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Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival the longest running international documentary showcase in the United States

For tickets: 212 769 5200 • Festival office: 212 769 5305 • www.amnh.org/mead Festival Highlights 2008 – Celebrating 32 Years

OPENING NIGHT CLOSING NIGHT IN THE LAND OF THE HEAD HUNTERS THROW DOWN YOUR HEART Edward S. Curtis • 1914 • 65 min • Canada/U.S. Sascha Paladino • 2008 • 97 min • Uganda/ Friday, November 14 Tanzania/The Gambia/Mali/U.S. 7:00 pm, Program F1 Sunday, November 16 7:30 pm, Program F21 The Kwakwaka’wakw who populate Alert Bay, British Columbia, are perhaps the most studied First Nation peoples Ugandan folk singer Haruna Walusimbi tells us that music in North America. One of the many to photograph them permeates everything in life. Even when someone loses a was American photographer Edward S. Curtis, famed for his loved one, he explains, “their crying is musical.” It is this extensive documentation of North American tribes, complete integration of music with daily living that infamous for posing his subjects with garb and props not American banjo maestro Béla Fleck goes in search of across authentic to their . In 1914, Curtis transferred his way Africa. Trailed by his filmmaker brother Sascha Paladino, of working to the moving image, making this silent-era Fleck sets out to find the origins of the banjo said to have melodrama rooted in native myths and embellished by his come from the continent’s west coast. Along the way he own romantic ideas. For the Kwakwaka’wakw, who have records with thumb-piano wizard Ruth Akello, Tanzanian encountered many over the years, the film singer Anania Ngoliga, Malian pop star Oumou Sangare, and now stands as a documentary of the faces of their ancestors, a group of young Maasai who use only their voices and body recorded at a time when their own dances, rituals, and movements to create their one-of-a-kind sound. While Fleck languages were outlawed by the Canadian government.The clearly causes a sensation as he is welcomed there, the Coast Orchestra, a Native American classical ensemble, will filmmaker has the wisdom to keep the spotlight on the local perform the film’s original score, composed by Gilbert and talent, never losing sight of the reason they came. Sullivan collaborator John J. Braham. This presentation of the newly restored 35mm print, accompanied by a discussion with Kwakwaka’wakw community members, reframes this complex cinematic landmark. Film Restoration: UCLA Film & Television Archive John Braham Score: The Getty Research Library

For 32 years, the Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival i n t he f ie l d w i t h f r a n z bo as a n d f r om t he mo u t hs o f babes

d has brought documentaries from around the world z o r a n ea l e h u r s t o n Children are born with an innocence and curiosity that is often to the Museum’s theaters. Begun as an exhibition Considered the father of modern , worked lost as they face the realities of daily life. For many children harsh a of ethnographic films by anthropologists who extensively with the Kwakwaka’wakw people of British Columbia, truths breach their worlds at too tender an age. Watching these recording their culture, language, and mythology using ever- e were recording seemingly remote from our children express their desire to thrive or, more plainly, live is a own, the Festival has also come to embrace the pioneering techniques. From these many exchanges, lasting learning experience for us all. A riveting series of films has emerged documentary as an evolving art form. So much more relationships formed and anthropological theories were devised at this year’s Mead — that of the unique perspective of children M than a record of communities and events, the and revised. In this celebration of the 150th year of Boas’s birth, and how they persevere against all odds. Kim Longinotto’s Hold Me

documentary employs techniques traditionally Revisiting Franz Boas and t he Nor t h west Coast honors his Tight, Let Me Go chronicles emotionally disturbed children sent

e reserved for fiction films,such as animation,dramatic contribution to anthropology and his revolutionary use of the visual to a last resort boarding school in England. Alexandra Westmeier’s interpretation, and portraiture. As always at the image to examine human behavior. Through films and discussions, Alone in Fou r Wal ls portrays several Russian teenagers imprisoned h Mead, we offer exposure to worlds perhaps foreign we will examine the impact of anthropological studies on the at a reform school. In March Poin t, Annie Silverstein allows three

t to our experience — African thumb-piano players, Kwakwaka’wakw and how this First Nation has reclaimed their right troubled Native American teens to speak for themselves as they Laotian bomb technicians, primate scientists in to define themselves. Also in celebration of Boas’s legacy, the Mead fight for environmental rights. Closer to home, Nu rsery University, presents Visions of Zora Neale Hu rston. A renowned writer and

