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Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival


Genre: Documentary

Run by the American Museum on Natural History, this festival screens documentaries about people and culture from around the world. It accepts films across a range of lengths and formats which have been made within the last three years of submission. Selected films that are world, North American or US premiere status may be eligible for the Margaret Mead Award. The festival has screened many Australian titles over the years.

 

SCREEN AUSTRALIA HAS NOT TRACKED SCREENINGS AND AWARDS AT THIS FESTIVAL SINCE 2010.


Screenings

2008 - Bomb Harvest

2007 - Our Brilliant Second Life

2007 - SchoolScapes

2004 - It's Like That!

2004 - Mr Patterns

2004 - Shared History: Stories from the Pacific Collection

2003 - Inheritance - A Fisherman's Story

2003 - Molly and Mobarak

2003 - Beyond Sorry

2002 - Bush Mechanics

2002 - Bush Mechanics

2002 - Wedding in Ramallah, A

2002 - Breaking Bows and Arrows

2002 - Gulpilil: One Red Blood

2001 - Joe Leahy's Neighbours

2001 - Cannibal Tours

2001 - First Contact

2001 - Half Life

2001 - Black Harvest

2001 - Diplomat, The

2001 - Cunnamulla

2001 - Facing the Music

2001 - Islands

2001 - Bush Mechanics

2001 - With Morning Hearts

2001 - Diya

2000 - Sadness

2000 - Stolen Generations

2000 - Soshin: In Your Dreams

1999 - Little Brother, Little Sister

1999 - Walking With My Sisters

1999 - Emily's Eyes

1999 - Paradise Bent...Boys Will be Girls in Samoa

1998 - Manyu Wana No 4

1998 - No Way to Forget

1998 - Conversations with Dundiwuy Wanambi

1998 - Mabo: Life of an Island Man

1998 - Night Patrol

1998 - Cracks in the Mask

1998 - Nyawa Kulila Wangka (Look, Listen, Speak)

1998 - Milerum: Whose Story?

1998 - Djet

1998 - Two Wise Men and the Seven Sisters, The

1998 - Bush Mechanics

1998 - Yirrkala Film Project, The

1997 - Advertising Missionaries

1996 - Colonists For A Day

1995 - My Life as I Live It

1995 - Motherland

1995 - Vegetable Mob, The

1995 - Harold

1995 - Sugar Slaves

1994 - Homelands

1994 - Blood Brothers

1994 - Milli Milli

1993 - Black Man's Houses

1993 - When Mrs Hegarty Comes to Japan

1993 - Tenth Dancer, The

1992 - Serpent and the Cross, The

1992 - Black Harvest

1992 - Valencia Diary

1991 - Market of Dreams

1991 - Cowboy and Maria in Town

1991 - Photo Wallahs

1991 - Talking Broken

1990 - Man Without Pigs

1989 - Joe Leahy's Neighbours

1989 - Riding The Gale

1989 - Song Of Air, A

1989 - Green Tea And Cherry Ripe

1989 - My Father, My Country

1989 - Margaret Mead And Samoa

1988 - Cannibal Tours

1988 - One Man's Response

1988 - Cane Toads: An Unnatural History

1987 - Uluru - An Anangu Story

1987 - We are the Landowners

1987 - What Is A Jew To You

1986 - Koori: A Will To Win

1986 - Messengers of the Gods

1986 - Couldn't Be Fairer

1986 - Dirt Cheap

1986 - Don't Call Me Girlie

1986 - Portrait of an Occultist

1986 - Red Matildas

1986 - Running From the Ghost

1986 - Sacred Vandals

1986 - Something of the Times

1986 - Towards Baruya Manhood

1986 - Waiting For Harry

1986 - When The Snake Bites The Sun

1986 - Yorky Billy

1986 - For Love or Money: A History of Women and Work in Australia

1986 - Half Life

1985 - Kemira: Diary Of A Strike

1984 - Lousy Little Sixpence

1984 - Shark Callers Of Kontu, The

1984 - Sons of Namatjira

1983 - Celso And Cora

1983 - First Contact

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2/05/2025
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