| IN-PERSON ONLY

The George Stoney Memorial Fellowship is awarded to an emerging or mid-career filmmakers, programmers, writers, scholars, archivists, or media professionals from the US or abroad whose work aligns with the activism and community engagement of the late George Stoney. An American documentary filmmaker, educator, and the "father of public-access television”, Stoney directed the revolutionary Challenge for Change initiative. His collaborative works screened at the first Flaherty Seminar in 1954, and have shown at the Seminar every decade since.

Eligibility Requirements:

• Must be an emerging or mid-career filmmaker, programmer, writer, scholar, archivist, or media professional.

• Open to applicants from the US and abroad.

• Must demonstrate excellence in their craft and practice.

One George Stoney Memorial Fellow will be selected. Travel is not included.

IN-PERSON ONLY

The Patricia Zimmermann Memorial Fellowship will be offered to a programmer, scholar, archivist, community organizer, new media theorist, and/or historian whose work is imbued with the curiosity, generosity, and fearlessness that Patty brought to all she did. As a connector and builder, Patty was an indomitable force. She inspired and nurtured the intellectual and generative processes of many scholars and artists while remaining curious and open to reinvention. Her legacy as an author, presenter, and visionary thought leader in the film world cannot be underestimated.

In addition to full registration to the 2025 Seminar and Fellowship programs, two of Patty Zimmermann’s books about The Flaherty (co-authored with Scott MacDonald) are included with the Fellowship package. Historians and scholars will be offered a stipend of $1000 to engage, post-Seminar, with an aspect of The Flaherty’s archive they find most aligned with their practice, alongside mentorship with a Seminar elder whose practice is relevant to the Fellows’ research interests.

Eligibility Requirements:

• Must be an emerging or mid-career programmer, scholar, archivist, community organizer, new media theorist, and/or historian.

• Open to applicants from the US and abroad.

• Must demonstrate curiosity, interdisciplinarity, and fearlessness in their practice.

One Patricia Zimmermann Memorial Fellow will be selected. Travel is not included.

IN-PERSON ONLY

The LEF New England Fellowship, supported by LEF New England of the LEF Foundation, provides funding for two New England-based documentary filmmakers to attend the Seminar in person.

Eligibility Requirements:

• Must be living and working in one of the six New England states:

• Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, or Rhode Island.

• Must not have received a Flaherty Fellowship in the past.

• Must not be enrolled in an undergraduate or master’s degree program at the time of application.

Three LEF New England Fellows will be selected. Travel is not included.

IN-PERSON ONLY

Supported by the Philadelphia Foundation, this Fellowship enables Philadelphia-based film professionals and students to attend the in-person Seminar.

Eligibility Requirements:

• Must reside in Philadelphia.

• Must not have received a Philadelphia Fellowship in the past five years.

• Preference will be given to first-time Fellows.

Five Waterman II Fund Philadelphia Fellows will be selected. Travel is not included.

Shine Global Fellowship | IN-PERSON ONLY

The Shine Global Fellowship, supported by Shine Global, provides funding for one filmmaker working in fiction and/or nonfiction form to attend the 70th Flaherty Fellowship. The Shine Global Fellowship applicants must be working on or have worked on a film centering on children's voices and aiming to improve children's lives. 

Eligibility Requirements:

• Must be working on or have just finished a film that is centering children's voices and has the goal of improving children's lives

• Must not be enrolled in an undergraduate or master’s degree program at the time of application.

One Shine Global Fellow will be selected. 

ONLINE

The Flaherty Professional Development Online Fellowship is open to emerging or mid-career filmmakers, programmers, writers, scholars, archivists, and media professionals.

Eligibility Requirements:

• Must be an emerging or mid-career filmmaker, programmer, writer, scholar, archivist, or media professional.

One or two Flaherty Professional Development Fellows will be selected.

ONLINE

The Flaherty Curatorial Fellowship is designed for emerging or early-career curators, creating a pathway for more diverse voices in film and media curation.

Eligibility Requirements:

• Must be an emerging or early-career curator.

• Must demonstrate a commitment to advancing diverse perspectives in film/media curation.

One online Curatorial Fellow will also be selected.

ONLINE

The Corrientes Fellowship supports emerging to mid-career filmmakers, artists, and film programmers from or based in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Eligibility Requirements:

• Must be an emerging or mid-career filmmaker, artist, or film programmer.

• Must be from or based in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Two Corrientes Fellows will be selected.

ONLINE

The Nazaara Media Lab is a political and visual anthropology lab at Cornell University focusing on aesthetics, spectacle, ethnographic film, documentary, borders, migration, state power, and beyond. “Nazaara” means sight, scene, show, or spectacle. It is related to “nazar”, a Perso-Arabic word used in South Asia to refer to gaze and the evil eye, and “nazar aana”, to be visible or to appear.

The Nazaara Media Lab Fellowship supports an early-career, South Asia-based applicant with active involvement in research, filmmaking, or related organizational project-based work in the above thematic areas.

Eligibility Requirements:

• Must be an early career researcher, filmmaker, artist, film programmer, or critic.

• Must be based in South Asia.

• Researchers and practitioners familiar with visual anthropology, focusing on aesthetics, spectacle, ethnographic film, documentary, borders, migration, and state power are encouraged to apply.

One Nazaara Media Lab Fellow will be selected. The Selected Nazaara Media Lab Fellow is invited to offer a virtual session with the lab to share their work within 6 months of the Fellowship.

Purin Pictures Fellowship | ONLINE ONLY

Purin Pictures is a film fund that supports independent cinema in Southeast Asia.  Since 2017 under the Purin Foundation, Purin Pictures has looked for artists and organizations doing unique and essential work in a region lacking adequate governmental support.  Managed by Anocha Suwichakornpong and Aditya Assarat, Purin Pictures funding programs cover film production, film post-production, and film-related activities.

The Purin Pictures Flaherty Fellowship is open to emerging or mid-career filmmakers, programmers, writers, scholars, archivists, and media professionals from and based in Southeast Asia.

Eligibility Requirements:

• Open to emerging or mid-career filmmakers, programmers, writers, scholars, archivists, and media professionals

• Must be from, living, and working in Southeast Asia.

• Must not have received a Flaherty Fellowship in the past.

• Must not be enrolled in an undergraduate degree program at the time of application.

Two Purin Pictures Fellows will be selected.