Material Culture and Archaeology Film Prize Past Recipients

2011		Sifinja – The Iron Bride (Valerie Hänsch, Germany, 2009)
	Special Commendations	A Film from My Parish (Tony Donoghue, Ireland, 2008)
		The Stitches Speak (Nina Sabnani, India, 2010)
		Weaving Worlds (Bennie Klain, USA, 2008)

2009		Umiaq Skin Boat (Jobie Weetaluktuk, Canada, 2008)
		Je ne suis pas moi-même (Alba Mora, Anna Santamaria, Spain, 2009) *
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 the RAI

Royal Anthropological Institute

Material Culture and Archaeology Film Prize Past Recipients

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