The Mead showcases the best in non-narrative filmmaking, encompassing a broad spectrum of work including international documentaries, experimental films, animation, hybrid works, and more.

The Festival presents documentaries that increase our understanding of the complexity and diversity of the peoples and cultures that populate our planet.

About the Traveling Festival

Bring international documentaries to your community with the 2012 Margaret Mead Traveling Film Festival. The 2012 Traveling Festival features select titles from the 2010 Margaret Mead Film Festival. The Mead Festival screens documentaries that increase our understanding of the complexity and diversity of the peoples and cultures that populate our planet. It has evolved with the times while maintaining its important history, growing steadily to reflect the ever-evolving incarnations of storytelling, which remain steeped in the documentary tradition.

2012 TRAVELING FESTIVAL PROGRAM

All for the Good of the World and Nošovice (Vše Pro Dobro Svčta a Nošovic)
Vit Klusák · 2010 · 82 min
Czech Republic
Convento
Jarred Alterman · 2011 · 54 min
Portugal, United States
The Creators
Laura Gamse · 2011 · 80 min
South Africa, United States
Grande Hotel
Lotte Stoops · 2011 · 70 min
Belgium, Mozambique

Memoirs of a Plague
Robert Nugent · 2011 · 77 min
Australia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Italy, Tanzania
Rainmakers
Floris-Jan van Luyn · 2009 · 70 min
China, The Netherlands
To the Light
Yuanchen Liu · 2011 · 69 min
China, United States

2011 TRAVELING FESTIVAL PROGRAM

Because We Were Born (Puisque nous sommes nés)
Jean-Pierre Duret and Andrea Santana · 2008 · 90 min
Brazil
In the Garden of Sounds (Nel giardino dei suoni)
Nicola Bellucci · 2010 · 85 min
Italy, Switzerland
A Mountain Musical (Eisenwurzen: Das Musical)
Eva Eckert · 2008 · 52 min
Austria

Plug & Pray (Von Computern und anderen Menschen)
Judith Malek-Mahdavi and Jens Schanze · 2009 · 91 min
Germany, Italy, Japan, United States
Shooting with Mursi
Olisarali Olibui and Ben Young · 2009 · 57 min
Ethiopia
There Once Was an Island: Te Henua e Nnoho
Briar March · 2010 · 80 min
Papua New Guinea

PRICING AND TECH SPECS

The Traveling Festival is comprised of six programs that can be exhibited separately or as a full festival.

The charge for exhibition is:

$300 per program
$1500 for the entire festival

The rental fee includes background and promotional information on titles, still images, preview DVDs for publicity purposes, and a guide for conducting film festivals and screenings. The Traveling Festival can be rented for a weekend marathon or over several weeks. Mead Artistic and Festival Director, Ariella Ben-Dov is also available to introduce screenings. Please inquire about the details.

For more information, or to book the Festival please contact us

2011 Traveling Festival Schedule

February – April, 2011 - Dutchess Community College, Poughkeepsie, NY
April 8, 9, 10, 2011 - University of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands
April 4 - 10 , 2011 - Etno Fim Festival, Rovinj, Croatia
April 15, 2011 - California State Long Beach, Long Beach, California
April 6, 2011 - University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
April 30 – May, 1 2011 - University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO
August – September, 2011 - Australia Museum, Sydney, Australia
January, 2012 - University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba

TRAVELING PROGRAM ARCHIVE