Material Culture and Archaeology Film Prize

Past Recipients

2007: A Life With Slate (Dipesh Kharel, Nepal/Norway, 2006)

Special Commendations:

The Devil’s Mills (János Tari, Hungary, 2006)

Living Through Things (Anna Waddell, UK, 2005)

2005: Singing Pictures - Women Painters of Naya (Lina Fruzzetti, Ákos Östör, Aditi Nath Sarkar, USA, 2005)

Special Commendations:

Qudad: Re-inventing a Tradition (Caterina Borelli, Yemen/USA, 2004)

Masters of the Balafon: The Wood and the Calabash (Les Maîtres du balafon: le bois et la calebasse) (Hugo Zemp, France, 2003)

In Search of Hamat'sa: A Tale of Headhunting (Aaron Glass, USA, 2004)

The Veil Unveiled (Regards sur le voile) (Vanessa Langer, Switzerland, 2004)

The Gates of Damascus (Mark Boulus, UK, 2005)

2003: Cultural Show (Rong Li, China, 2003)

Special Commendation: Little Waterfall (Joshka Wessels, UK, 2003)

2000: Tell me my Charcoal Burner (Sophie Audier, France, 1998)

Special Commendation: Building Season in Tiébele (Burkina Faso): A Royal Compound in Change (Annemarie Fiedermutz-Laun and Beate Engelbrecht, Germany, 1998)

1998: Patamban: A Village of Potters, Daily Life and Work of a Family, Michoacán, Mexico (Beate Englebrecht, Germany, 1997) 
Special Commendation: Incidents of Travel in Chichen Itza (Jeffrey Himpele and Quetzil Castenada, USA, 1997)

1996: no prize awarded

Special Commendation: Adire - Indigo Textiles among the Yoruba (Thorolf Lipp, Germany, 1996)

1994: Copper-working in Santa Clara del Cobre, Michoacán,
Mexico (Beate Engelbrecht, with special commendation for camerawork: Manfred Krüger, Germany, 1993) *

1992: Photo Wallahs (David MacDougall and Judith MacDougall, Australia, 1991) *

1990: And Woman Wove it in a Basket (Bashra Azzouz, Marlene Farnum, Nettie Kuneki, USA, 1989)

* distributed by RAI; please see Video Sales List