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Margaret Mead Film Festival Returns After Pandemic Hiatus, Countering Worrisome Trend In Festival Space
The Margaret Mead Film Festival is returning after being dark since the pandemic, based at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
The four-day event will showcase documentary films from across the globe, as well as animation, panel discussions, and live performances, all from its home base at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The festival kicks off on Thursday, May 9 with Soundtrack ‘63, “a live, music and multimedia retrospective of the Black experience in America.” The following evening will see the New York premiere of Sugarcane, the award-winning documentary that investigates the legacy of residential schools in British Columbia where Indigenous children were separated from their families and systematically deprived of their language and culture, coercing them to assimilate into white Canadian society. Mead 2024 features documentaries from Ecuador ( Ozogoche), Ukraine ( Porcelain War), Italy ( Pure Unknown), the Eastern Himalayas ( Nocturnes), Bhutan ( Agent of Happiness), Democratic Republic of the Congo ( Rising Up at Night), and many other parts of the world.
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