We are delighted that dozens of filmmakers and world-leading thinkers will attend our biannual celebration of ethnographic film in Bristol 27-30 March. Here is who you can expect to meet at the Festival.
(N.B. this list is subject to change)
WEDNESDAY 27 MARCH
Filmmakers participating in screening Q&As:
- William Mitchell Russ (Lead actor, Edge of the Knife)
- Vitor Grunvald (Director, Sunday)
- Paulo Mendel (Director, Sunday)
- Luiza Folgetti (Director, King On, Brasil!)
- Aparna Sharma (Director, The Women Weavers of Assam)
- Mattijs Van de Port (Director, Knots and Holes. An Essay Film on the Life of Nets.)
Conference speakers:
- Sneha Mundari
- Ricardo Leizaola (Goldsmiths, University of London)
- Martha-Cecilia Dietrich (University of Bern)
- Renato Athias (PPGA / UFPE)
- Rodrigo Lacerda (CRIA / NOVA FCSH / ISCTE-IUL)
- Eric Bent
- Annie Watson (Sheffield Hallam University)
- Katharine Cox (Sheffield Hallam University)
- Roseline Lambert (Concordia University)
- Rachel McCrum
THURSDAY 28 MARCH
Filmmakers participating in screening Q&As:
- Doug Good Feather (Exec Producer, Awake, A Dream From Standing Rock)
- Martha-Cecilia Dietrich (Director, Horror in the Andes)
- Seemab Gul (Director, Zahida)
- Constanza Burstin (Director, Paani: Of Women and Water)
- Saranya Nayak (Director, Niishii)
- Angélica Cabezas Pino (Director, This Is My Face)
- Alexandra D’onofrio (Director, It Was Tomorrow)
- Clair Maleney (Director, Legacies)
- Karen Boswall (Director, Nhenha)
- Sine Plambeck (Director, Heartbound)
Conference speakers:
- Clarisse Destailleur (University of Leipzig)
- María Fernanda Carrillo Sánchez (UACM)
- Snezana Stankovic (Humboldt University of Berlin)
- Pavel Borecký (University of Bern)
- Pegi Vail (NYU)
- Toma Peiu (University of Colorado Boulder)
- David Robinson (Lancaster University)
- Cindi Alvitre (CSU Long Beach)
- Desiree Martinez (Cogstone Archaeology)
- Teri Brewer (Archaeoikon)
- Sue Giles (Bristol City Museum and Galleries)
- Wendy Teeter (Fowler Museum at UCLA)
- Aparna Sharma (UCLA)
- Arine Kirstein Høgel (Aarhus University)
- Mihai Andrei Leaha (University of Sao Paulo)
- Simon Robinson (Ravensbourne University London)
- Mark Westmoreland (Leiden University)
- Janine Prins (Leiden University)
- Onyeka Igwe (University of the Arts London),
- Ines Ponte (ICS-ULisboa)
- Sophie Schrago (University of Manchester)
- Robert Eagle (University of the West of England)
- Hugo Montero (Université Lumière Lyon 2)
- Angélica Cabezas Pino (University of Manchester)
- Mattia Fumanti (University of St. Andrews)
- Ming He (Yunnan University)
- Liang Zhang (Yunnan University)
- Yueping Wang (Yunnan University)
- Zhonghao Xie (North Seattle College)
- Gary Seaman (USC)
- Zhuang Kongshao (Yunnan University)
FRIDAY 29 MARCH
Filmmakers participating in screening Q&As:
- Laurent Van Lancker (Director, Kalès)
- María Fernanda Carillo Sanchez (Director, Cantadoras. Musical Memories of Life and Death in Colombia)
- Chi-hang Ma (Director, Ballad on the Shore)
- Han Yuk Han Jack (Producer, Ballad on the Shore)
Conference speakers:
- Nancy Lutkehaus (USC)
- Alice Apley (DER)
- Jennifer Cool (USC)
- Özde Çeliktemel-Thomen (METU)
- Till Jakob Frederik Trojer (SOAS)
- Domitilla Olivieri (Utrecht University)
- Igor Karim (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main)
- Naï Zakharia (University College London)
- Adeel Khan (Cambridge University)
- Hammad Khan
- Timothy P. A. Cooper (University College London)
- Vindhya Buthpitiya (University College London)
- Matteo Gallo (University of Verona)
- Zhongquan Hu (Nanning Normal University)
- Meghanne M Barker (University of Chicago)
- Natalie Nesvaderani (Cornell University)
- Valentina Bonifacio (Ca’ Foscari University)
- Alison Macdonald (UCL)
- Sally Dennehy
- Camilla Morelli (University of Bristol)
- Flavia Kremer (University of Manchester)
- Cathy Greenhalgh (Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London)
- Catalin Brylla (University of West London)
- Pedro Branco (Universidade de Brasília)
- Mattijs van de Port (University of Amsterdam)
- Janine Prins (Leiden University)
- Anja Dreschke (University of Bern)
- Michaela Schäuble (University of Bern)
- Eda Elif Tibet, Maisa Alhafe (University of Bern)
- Barley Norton (Goldsmiths, University of London)
- Ektoras Arkomanis (London Metropolitan University)
- Ricardo Leizaola (Goldsmiths College, University of London)
- Judith Aston (University of the West of England)
- Paolo Favero (University of Antwerp)
SATURDAY 30 MARCH
Filmmakers participating in screening Q&As:
- Laurent Van Lancker (Director, Surya – also delivering a Masterclass, with Chris Wright (Goldsmiths))
- Isaac Marrero-Guillamon (Director, Tindaya Variations)
- Enke Huang (Director, Father’s Prescription)
- Camilla Morelli (Co-Director, Amazonimations)
- Sophie Smith (Co-Director, Amazonimations)
- Kate McLarnon (Co-Director, Even When I Fall)
- Sky Neal (Co-Director, Even When I Fall)
- Pegi Vail (Director, Gringo Trails)
- Eleonora Diamanti (Co-Director, Guardians of the Night)
- Hugh Hartford (Producer, Thank You For the Rain)
- Natalie Cubides-Brady (director, After the Silence)
- Yuri Snigirev and Laura Kuen (Our Freedom)
Conference speakers:
- Mike Poltorak (University of Kent)
- Raminder Kaur (University of Sussex)
- Mariagiulia Grassilli (University of Sussex)
- Karen Boswall (University of Sussex)
- Catherine Donaldson (University of Sussex)
- Lauren Greenwood (University of Sussex)
- Joe Ellefsen
- Charles Brownlow
- Poppy Bennett
- Vitoria de Souza
- Harry Candlish
Plus Producers Simon Bell and Tuppence Stone (BBC) and Neil Crombie (Swan Films) presenting on Rituals on TV.
