Mead film festival brings 14 free documentaries to Henry Gallery Fourteen documentary films from around the world will be shown free at the UW's Henry Art Gallery April 13-16 as the Margaret Mead Traveling Film and Video Festival returns to Seattle. The six programs in the festival will be screened in the Henry's auditorium.
Admission is on a first-come basis.
The festival, the largest showcase for international documentaries in the United States, was founded in 1977 by the American Museum of Natural History in New York to honor anthropologist Margaret Mead in New York. In 1992, the museum began the traveling series, which came to Seattle for the first time last year. This year's subject matter ranges from the spectacular hairstyles of a group of women in New Orleans to how space-age technology provided information to Fulani nomads in Mali about where to move their herds during a severe drought. A Stranger in Everybody's Land, is set, in part, in Spokane. They offer a window into cultures people would be unlikely to experience in reality.