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 […]
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 […]
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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
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 […]
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 Mocoa – San Francisco Bypass from 1991 to the project’s indefinite suspension in 2017. Director Simón Uribe Martínez tells the stories of the local people affected […]
Elder’s Corner (2020) – Matt Langley
Elder’s Corner (2020) follows the mission of British Nigerian musician and filmmaker Siji Awoyinka as he seeks to regain the lost voices of his rich musical heritage. Charting the movements of High Life music during colonial rule, and the nationalistic push for independence to joyous Juju and the pioneering of Afrobeat, Awoyinka reflects the country’s […]
The Two Lives of Li Ermao (2019) – Lucy James
For my first solo interview it was fair to say that I was extraordinarily nervous, not wanting to create an awkward atmosphere or say the wrong thing, but the second Kiki Yu popped up on my zoom screen, those nerves flushed away. Her kind presence instantly put me at ease, and to know how deeply […]
A Colombian Family (2020) – Harriet Crisp
A Colombian Family (Tanja Wol Sørensen, 2020) charts the difficult relationship of Yira and her politically-active mother Ruby against the backdrop of the conflict between the FARC rebel movement and the government in Colombia. Ruby is faced with a tough dilemma as Yira pleads with her to leave Colombia, a decision which would mean abandoning […]
VHS Diaries (2020) – Harriet Crisp
Niyaz Saghari’s 2020 documentary, VHS Diaries, is the tale of a defiant cinephile subculture that pursued their passion for cinema despite strict government restrictions and the threat of imprisonment in post-revolution Iran. Saghari collates diaries she wrote during the era of video censorship and her personal VHS film archive, alongside interviews with film historians, enthusiasts […]
