FILM FESTIVAL DEADLINE APRIL 1st
May 29. - June 1st, 2008, NAFA (The Nordic Anthropological Film Association), The Museum of Jón Sigurðsson, The University Centre of West fjords, Edinborgarhúsið (a cultural centre in Ísafjörður) and Roots (a non- governmental organisation for multicultural society), will hold an international documentary film festival and a conference at Ísafjördur in the West fjords of Iceland, in association with University of Iceland and The Icelandic Anthropology Association.
Documentary Film Festival
The focus of this year’s festival will be on how people from many different parts of the world manage to overcome various difficulties (i.e. breaking barriers) in their daily lives. The films will therefore, explore the many different changes and dynamics that locally and globally are happening in remote areas in the world today. Breaking the barriers in this sense refers to the barriers that exit between and within cultures. However, changes and dynamics are not only taking place in various regions of the planet, but also between various academic disciplines. Therefore, several films will be shown where the filmmakers deliberately mix anthropology and art together, anthropology and history (or archaeology, geography, technology) in order to explore the world in a new and experimental way. The films will be selected by a NAFA selection committee (being established in January 2008) in consultation with the Icelandic organisers.
Conference
In addition to the film festival, where the films will be screened in the afternoons and evenings each day of the festival, there will be a conference with lectures each morning with national and foreign lecturers. International speakers who have confirmed their participation by the end of December 2007 include Jay Ruby, Asen Balikci, Rossella Ragazzi, and Sarah Pink. In addition, filmmakers and speakers are being specially invited from developing countries.
The film festival and the conference are open to everyone. The participation fee for both the film festival and the conference is 5000 Icelandic kr. (EUR 56.60) except for NAFA members, where the fee is 2500 Icelandic kr. (EUR 28.30, the NAFA annual membership fee is approx. 33.30 EUR).
Film submissions and contact information:
Films submitted for the festival should be sent as DVD/VHS preview copies, accompanied by a synopsis or a 10-line description and technical data, to:
The NAFA 2008 Selection Committee
c/o Peter I. Crawford
Intervention Press
Castenschioldsvej 7
DK-8270 Hoejbjerg
Denmark
The NAFA 2008 Selection Committee
c/o Peter I. Crawford
Intervention Press
Castenschioldsvej 7
DK-8270 Hoejbjerg
Denmark
Preliminary dead-line for submission: 1 April 2008.
For all other enquiries please send an e-mail to:
Valdimar J. Halldórsson, NAFA 2008 Organiser: hrafnseyri@hrafnseyri.is
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