In the colorful cinematic experience for the sense of international culture and education, one should check out the traveling version of the 30th Annual Margaret Mead Film Festival, since it has made it second appearance at New Mexico State University.

The American Museum of Natural History has put up this festival in New York City since 1977, and has been named in the honor of famed anthropologist Margaret Mead and for her contributions to the cinematic documentation of cultures all over the world. The films that are accepted into the festival represent a documentary-style known as "visual anthropology."

It was said by NMSU Union Program Council leader Bruce Vandevender that these are educational and independent films. With Luke-warm results, films from the festival were shown at NMSU last year.

Since the idea of showing the film scheduling in the duration of one weekend, was a failure. Due to which, this year there is an attempt to make the films more available, and will be shown over the course of several weekends

The "traveling" idea of the event refers to the selection of a few of the original festival entries to be sent out in wider distribution to interested organizations. This year, six films will be shown at the university, each representing a different thematic program focusing on a powerful or wide-spread issue.