o Abkhazia, prostitutes in Phnom Penh, Manhattan by Mark Simon and Matthew Makar, follows a group of young pre-schoolers — all portrayed in a variety of Harlem Renaissance intellectual, Hurston studied with Boas at parents as they enter the maelstrom of finding the perfect t . Under his tutelage, she used the moving image

documentary styles. Yet the experience should be pre-school for their toddlers. Whether heart-breaking or uplifting about more than observing our world and the to capture communities in action as part of her anthropological or both, these films remind us that these children who will e pleasure of watching films. Just as you would fieldwork. A diverse panel of speakers shares photography, archival inherit our world are already living deep within it. This series also comment on the artifacts and animals as you stroll films, and anecdotes as a tribute to Hurston’s pioneering work. includes: Bomb Harvest and Gandhi’s Children.

m the Museum’s exhibition halls, we encourage you to discuss what you see on the screen with fellow c l ima t e ch a n ge Climate Change is organized by the American Museum of Natural History, New York (www.amnh.org), in collaboration with the Abu Dhabi Authority o audience members during the many post-film Powerful hurricanes pound the Caribbean, prolonged drought in for Culture & Heritage, United Arab Emirates; The Cleveland Museum Australia provokes a global rice shortage, jellyfish overpopulation c Q&As, with the person sitting beside you, or over of Natural History; The Field Museum, Chicago; Instituto Sangari, São Paulo,

l coffee with friends. The hope is that long after the threatens the Mediterranean, seas rise in the Pacific Islands and Brazil; Junta de Castilla y León, Spain; Korea Green Foundation, Seoul; Festival ends you will continue to share with others the Arctic. Evidence of the human impact on global weather Natural History Museum of Denmark,Copenhagen;Papalote Museo del Niño, e Mexico City, Mexico; and Saint Louis Science Center. what you’ve seen — perhaps even until the Festival patterns is all around us. The Czech Republic’s Peace wit h Seals, rolls around again next year. about the disappearing Mediterranean monk seal, and Recipes for Climate Change: The Threat to Life and A New Energy Future is proudly Disaster, which explores one ’s quest to reduce their carbon presented by Bank of America W Ariella Ben-Dov, Festival Director footprint, are two new documentaries recording the further toll Major support has also been provided by the Rockefeller Foundation on biodiversity. Through these films and accompanying panel Additional support for Climate Change and its related educational discussions, the Mead examines if we can reverse course and avert programming has been provided by Mary and David Solomon, the Betsy and Jesse Fink Foundation, the Linden Trust for Conservation, impending disaster. This series also includes March Poin t. and the Red Crane Foundation. Ticket Information amnh.org/mead

All screenings are held at the To Order Ticket Prices General Public $10 American Museum of Natural History By Phone Members/Students/Senior Citizens $ 9 Entrance for screenings is on 77th Street between Call 212 769 5200 Monday – Friday, 9 am –5 pm; Saturday, 9 am –4 pm Central Park West and Columbus Avenue Opening Night film and reception $ 45 Have your credit card, membership category, and with filmmakers (F22) B (weekdays only) or C train to 81st Street program codes ready when you call. limited to 50 Museum of Natural History A service charge applies. 1 train to 79th Street Online Friend of the Festival $ 99 Visit www.amnh.org/mead The Friend of the Festival (F23) M79, M7, M11, M86, M10, M104 A service charge applies. package includes: On-site Purchase •Invitation to the Opening Night film Tickets are not refundable Mid-October – November 14 and reception for two Tickets may be purchased during Museum hours Programs are subject to change.Please check our website • 6 tickets – your choice of programs; please at the Advance Group Sales desk in the Theodore specify program codes when ordering for the most current schedule and updated information. Roosevelt Rotunda (Central Park West at 79th Films are shown in a number of different program Street entrance), and at the Rose Center for Earth and Space (81st Street entrance). formats, ranging from a single full-length movie to Bring the Mead Traveling Film & Video multiple short films. Ticket prices are per program. Tickets No service charge. may be purchased in advance for any program on the November 14–16 Festival to your community! A selection of Festival schedule. Each program is identified by a During the festival, tickets may be purchased at the 2008 program is available for rental by program code. Please refer to the program code when the 77th Street entrance only, between Central ordering tickets. Park West and Columbus Avenue, one hour prior your university, museum, or theater. Visit to show. No service charge. our website at www.amnh.org/mead.

