MARGARET MEAD FILM FESTIVAL
FREE weekend festival screening of nine award-winning cultural documentaries, hosted by the University of Manitoba Department of Anthropology. View the
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 16
6:40 PM - "SuperAmigos" Arturo Perez Torres. 2007. 82 min. Mexico/Canada. (14A)
Combining live action and comic book-style animation, the film follows the caped crusaders - Super Barrio, Super Animal, Super Ecologista, Super Gay and Fray Tormenta - on their mission to protect the underdog.
8:15 PM - "Grito de Piedra (Scream of the Stone)" Ton van Zantvoort. 2006. 59 mins. Bolivia/The Netherlands. (PG)
Depicting the lives of the workers of Bolivia's silver mines and as participants in a burgeoning cultural tourism industry, this film reveals the enduring power of colonial enterprise to shape life in South America.
9:15 PM - Guest speaker: filmmaker Ton van Zantvoort
SATURDAY, JANUARY 17
12:10 PM - "The Birthday" Negin Kianfar and Daisy Mohr. 2006. 63 min. Iran/The Netherlands. (14A)
Sexuality remains bound to tradition in modern Iran, and yet within this rigid structure, transexuals find a government supportive of their desire to be reborn through surgery.
1:15 PM - "The Thread of Karma" Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam. 2007. 52 min. India. (G)
The film offers an intimate look at the life of a young lama as he aspires to live up to the reputation of this former incarnation.
2:10 PM - Guest speaker: Gerry Kopelow (Lama Gyurme Dorje), Dharma Centre of Winnipeg
2:45 PM - "Promised Paradise" Leonard Retel Helmrich. 2006. 52 min. Indonesia/The Netherlands. (14A)
Jakarta-based puppeteer Agus Nur Amal travels to Bali to call to account the individuals responsible for the terrorist bombing of a Balinese nightclub in October 2002.
3:40 PM - "Stranger Comes to Town" Jacqueline Goss. 2007. 28 min. US. (PG)
This video re-purposes animations from the Department of Homeland Security, combining them with stories from the border, images from the online game World of Warcraft, and journeys via Google Earth, to tell a tale of bodies moving through lands familiar and strange.
6:10 PM - "The Water Front" Elizabeth Miller. 2007. 50 min. US. (PG)
In Highland Park, Michigan, local activists are dealing with economic justice and welfare rights fight to keep their community's water from being privatized.
7:05 PM - "Gimme Green" Isaac Brown and Eric Flagg. 2006. 27 min. US. (G)
"Gimme Green" is a super-real look at the American obsession with lawns, and their impact on our environment, our wallets, and our outlook on life.
7:35 PM - "Village of Dust, City of Water" Sanjay Barnela. 2006. 28 min. India. (PG)
A lyrical and chilling cine poem about social exploitation over access to water in India, where rural water supplies are redistributed to serve booming cities and whole communities are displaced to create dams.
8:00 PM - Panel discussion: The Politics of Water - Lynsay Perkins, documentary filmmaker; Bryan Oborne, Department of Environment and Geography, University of Manitoba; Dr. Kirit Patel, International Development Studies, Menno Simons College