Submission Deadline For BEELD VOR BEELD Documentary Film Festival

Submission deadline: Monday March 15, 2010, 5 pm

BEELD VOOR BEELD is a documentary film festival dealing with cultural diversity. Rooted in visual anthropology, the festival screens documentaries on various (sub-)cultures in a format combining screenings, discussions and seminars on different themes. It offers a meeting place for filmmakers and audiences from different cultural backgrounds. All filmmakers will be present, and much attention is paid to the discussions between them and the audience.

Entry submission is open to every production that either deals with subjects of anthropology, sociology and social issues or fits in with the overall theme.

Pandora Blue(s)

The Center for Research and Documentation Chile-Latin America (FDCL) analyses the “Avatar” phenomenon and what the unexpected Oscar snub (in favor of Kathryn Bigelow’s Iraq war drama “The Hurt Locker”) means in terms of natural resource vs. indigenous rights discourse in Latin America. Read the full post in German here.

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Grownupism! 1Day, When I Grow Up!

PART LXXIV

So, as usual, I wuz sittin’ an’ stinkin’ ‘bout sunny skies, warm breezes an’ not havin’ to slip an’ slide on icy sidewalks an’ wear ten tonsa clothes.

I have to get up even earlier for skool, jesta have enuf extra time to put on alla my winter kamouflage clothes stuff, in order to hide from cold wind outside

I don’t know why my parents didn’t thinka growin’ me an’ my sister up in sum place warm all year roun’?! (more…)

WHEN CLOUDS CLEAR Co-Helmer Danielle Bernstein’s Next Project

Danielle Bernstein, co-director of WHEN CLOUDS CLEAR, has a new project in the works. Mothers of a Nation, a film, exhibition and outreach program produced and edited by Bernstein and directed and shot by photographer Ansley West. The film follows a group of five HIV positive women in Jinja, Uganda and how they find hope and empower themselves and their children through sustainable agricultural practices and nutrition. Here an update on the latest news. (more…)

Argentina: Remembering with Film | Victoria | 24.3., ACUD Kino, Berlin

FDCL

The 24^th of March is the anniversary of the 1976 military putsch in Argentina. This is not a reason to celebrate but it does represent a chance to look back, and remember. The military made tens of thousands people disappeared - had them murdered – during the 1976-1983 dictatorship. Although that dictatorship is history, the crimes committed by the murderers and their helpers have never been legally prosecuted. In memory of Argentina’s military putsch and dictatorship we are showing the documentary film Victoria , a story of a one’s person fate that represents a fate suffered by many. (more…)