Schedule

Friday, Nov. 14 Saturday, Nov. 15 t r r Saturday, Nov. 15 r Saturday, Nov. 15 r 7:00pm Program F1 12:30pm Program F2 1:00pm Program F6 2:00pm Program F10 e e e e In the Land of the Peace with Seals Umbrella d Revisiting Franz Boas and t t t Head Hunters t Under Construction Don't Let It All Unravel r the Northwest Coast a a a n Opening Night 3:00pm Program F3 a 4:00pm Program F7 4:30pm Program F11 Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go River of No Return Paper Cannot Wrap e e e e Up Embers 5:30pm Program F4 6:00pm Program F8 h h h Nursery University Today the Hawk Takes 7:00pm Program F12 C h The Guarantee One Chick n Shorts Program:

T T The Pests T o 8:15pm Program F9 8:30pm Program F5 e Recycle

Body of War Alone in Four Walls l The Sinking Village e r n k p L e a n Sunday, Nov. 16 Sunday, Nov. 16 Sunday, Nov. 16 r o d a 1:00pm Program F15 1:30pm Program F20 12:00pm Program F18

F March Point Stone Pastures

e Gandhi’s Children Telling Stories n

e 4:00pm Program F16 4:30pm Program F19 P i m 4:00pm Program F14 Lioness Visions of Zora Neale L f

Bomb Harvest L Hurston 6:30pm Program F17

u 7:30pm Program F21 The Lost Colony 7:00pm Program F13 Throw Down Your Heart Recipes for Disaster a Closing Night K Alphabetical Listing

Alone in Saturday, November 15 A teenager stands up in class in rows at class, learning to kind but absent stepfather, 8:15pm; Program F9 and explains why his favorite use a gasmask, making their a remiss grandmother who color is black. Wearing black, beds, washing the hallway forgets to write. Breath- Four Walls Filmmaker in person (Allein in vier Wänden) he says, makes it easier to floors, in a woodshop cutting takingly shot with a painter’s escape into corners undetected wood. Intercut are interviews eye for color and composition, Alexandra Westmeier 2007 and to obscure the dirt on in which the boys describe Westmeier’s film allows these 85 min Russia/Germany his clothes. This scene is just their home life and the boys a freedom of expression NY Premiere one of the many in Alexandra offenses that brought them like they have never had nor Westmeier’s documentary to this place. Some speak of probably will ever get again. about adolescent boys alcoholism, beatings, theft, incarcerated at a Russian and grisly murders, Co-presenter: Goethe-Institut, reformatory that break the recounted in seemingly New York heart. Her patient camera indifferent tones. Other boys captures them sitting quietly cry remembering home, a

Body of War Saturday, November 15 On September 13, 2001, Phil Donahue (of American 2002 debate on the Senate 8:30 pm; Program F5 Kansas City native Tomas talk show fame) take an and House floors concerning Ellen Spiro and Young answered his country’s unflinching look at Young as Resolution 114, which Filmmakers in person Phil Donahue 2007 call to help hunt down “the he faces the realities of being granted George W. Bush the 87 min U.S. evildoers” who perpetrated in a wheelchair, conquering or right to invade Iraq at his NY Festival Premiere the 9/11 bombing of the Twin not the stuff of everyday life — own discretion. A ticker Towers and the Pentagon. like sitting up and getting notes every vote, both for Finding himself serving in dressed — that his injuries and against. As we relive the Iraq rather than Afghanistan, render extraordinary feats. rush to war, Young deals Young was hit in the spine by Interspersed among Young’s with its consequences. artillery fire after only one struggles to adjust to his week and sent home paralyzed body’s new limitations and from the chest down. his burgeoning antiwar Filmmakers Ellen Spiro and activism is footage of the fall

Bomb Harvest Sunday, November 16 From 1964 to 1973, the United years after the CIA-funded ordinance (UXO) still lying 4:00 pm; Program F14 States dropped a planeload secret war has ended. in wait. As these young Kim Mordaunt 2007 of cluster bombs (about 100 Filmmaker Kim Mordaunt technicians learn their new Filmmaker in person 88 min Laos/Australia per sortie) onto Laos every and producer Sylvia Wilczynski trade, we meet the villagers U.S. Premiere eight minutes, day and night — follow Australian Explosive haunted by the effects of the equivalent of more than Ordinance Disposal (EOD) this illegal war and encounter half a ton of bombs for every technician Laith Stevens the new economy that prizes man, woman, and child. Many as he trains young Laotians UXO for its scrap metal value. of these bombs still litter the to become certified bomb Laotian landscape and remain technicians themselves, Co-presenter: Human Rights live, rendering the largely learning to recognize and Watch International Film Festival poor, rural population neutralize the estimated 30 vulnerable to explosions 25 percent of unexploded

