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Selection commitee and jury

Da sinistra: Paolo Piquereddu, David MacDougall, Marc H. Piault.
The films in competitions have been selected by a Committee composed of:

David MacDougall is ARC Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, Australian National University in Canberra. He is an ethnographic filmmaker and writer on film and the social sciences. He has made films in East Africa, Australia, Europe and India, many in collaboration with Judith MacDougall. His present research is on schools and other institutions for children in India. He is the author of numerous articles on cinema, and two books, Transcultural Cinema (1998) and The Corporeal Image: Film, Ethnography, and the Senses (2006).

Marc-Henri Piault anthropologist and film maker, Honorary Director of Research at the CNRS, Président of the Comité du Film Ethnographique (CFE) – Paris, Visiting-professor at the Getulio Vargas Foundation (Rio de Janeiro).
Researches on Western Africa (migrations; pre-colonial political organization ; possession cults), France (regional identity and cultural representation) and Brazil (beliefs formation; involvments and identities; violences, religions and social implication).
Teaching at the universities of Paris X-Nanterre, Aix, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales(EHESS), Paris I-Sorbonne, State Univ. of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) (Political Anthropology; AudioVisual Anthropology), Getulio Vargas Foundation - Rio de Janeiro (AudioVisual Anthropology).
Films making (Niger; Nigeria; France; Brazil)
Several publications (french, english, portuguese, spanish)
Theoretical essays on Audiovisual Anthropology (see among others : Anthropologie et Cinéma, Paris, Nathan ed., 2000).

Paolo Piquereddu Director General of the Istituto Superiore Etnografico della Sardegna (ISRE). He manages the Museo Etnografico della Sardegna and the Museo della Casa Natale di Grazia Deledda and is responsible for the planning and management of the cultural projects of the regional body.
He is a lecturer in Museology and Museography( Sassari (University). He conducted seminars in several universities and cultural institution in Italy and abroad and has carried out research into Sardinian ethnography, producing various publications.
Since 1990 he manages the international ethnographic film festival and the ISRE’s audiovisual output. In this field he has directed or produced a large number of films on Sardinian popular culture. In 2006 the SIMBDEA - Società Italiana per la Museografia e i beni demo etno antropologici- awarded him the “Prize Museo Frontiera” for his activity in visual anthropology and museums.