Material Culture and Archaeology Film Prize Past Recipients

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2019 

The Book of the Sea (Aleksei Vakhrushev, Russia, 2018) 

Winner 

2017 

  

Ever the Land (Sarah Grohnert, New Zealand, 2015) 

Winner 

Tracing Roots: A Weaver’s Journey (Ellen Frankenstein, USA, 2015) 

Special Mention  

2015 

  

  

  

Tyres (Kyaw Myo Lwin, Myanmar, 2013) 

Winner  

Cast in India (Natasha Raheja, USA, 2014) 

Special Mention 

Ringtone (Jennifer Deger & Paul Wunungmurra, Australia, 2014) 

Special Mention  

The Rebirth of Mahadev: Copper Mining in Nepal (Dipesh Kharel & Frode Storaas, Nepal/ Norway, 2015) 
 

Special Mention 

2013 

  

  

  

Brilliant Soil (José Luis Figueroa Lewis, Sebastián Díaz Aguirre & Ana Paola Rodríguez, Mexico, 2012) 

Winner  

Rockerill: Rekindling the Fire (Yves Mora, Belgium, 2011) 

Special Mention 

Irish Folk Furniture (Tony Donoghue, Ireland, 2012) 

Special Mention  

Ancestral Delicatessen (Gabriel Folgado, Spain, 2012) 

Special Mention  

2011 

  

  

  

Sifinja – The Iron Bride (Valerie Haensch, Germany, 2009) 

Winner  

A Film from My Parish (Tony Donoghue, Ireland, 2008) 

Special Mention  

The Stitches Speak (Nina Sabnani, India, 2010) 

Special Mention  

Weaving Worlds (Bennie Klain, USA, 2008) 

Special Mention  

2009 

  

Umiaq Skin Boat (Jobie Weetaluktuk, Canada, 2008) 

Winner  

Je ne suis pas moi-même (Alba Mora & Anna Santamaria, Spain, 2009) 

Special Mention  

2007 

  

  

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

Winner  

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

Special Mention  

Living Through Things (Anna Waddell, UK, 2005) 

Special Mention  

2005 

  

  

  

  

  

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

Winner  

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

Special Mention  

Masters of the Balafon: The Wood and the Calabash (Hugo Zemp, France, 2003) 

Special Mention  

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

Special Mention  

The Veil Unveiled  (Vanessa Langer, Switzerland, 2004) 

Special Mention  

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

Special Mention  

2003 

  

Cultural Show (Rong Li, China, 2003) 

Winner  

Little Waterfall (Joshka Wessels, UK, 2003) 

Special Mention  

2000 

  

Tell Me My Charcoal Burner (Sophie Audier, France, 1998) 

Winner  

Building Season in Tiébélé (Burkina Faso): A Royal Compound in Change (Annemarie Fiedermutz-Laun & Beate Engelbrecht, Germany, 1998) 

Special Mention  

1998 

  

Patamban: A Village of Potters, Daily Life and Work of a Family, Michoacán, Mexico (Beate Engelbrecht, Germany, 1997) 

Winner  

Incidents of Travel in Chichen Itza (Jeffrey Himpele & Quetzil Castenada, USA, 1997) 

Special Mention  

1996 

  

No prize awarded 

  

Adire – Indigo Textiles among the Yoruba (Thorolf Lipp, Germany, 1996) 

Special Mention 

1994 

Copperworking in Santa Clara del Cobre, Michoacán, Mexico – Artisans Facing Change (Beate Engelbrecht, with special commendation for camerawork: Manfred Krüger, Germany, 1993) 

Winner  

1992 

Photo Wallahs (David MacDougall & Judith MacDougall, Australia, 1991) 

Winner  

1990 

And Woman Wove It in a Basket (Bashra Azzouz, Marlene Farnum & Nettie Kuneki, USA, 1989) 

Winner