Don’t Let It Saturday, November 15 A short animated tale about 12:30 pm; Program F2 the environment. All Unravel (precedes Peace with Seals) Sarah Cox 2006 1 min Ireland U.S. Premiere

Gandhi’s Sunday, November 16 The Prayas Children's Home for Boys is located in one of the 12:00 pm; Program F18 poorest quarters of New Delhi. The residents, usually orphans, Children have run away from home or were picked up from the David MacDougall 2008 streets. One day, 181 boys arrive, having been rescued from a 185 min India/Australia child labor factory. Despite the harshness of their lives, many World Premiere of these children show extraordinary strength of character. Often left to their own devices, they institute a seemingly arbitrary set of checks and balances to make sense of the mayhem around them.

Co-presenter: Center for Media, Culture and History, New York University The Guarantee Saturday, November 15 A documentary about a dancer 5:30 pm; Program F4 with perfect form and a nose Jesse Erica Epstein 2007 (precedes Nursery University) that gets in the way of his 11 min U.S. career is drawn before our eyes. Filmmaker in person East Coast Premiere Even though his arabesques are superb, he cannot escape the shadow of his jutting proboscis. Hold Me Tight, Saturday, November 15 A master of observational documentary, award-winning director 3:00 pm; Program F3 Kim Longinotto opens a window onto the lives of the boys at Let Me Go England’s Mulberry Bush School. Celebrating its 60th anniversary, Kim Longinotto 2007 this innovative boarding school provides therapeutic care and 100 min U.K. instruction for children who have experienced early life trauma, East Coast Premiere neglect, or other emotional problems. Forty students excluded from traditional education find a last resort at Mulberry Bush, where they are allowed three years to learn how to control their emotions and actions. Harrowing and inspirational, Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go shows the difficult road to recovery each of these children face. The teachers handle the students’ violent and alarming outbursts with unwavering patience, slowly leading each child to uncover their own endearing natures.

Co-presenter: New York Women in Film and Television In the Land Friday, November 14 Discussion with Chief Bill Cranmer the U’mista Cultural Centre to Found in a Chicago area dumpster in 1947, this silent-era 7:00 pm; Program F1 and William Wasden, Jr. from follow film melodrama, made by American photographer Edward S. of the Head Curtis and featuring performances by the Kwakwaka’wakw of British Columbia, has finally been restored with help of the Hunters UCLA Film and Television Archive. Set in a time when the First Edward S. Curtis 1914 Nation peoples had not yet encountered Europeans, the film 65 min Canada/U.S. tells of Motana, the chief’s son, who must overcome many NY Premiere of restored challenges in the spirit and physical world to woo and win the 35mm print lovely Naida, a young girl whose bewitching dancing has the power to save her from the evil Sorcerer. This film screens with Film Restoration: live musical accompaniment by the Coast Orchestra, a Native UCLA Film & Television Archive American classical ensemble conducted by Timothy Long. John Braham Score: The Getty Research Library Co-presenters: Bard Graduate Center, Rutgers University, and U’mista Cultural Centre

