Tonight screening of People of the Wind

Mike Dodds, one of the original camera crew, will be attending for a Q&A session.People of the Wind

In 1975 precisely fifty years after Merian C. Coopers and Ernest B. Schoedsack’s 1925 Odyssey ‘Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life’ , Anthony Howarth and David Koff decide to pay tribute to their daunting predecessors in another Documentary illustrating the same journey, only the reverse trip.
This time in colour this documentary entitled « People of the Wind » shot in 1975 and released in 1976 allowed the film crew to focus on one particular tribesman leader, whose words, translated into English and read by the actor James Mason, tell the timeless story of the great migration.
 
Wednesday, 29 October, 18:30 pm Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS (http://www.soas.ac.uk/gallery/visit/how-to-find-us.html)
 
If you want to find out more about on the Bakhtiari in general or on the related exhibition “A People’s Migration: The Bakhtiari Kuch’ at SOAS Brunei Gallery’ and the screenings, please visit the SOAS website:
http://www.soas.ac.uk/gallery/bakhtiari-kuch