Calendar – Past Event

The Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival celebrates its 34th year at the American Museum of Natural History November 11-14. The Festival screens an outstanding and varied selection of 38 titles culled from more than 1,000 submissions and is distinguished by extraordinary films that tackle diverse and challenging subjects, as well as by exciting discussions with filmmakers and special guest speakers.

This year's films include Roscoe Holcomb--in which director John Cohen uses intimate footage as well as interviews with family and community members to trace the life of this seminal banjo player's early years (world premiere); Nadav Harel's The Electric Mind--an intimate portrait of an octogenarian widow, a middle-aged artist, and a pre-teen girl looking for relief from their brain disorders through cutting edge technologies and "awake" brain surgeries; and Nicola Bellucci's Nel Giardino dei Suoni (In the Garden of Sounds)---the extraordinary story of Wolfgang Fasser, a blind musician and therapist who uses sound to initiate dialogues with severely handicapped children, helping them uncover ways to express themselves and find a place in a world not designed for them. Kaufmann and Linder Theaters, first floor