Lioness Sunday, November 16 Five American women serve as (instituted by the Department intimate accounts, journal 4:00 pm; Program F16 part of Team Lioness, fighting in of Defense in 1994), these excerpts, and battlefield Meg McLagan and some of the bloodiest counter- women have never been seen footage, Lioness makes their Filmmakers in person Daria Sommers 2008 insurgency battles of the Iraq on television news or written story public for the first time. 81 min Iraq/U.S. War. Formally prohibited from about in the papers, yet they direct combat by the Ground have risked their lives to Co-presenter:Iraq & Afghanistan Combat Exclusion Policy serve their country. Through Veterans of America The Lost Colony Sunday, November 16 The Sukhum Primate Center in Abkhazia, the oldest primate community. Meanwhile, one guard searches the surrounding 6:30 pm; Program F17 research laboratory in the world, is crumbling. This once forests for any sign of members of the monkey colony (De Verloren Kolonie) prominent facility has been hailed for its strides in medical thought to have escaped from the lab during the 1992 military Filmmaker in person Astrid Bussink 2008 72 min research and space exploration. Founded in the , the conflict. Archival footage of the center’s glory days and Abkhazia/The Netherlands institute now strives for relevance amid Abkhazia’s struggle present-day activities captured at a detached remove are U.S. Premiere for independence from Georgia, dwindling funds, and the combined with stunning images of the decaying buildings loss of a large portion of its animals to a modern lab in and grounds. Now, with recently renewed fighting between neighboring Russia. On the cusp of its 80th anniversary, film- Georgia and Russia over Abkhazian and South Ossetian maker Astrid Bussink visits the lab as it prepares for a independence, Bussink’s ironic take on this seemingly hopeless conference designed to drum up support in the scientific situation becomes prescient.

March Point Sunday, November 16 Two oil refineries pollute Swinomish land in Washington 1:00 pm; Program F15 State. For centuries, this Native American community has Annie Silverstein 2008 been dependent on the natural resources of the Skagit Valley Filmmaker and producer 56 min U.S. for its livelihood. Now the refineries not only threaten the in person NY Premiere environment but also the economy of the native people. Intent on finding solutions, three teenage members of the Swinomish Tribe arm themselves with cameras and travel across the country to meet the politicians who can help. With lighthearted candor, Cody, Nick and Travis transform their own troubled lives as they learn about their culture and their environment.

Co-presenters: National Museum of the American Indian and Riverkeeper Nursery Saturday, November 15 Mandell, Calhoun, the 92nd Street Y, Epiphany, City and microcosm of monied Manhattanites who approach 5:30 pm; Program F4 Country. You’d think it was the Ivy League the way these the task of educating their barely verbal children with University (preceded by The Guarantee) parents act. Agonizing over minutiae in application questions, the tunnel vision of religious fanatics. You’ll laugh, redialing the phone with furrowed brows, sending gifts and you’ll cry. You’ll be thankful your kids are grown. Marc Simon and Filmmakers in person Matthew Makar 2008 making donation pledges, finagling influential contacts. 90 min U.S. These are how five sets of New York City parents spend the NYC Premiere early days of September trying to get their two-year-olds into preschool. It’s a make-or-break situation for the parents, investment bankers and business professionals mostly, who believe these are the feeder schools for later admission into Harvard, Yale, and Brown. Whether it’s true or not occurs to only a few them, including a school director and a couple from Greenwich Village with more than college on their minds for their toddler. Built on the suspense of who gets in and who doesn’t, this film is an amusing ride through the Paper Cannot Saturday, November 15 Rithy Panh continues his of the Khmer Rouge and beset moments that range from 4:30 pm; Program F11 masterful exploration of by the juggernaut of global expressions of quiet despair Wrap Up Embers contemporary Cambodia and capitalism, these women eek to the sharing of intimacies Rithy Panh 2006 the legacy of its recent past out an existence in a decaying and mutual comfort. 91 min Cambodia/France through the stories of young apartment building in Phnom East Coast Premiere women forced into prostitution Penh. Away from men and the Co-presenter: to survive. Living in the wake noise of the street, Paper offers Tribeca Film Festival Peace with Seals Saturday, November 15 Monk seal specialist Emanuele Coppola and director 12:30 pm; Program F2 Miloslav Novák are on the hunt for any trace of a real, live (Mír s Tuleni) Mediterranean monk seal. Conversations with marine Filmmaker in person Miloslav Novák 2007 biologists and philosophers as well as the beachgoers on the 58 min Italy/Czech Republic Panel discussion to Mediterranean shores who have supplanted the seals lead U.S. Premiere follow film them to believe that the only monk seals left are those preserved in Coppola’s extensive collection of archival footage. Presented as a wistful documentary fable, the film might well stand as a warning sign for more ominous things to come.

