AMNH Presents: 41st Annual Margaret Mead Film Festival

The preeminent showcase for contemporary cultural storytelling, the 41st Annual Margaret Mead Film Festival screens a selection of titles chosen from more than 700 submissions. The festival will feature international documentaries, multimedia performances, installations, receptions throughout the Museum, intimate conversations with filmmakers and film subjects, and the presentation of the annual Margaret Mead Filmmaker Award.

The Margaret Mead Film Festival is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Support for the Margaret Mead Film Festival is provided, in part, by the May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Inc.; the Sidney, Milton and Leoma Simon Foundation; the family of Frederick H. Leonhardt; and The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation.

Activate connection at the 2017 Margaret Mead Film Festival. More than 40 ground-breaking, international, nonfiction films and media present fresh cross-cultural perspectives. Honoring legendary anthropologist Margaret Mead, the festival reinforces our search for deeper understanding of the limitless diversity and complex texture that is human experience. Come for the long weekend of film screenings, conversations, parties, an installation by stop-motion animation artist Amanda Strong, and the new Mead Mixed Media Lounge where filmmakers, scholars, and thousands of audiences exchange new ideas. Come see what the Mead will activate for you.

The 2017 Margaret Mead Film Festival will be held October 19–22.

TICKET PRICES

$15 Opening night film ($13 for Members, seniors, and students)
$45 Opening Night film PLUS reception
$20 Special Presentation: Lunar Tribute ($18 for Members)
$12 All other screenings ($10 for Members, seniors, and students)