The cinematic talents of Craig and Damon Foster will show students a new style of documentary filmmaking.
"The Great Dance: A Hunter's Story" will be shown at 7 tonight in the Robert S. Kerr Auditorium at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History.
In "The Great Dance," the Foster brothers follow !Nqate of the !Xo San people of the central Kalahari on a hunt to provide for his tribe. The film won three Panda Awards at the 2000 Wildscreen Festival and five International Wildlife Film Festival awards in 2001.
"Our films are first-person narratives," Damon Foster said. "They are non-fiction but designed for a cinema environment."
The Foster brothers are award-winning filmmakers from South Africa who previewed their new film at Wednesday night's screening of "Cosmic Africa" at Meacham Auditorium in Oklahoma Memorial Union.
"Cosmic Africa" is the story of South Saharan African astronomer Thebe Medupe who travels across his continent to find the connection between his science and his people's traditional beliefs about the stars.
African cosmology and astronomy have never been documented, Craig Foster said.
"This is taking documentaries all the way," said Andrew Horton, director of Film and Video Studies.
"Cosmic Africa" is saturated with cinematic shots of pink, fiery African sunsets and time-lapse scenes of the Southern Hemisphere's views of the cosmos.
"I found the film very overpowering," said Betty Harris, anthropology professor and director of the Department of Women's Studies, in an open discussion after the screening.
Horton said these documentaries will be inspirational for film students wanting to work in other fields of the filming industry besides Hollywood.
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