Co-presenter: London International Documentary Film Festival

The Pests Saturday, November 15 When termites, lice, silverfish, zappers, and other In The Pests, neatniks and 7:00 pm; Program F12 bedbugs, roaches, moths, and insecticides, they do their entomophobes obsess about (Tuholaiset) (with Recycle and wasps invade, experts from chemical best to remove the their worst fear, the common Katja Lautamatti and The Sinking Village) entomologists to extermina- pests. Sometimes, however, everyday bugs that don’t Mina Laamo 2007 tors are called in. Wielding the problem requires a respect our human limits. 39 min Finland sprays and bombs, electric different kind of professional. U.S. Premiere Recipes for Sunday, November 16 Filmmaker John Webster manageable enough at first. green living, Recipes for 7:00 pm; Program F13 insists on kicking his family’s But after a few weeks Disaster is a captivating addiction to oil for an entire forfeiting all goods packaged family drama as well as a Disaster Panel discussion to year. The “no oil diet”— in plastic — shampoo, reminder of the myriad daily John Webster 2008 follow film 63 min Finland no driving, flying, and no makeup, gel, toothpaste, and indulgences that contribute U.S. Premiere more plastic (a petroleum- toilet paper — things sour to our carbon footprint. based product) — seems quickly. An experiment in Recycle Saturday, November 15 In the Echo Park section of parked van, collecting away items he’s collected to 7:00 pm; Program F12 Los Angeles lives homeless recyclables to earn a living. make a community garden in Vasco Nunes and (with The Pests and poet Miguel Diaz. Recovering Shot in striking 35mm, this the median of his street and Ondi Timoner 2004 The Sinking Village) from substance abuse, he short documentary follows offers his insights on survival 6 min U.S./Portugal sleeps inside a permanently Diaz as he uses all the thrown- and nature.

Revisit ing Saturday, November 15 In honor of the sesquicentennial of the birth of Franz Boas, the 2:00 pm; Program F10 Mead revisits the culture of the Kwakwaka’wakw, possibly Fra nz Boas the most heavily studied First Nation peoples. Chief Bill Cranmer and William Wasden, Jr. from the U’mista Cultural Centre in a nd t h e Alert Bay, British Columbia, along with AMNH Northwest Aaron Glass, will present clips from Glass’s In Search of the Hamat’sa (2004) and Chuck Olin’s Box of Treasures (1983), Coast which when viewed together expose the changing face of anthropological studies and testify to the tenacity of this culture threatened with extinction.

Co-presenter: U’mista Cultural Centre River of Saturday, November 15 Frances Djulibing wants to become a movie star. As a child Co-presenter: Center for Media, Culture and History, 4:00 pm; Program F7 growing up in the remote community of Nangalala in New York University Australia’s Northern Territory, Frances recalls idolizing Marilyn No Return Filmmaker and film subject Monroe for her “sweet voice.” When she is cast in the film Darlene Johnson 2008 in person 52 min Australia Ten Canoes, the 42-year old takes it as a sign of things to East Coast Premiere come and begins to cultivate her acting career. Her desire to leave her community and study acting at the Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts in Queensland conflicts directly with her desire to stay in Nangalala and help raise her grandchildren the way she was raised, steeped in cultural traditions. River of No Return is a story of transformation as Frances learns to navigate two oppositional worlds, the ancient life of her people, the Yolngu, and the modern world of balanda, or white culture.

The Sinking Saturday, November 15 The Hungarian village of from national authorities, so people are moving away from 7:00 pm; Program F12 Medgyesbodzás is slowly the middle-aged Jószef turns the village, while those Village (with The Pests and Recycle) sinking, and its inhabitants to the European Union. Ever remaining speculate on who’s (A Sullyedo Falu) are baffled. Their houses optimistic, he makes a short to blame: oil companies, the are propped up and riddled film in which he and the waterworks, or the soil itself. Márton Szirmai 2007 with cracks and holes. The other villagers tell their story. 23 min Hungary U.S. Premiere village receives very little help In the meantime, young Stone Pastures Sunday, November 16 Director Donagh Coleman uses the Himalayas as a backdrop 1:30 pm; Program F20 to follow a family of goat and yak herders as they spend a Donagh Coleman 2008 year preparing pashmina wool for market. Their livelihood Filmmaker in person 65 min Himalayas/Ireland depends on the income from the wool, and every member of World Premiere the family, from young children to grandparents, helps with the painstaking process of nurturing the baby goats through the harsh winter, sheering their bellies, separating the wool one strand at a time, and finally weaving blankets. The family struggles to send two boys to school. They successfully drop their inquisitive seven-year-old Kunsang at boarding school far from home, but fourteen-year-old Padma finds his way back home, to the grueling work and the family he loves.

