The Fellows speak with artist Riar Rizaldi during the 2024 Flaherty Film Seminar at Thai Film Archive in Salaya, Thailand. Photo by Vinai Dithajohn

The Flaherty Fellowship

The Flaherty Fellowship is a vital part of the Flaherty Film Seminar, providing emerging and mid-career filmmakers, media professionals, and community leaders with an immersive space to deepen their engagement with cinema.

Rooted in a decades-old tradition of rigorous inquiry and open dialogue, the Flaherty Fellowship program offers an enriched Seminar experience through extended opportunities for reflection, connection, exchange, and creative exploration.

Applications for the 2025 Flaherty Fellowship will be open from March 13 to April 6.

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Fellowship Experience

Each Fellowship cohort brings together a diverse group of filmmakers, artists, and thinkers dedicated to collective inquiry and exchange. Fellows are selected through partner organizations and via an open-call application process, ensuring a diversity of perspectives and experiences.

The Fellowship program runs concurrently alongside the Flaherty Seminar while offering additional programming - workshops, screenings, discussions, artist lunches, and artist talks - designed to provide more in-depth engagement with the Seminar program.

Fellows become an integral part of The Flaherty’s rich history and vibrant community; frequently past Fellows have become staff, guest programmers, and/or guest artists.

Since 2021, The Flaherty has also offered an Online Fellowship program, which runs parallel to the in-person Fellowship, broadening access and creating new avenues for connection across geographies.

Thank you to our many perennial Fellowship partners