Student filmmakers who participated in the 2024 annual Anthropology Ethnographic Film Festival. The public film festival showcases the work of the students from the Anthropology Department's Anthropological Film class, where students conduct their original ethnographic research, learn professional digital video editing skills while applying those skills to producing a research-based film, and as a team, organize a public film festival. More than 60 people attended the festival in 2024. The crowd enjoyed short films about the collective identities of K-Pop fans, Magic as well as Dungeons and Dragons players, professional Rave DJs in Los Angeles, Anime fans, Grateful Dead's ongoing fan base, people who practice crystal therapy, and the intergenerational importance of Quinceañera for the collective identity of mothers and daughters, and more.
Mark your calendar for the spring 2025 festival in mid-May!