33rd Annual Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival at the American Museum of Natural History Nov 12-15. http://www.amnh.org/programs/mead/2009/ 33 films, 26 filmmakers in person, 25 premieres. The Festival holds many gems this year — Travel the world all from the comfort of the Museum— where you can get to know the people and places from Mauritania to Mumbai, from Chongqing, China, to St. Petersburg, Russia, and from the Gulf Coast of southern Florida to right next door in Brooklyn. We’ll follow the length of a race-track that starts in Paris and ends in Dakar Senegal, pausing to meet with the communities along the way. We’ll go north to the Seward Peninsula where a Native Alaskan community comes together to mourn the impending loss of their land to climate change. A schoolyard in Brooklyn becomes a battlefield in the War on Terror. And two historic neighborhoods facing the ugly side of urban renewal, one in Beijing, the other St. Petersburg. http://www.amnh.org/programs/mead/2009/ or CALL (212) 769-5200. ---- Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex podcast: http://www.screenlex.org