Half Elf has been selected for the Main Competition at the RAI Film Festival of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, where it will be competing for the festival’s most prestigious honours – The RAI Film Prize and the Basil Wright Prize. Half Elf is one amongst thirteen films that compete in the Main Competition of this years edition, but the whole list and more information about each film can be seen here.
The RAI Film Festival celebrates documentaries from around the globe that engage with themes of culture & society. It has a special focus on anthropological and ethnographic films. First held in 1985, and one of the longest-established in its field, the RAI Film Festival serves as a leading forum for exploring the multiple relationships between documentary film-making, anthropology, visual culture, and the advocacy of cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue through film.
The Festival assigns four prizes and four awards: RAI Film Prize; RAI Short Film Prize; Basil Wright Prize; Wiley Blackwell Student Prize; and Audience Prize. The Lifetime Achievement Award, President’s Award, Richard Werbner Award for Visual Ethnography and the Ethnomusicology Film Award.
This years festival will be held online during March 19th – 28th. You can read more about the selection of Half Elf into the festival, here at The Icelandic Film Centre and at the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service, RÚV.