Co-presenter: Rubin Museum of Art

Telling Stories Sunday, November 16 Ãgtux is the Maxakali Indian of Minas Gerais to Bahia on experimental documentary 1:00 pm; Program F15 word for storytelling. These the northeast coast. Now techniques and animation, (Ãgtux) (precedes March Point) native Brazilians have rich reduced to merely 1,200 in this film imagines the Tania Anaya 2006 traditions of art and music and number, they live in misery Maxakali restored to their 22 min Brazil once roamed the breadth of on a tiny reservation in the former glory. East Coast Premiere Brazil from the mining state Valley of Mucuri. Using Co-presenter: Cinema Tropical Throw Down Sunday, November 16 Multiple Grammy-winner Béla Fleck travels to Uganda, 7:30 pm; Program F21 Tanzania, the Gambia, and Mali searching for the roots of the banjo, the instrument he loves so much. Part road Your Heart Filmmaker in person Sascha Paladino 2008 movie, part historical document, this fascinating film 97 min Uganda/Tanzania/ demonstrates the power of music and musicians to reach The Gambia/Mali/U.S. across cultural boundaries and the limitations of language NY Premiere to create an instant and abiding connection. Whether plaintive or pulsating, the infectious music in Throw Down Your Heart transports viewers into the heart of Fleck’s personal journey.

Co-presenter: World Music Institute

Today the Saturday, November 15 The Lubombo region of Swaziland suffers from the world’s 6:00 pm; Program F8 highest prevalence of HIV and a life expectancy that has dropped to 32 years. In this small, landlocked country in Hawk Takes Filmmaker in person southern Africa, a generation of parents has died, leaving the One Chick grandparents in charge of the children as well as responsible Jane Gillooly 2008 for retaining the threads of the fraying traditional life. 72 min Swaziland/U.S. Presented without an overt narrative structure or narration, NY Premiere the film’s drama emerges from the steady accumulation of details that tell a greater story of family in a world dictated by AIDS.

Co-presenter: African Film Festival Umbrella Saturday, November 15 An umbrella that is carried Xiaoping in 1978. “Socialism pace that belies the speed across a wheat field in with Chinese Characteris- with which these farmers (San) 1:00 pm; Program F6 (preceded by Under Construction) central China or the rainy tics” couched the upturning and their have to Du Haibin 2007 streets of Shanghai is made of the ideals of the Cultural adjust to these new changes, 93 min China in a factory in Guangdong Revolution in nationalist he shows us factory workers, East Coast Premiere and sold wholesale farther terms to soften the blow soldiers, students, merchants, up the coast in Zhejiang dealt to farmers once and hold-out farmers as Province. Tracking the life of glorified by the state. Haibin they scramble for livelihoods an umbrella from factory to is part of the Sixth Genera- and respect in the rush market, filmmaker Du Haibin tion of Chinese filmmaking, toward modernization and shows how the lives of which has proven unafraid to the glorification of wealth farmers in rural China have confront China’s dictatorial over traditional ideals. changed since the economic policies in the wake of reforms instituted by Deng Tiananmen Square. With a Co-presenter: Asian CineVision

Under Saturday, November 15 Shanghai’s old districts 100,000 inhabitants are those affected by the endless 1:00 pm; Program F6 are demolished in the name forced to leave their homes demolition, calling into Construction (precedes Umbrella) of regeneration. Displaced and move to the edges of the question the choice of Zhenchen Liu 2007 by bulldozers and wrecking city. Zhenchen Liu combines vertical development over 10 min China/France balls, families find themselves digitally re-mastered photo- building community. East Coast Premiere in search of a new neighbor- graphs with documentary hood. Every year, more than video footage to investigate Co-presenter: Asian CineVision Visions of Zora Sunday, November 16 Deborah Willis, photographer and historian of African American 3:30 pm; Program F19 photography at New York University, and Lonnie Graham, Neale Hurston photographer and professor of fine art at Penn State University, present photographs from Embracing Eatonville, their 2003 collection of images of the United States’ first all-Black municipality and childhood home of Harlem Renaissance author and accomplished anthropologist . Elaine Charnov, director of Education, Exhibitions, and Programs at the New York Public Library, presents orphan archival footage from Hurston’s fieldwork, tells of their discovery, and discusses some of the author’s pioneering work as an early ethnographic filmmaker.

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