70th Flaherty Film Seminar
Thursday, June 26–Sunday, June 29, 2025
New York City, with Global Pods
and an Online Experience
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Thursday, June 26 – Sunday, June 29, 2025
New York City, with Global Pods and an Online Experience
This year’s Seminar will gather participants in New York City, alongside a series of Global Pods and an Online Experience. The parallel Flaherty Fellowship program will convene online and at Firehouse: DCTV’s Cinema for Documentary Film from Wednesday June 25 until Sunday, June 29, 2025.
For the past seven decades, the Seminar has been a space to explore the transformative power of cinema, foster cultural exchange, and expand the boundaries of what we know. As our founder Frances Flaherty reminds us, “It’s not a question of what I liked best. It’s what I can’t forget.”
This seminar will have no singular programmer, and is instead curated collaboratively with Flaherty Seminar elders and past programmers. As our small organization enters this new decade, we look forward to gathering, to reflect and recenter, and to continue to think with cinema and each other.
We are eager to share the 70th seminar experience with you, wherever you may be. Whether in person in NYC or via Pods active around the globe, we invite you to join us!
Stay Tuned–Registration and Fellowship Applications open in March.
“ “Commercial culture silences debate; The Flaherty liberates it and invigorates ideas. And that is a difficult, messy, uncomfortable, and disquieting experience that should never be sanitized. Each participant should find their way out of philosophical and artistic knots their own way – but always in consort with other like-minded seminarians. If the media art world thrives on romantic individualism, The Flaherty is just the opposite; it is a sort of collective intellectual and artistic sauna that cleanses the body and the soul.” ”
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MacDowell Fellowship: Fall 2025–Winter 2026
Peterborough, New Hampshire
Apply by February 10, 2025
Approximately 300 artists in seven disciplines are awarded Fellowships each year and the sole criterion for acceptance is artistic excellence. There are no residency fees, and need-based stipends and travel reimbursement grants are available to open the residency to the broadest possible community of artists.
MacDowell encourages applications from artists of all backgrounds and all countries in the following disciplines: architecture, film/video arts, interdisciplinary arts, literature, music composition, theatre, and visual arts.
Artists interested in applying for a MacDowell Fellowship should complete an online application. Admissions staff can be reached at 603-924-3886.