Stephen Hughes
Dr Stephen Putnam Hughes joined RAI Film in 2020. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago and taught for decades at SOAS, University of London, where he taught anthropology of media, visual anthropology, documentary, and ethnographic film. His research focuses on the anthropology of media practice in Tamil-speaking south India. He has been […]
Hatty Bell
Hatty joined RAI Film in 2023. She is an anthropology evangelist, film director, curator and photographer. She earnt her master’s in visual Anthropology from Goldsmiths University College and later worked as a self-shooting filmmaker and photographer in industry for seven years. Her practice is motivated by a will to use intimate, visual storytelling to advocate […]
RAI Film Festival 2025 – call for entries
SUBMIT YOUR FILM HERE Film submission deadline- 30 August 2024
Festival time
By Caterina Sartori Festival time: that fast-paced, heightened time when everything seems to be happening at once. So many films to see, so many people to talk to, so much to think about. Choices to make. Back-to-back screenings, big conversations, and parties. The hours blend into one another, day turns into night, all a blur […]
RAI-FF 2021 Prize and award winners
THE RAI FILM PRIZE Awarded biennially since 1980, this prize is for `the most outstanding film on social, cultural and biological anthropology or archaeology’. The value of the prize is £500. Winner: A Colombian Family (dir. Tanja Wol Sørensen)Commendation: Ayouni (dir. Yasmin Fedda)Special mention: Survivors (dir. WeOwnTV) THE BASIL WRIGHT FILM PRIZE Awarded biennially since […]
Judges
The RAI Film Prize and the Basil Wright Film Prize WILEY BLACKWELL STUDENT FILM PRIZE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE & MARSH SHORT FILM PRIZE THE RICHARD WERBNER AWARD FOR VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY ETHNOMUSICOLOGY FILM AWARD
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RAI Film Festival conference 2021
Creative Engagement with Crisis At the present moment crises appear to be everywhere – whether they be health, ecological, climatic, social, industrial, political, collective or personal. Whilst Covid-19 has catapulted us into an unprecedented global situation, anthropologists have been grappling with crises of various kinds and magnitudes well before this moment. We asked those working […]
RAI Film Festival 2021
Pages in this section RAI-FF 2021 Prize and award winners RAI Film Festival conference 2021 Supporters Judges Load More 2021 Films Suspension (2019) – Matt Langley Suspension (2019) charts a journey of human folly in the face of an unrelenting natural world and an unreliable government. It follows the conception and attempted construction of the […]
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