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Mario Santoro-Woith

Woith-Santoro was born in Todi, Umbria and attended the University of Rome “La Sapienza” from 1988 to 1993 where he studied Visual Anthropology.

Salvage ethnography

Salvage ethnography started to be applied methodically in visual anthropology as ethnographic film since the fifties by filmmakers such as Jean Rouch in France, Michel Brault and Pierre Perrault in Canada, or António Campos in Portugal (early sixties), followed by others (seventies).

Sons of Shiva

Sons of Shiva is a 1985 award-winning American documentary film by ethnographic filmmaker Robert Gardner and Askos Ostor, about the worship of the God Shiva, features practices of Hindu worship and devotion, a four-day Gajan ceremony, a Sacred Thread ceremony in Bishnupur and Baul singers of Bengal.


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Astra Film Festival

Personalities of cinema and visual anthropology have been in the AFF juries: Thierry Garrel (France), Cristi Puiu (Romania), Michael Stewart (UK), Mark Soosar (Estonia), Andrei Shemyakin (Russia), Pavel Pawlikowski (UK), Kaori Sakagami (Japan), Renate Roginas (Germany), Dan Alexe (Belgium), Sorin Botoşeneanu (Romania), Antonio Delgado Liz(Spain).

DeeDee Halleck

She received two Rockefeller Media Fellowships for The Gringo in Mañanaland, a compilation film about stereotypes of Latin Americans in U.S. films, which was featured at the Venice Film Festival, the London Film Festival and won a special jury prize at the Trieste Festival for Latin American Film and first prize from the American Anthropological Association's Visual Anthropology Division in 1998.

Karen Boswall

She is a part-time lecturer in Visual Anthropology at the University of Kent.

Tamburica

Produced by Flower Films in association with the Center for Visual Anthropology, University of Southern California.