Gisela FosadoTamar Goelman
Festival Assistant
Natalie Tschechaniuk
Program Notes
Ellen SilbermannTraveling Festival Manager
Gisela Fosado
Volunteer Coordinator
Shannon Matlovsky
Design
Fulcrum, International
Design Solutions:
Olga Zhivov & Harriet Spear
Web Development
Michael HoffmanJeremy Hinsdale
Pre-Screening Committee
Barbara Abrash, Maria Fahey, Faye Ginsburg, Stella Hardee, Bob Kenney, Sevanne Martin, Valeria Mogilevich, Natan Vega Potler
Festival Interns
Steven Blum, Maria Cabo, Maya Desai, Ally Fan, Rebecca Fitzgerald, Dana Guterman, Madeleine Kronovet, Elizabeth Lattanzio, Ji Sun Lee, So-Rim Lee, Wonho Lee, Alison Manning, Meryleen Mena, Ana O'Keefe, David Piendak, Tori Wunsch
Thanks
Gulnara Abikeyeva, Barbara Abrash, Livia Alexander, Sally Berger, John Biaggi, Tania Blanich, Mahen Bonetti, Roberto Borrero, Nicolas Buchler, Bethany Bultmann, Bruni Burres, Jorge Chica, Jodi Crews, Andrea Csandi, Sarah Eisenstein, Faye Ginsburg, Jackie Glover, Roberto Guerra, Carlos Gutiérrez, Judith Helfand, Lisa Heller, Melanie Kent, Pooja Kohli, Katalin Koncz, Kay Leung, Barbara Mathe, Ann Michel, Griffin Monahan, Erika Dalya Muhammad, Rick Ortiz, Thom Powers, Morris Rossabi, Rajendra Roy, Rasha Salti, Suzanne Seggerman, Aroon Shivdasani, John Sirabella, Benjamin Stokes, Bruce Stutz, Aba Taylor, Maria-Christina Villaseñor, Marie Weller, Phil Wilde, Teddy Yoshikami, Angela Zito
Thanks also to the following
Museum Departments
Audio-Visual, Central Reservations, Communications/Marketing, Development, Education, General Accounting, Graphics, Research Library, Visitor Services
Support
This Festival is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
Additional support comes from the Arts and Culture Network Program, Open Society Institute, Budapest; The Consulate General of Canada, New York; National Film Board of Canada; The Netherlands Consulate-General, New York; and The Experimental Television Center's Presentation Funds Program, which is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts.
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Our Collaborators
American Documentary/P.O.V.Asia Society
Asian Cinevision
The Center for Religion and Media and the Center for Media, Culture and History at NYU
Cinema Tropical
Committee to Protect Journalists
Disability/Arts
Games for Change
Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
Indo-American Arts Council
Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America
Job Path
The Mount Vernon Hip-Hop Arts Center
New York ACORN
New York Irish Center
Open Society Institute
The Random House Publishing Group
Seed Media Group
The Vera List Center for Art and Politics, The New School
Look for a special Mead Festival presentation at MoMA as part of Documentary Fortnight in February 2007.
Bring the Margaret Mead Traveling Film & Video Festival to your community! Visit the 2006 Traveling Festival page to learn more.
Bring the Margaret Mead Traveling Film & Video Festival to your community! Visit the 2006 Traveling Festival page to learn more.
















