2025 SVAFMF, New Orleans, Lousiana | Nov 19 – 23, 2025

Submissions open on FilmFreeway (filmfreeway.com/SVAFMF)

The Society for Visual Anthropology screens the best of ethnographic film at the annual SVA Film & Media Festival. The Festival is held as part of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) Annual Meeting, giving filmmakers and distributors broad access to an audience of thousands of anthropologists, educators, and other attendees. GHOSTS is the 2025 AAA conference theme.

Ethnographic film and media can be defined broadly as works that emerge through ethnographic fieldwork or that use, are informed by, illustrate, or evoke concepts and principles of anthropological theory, methods, or practice.

Please visit us on FilmFreeway to submit a film or interactive media work to the Festival!

2025 SVA Film & Media Festival Directors
Dr. Anna Neumann (Dickinson College)
Dr. Mariam Abazeri (Arizona State University)
Contacl: svafilmfestival@gmail.com