Flaherty NYC Season 25
Nov 17–18–19 in NYC
+ additional offerings online
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Opening Night
Friday, November 17, 5 pm
Featuring Miko Reverenza’s
Nowhere Near
ʻIke maka o ka wehe ʻupena.
With this Flaherty NYC program, we invite you to visualize the opening of a net. Like a net, each offering and film in this program acts as a knot. Each knot is tied together by the same through lines and threads, creating a collectively woven container. Nets carry the things that sustain us, with this program, we seek to nourish from within.
Featuring works from artists around the world, this program is a curated response to the 2022 Flaherty Seminar, Continents of Drifting Clouds, and the stirring reverberations that followed. With the intention of nourishment, MAKA: Many Eyed Vessel reckons with the themes of its predecessor while navigating institutional spaces through its offerings of reflection, interconnection, and the future.
— Emily Abi-Kheirs (2022 LEF Fellow), Ha'aheo Auwae-Dekker and Isabel Rojas (2022 Flaherty Curatorial Fellows), and Raven Two Feathers (2022 Professional Development Fellow).
MAKA: Many Eyed Vessel is a multi-part series that will run in NYC November 17–19 at Metrograph and DCTV.
Opening Night will be hosted by Metrograph at 7 Ludlow Street on Friday November 17 at 5pm with a screening of Miko Reverenza’s breathtaking new feature, Nowhere Near (2023). The film will be followed by a discussion and reception.
On Saturday and Sunday November 18-19, FNYC will take on a mini-seminar format at DCTV, 87 Lafayette Street. Offerings will include film programs, multi-media exhibitions, discussions, workshops, and other forms of gathering.
Details on tickets + hybrid and online program coming soon.
Nowhere Near
by Miko Revereza
Friday, November 17,
5 pm
Metrograph
Nowhere Near by Miko Revereza
Philippines | 2023 | 95 min | English, Tagalog
The screening will be followed by a discussion with the filmmaker and programmers and an opening reception in Metrograph’s gorgeous upstairs bar.
“With Nowhere Near — the culmination of several years of shooting, editing, relocation, and reflection — acclaimed experimental filmmaker Miko Revereza forges a personal and profound portrait of immigration, disillusionment, and the elusiveness of home.”
Read more in Reverse Shot
Emily Abi-Kheirs, Ha'aheo Auwae-Dekker, Isabel Rojas, Raven Two Feathers
Programmers
Emily Abi-Kheirs (she/her) is a Boston-based independent documentary producer and programmer. In 2022, she was recognized as a Documentary New Leader by DOC NYC for her work to create a more inclusive and equitable documentary field through intentional community building and creative collaboration. She is currently the Program Director for Salem Film Fest. She is a LEF New England Flaherty Film Seminar fellow.
Haʻaheo Auwae-Dekker (they/them) Haʻaheo Auwae-Dekker is a proud Kanaka ʻŌiwi artist, filmmaker, and storyteller from Waimea on Moku O Keawe, the Big Island of Hawaiʻi. As a storyteller, Haʻaheo is driven to create art that amplifies voices through embracing vulnerability — their work has shown them the power of Indigenous storytelling. They were a Flaherty Film Seminar Curatorial Fellow in 2022.
Isabel Rojas (she/her) is a cultural manager, audiovisual media programmer, and curator from Oaxaca, México with an interest in educational and pedagogical practices. She is dedicated to research, teaching, management, and the production of cultural projects aimed at audience design and development. She is the Artistic Director of the Seminario El Público del Futuro (The Future Audience Seminar) at the International Film Festival of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (FICUNAM). She was a Flaherty Film Seminar Curatorial Fellow in 2022.
Raven Two Feathers (he/him/they/them; Cherokee, Seneca, Cayuga, Comanche) is a Two Spirit, Emmy award-winning creator based in Seattle, WA. Originally from New Mexico, they spent their childhood moving, exploring Indigenous cultures across the continent and the Pacific. They recently premiered at ImagineNATIVE with A Drive to Top Surgery, a 360-video slice-of-life experience.
About Flaherty NYC
Flaherty NYC is the sister series of the Flaherty Film Seminar. It takes place twice a year, in the spring and fall. The series invites curators to assemble programs on a particular theme, featuring innovative, engaging, challenging, and groundbreaking films. The screenings are followed by discussions, often with the filmmakers, about the work and the curatorial topic.
We are especially interested in sharing this program and our process with community leaders, artists, and educators. If you would like to be involved, please contact info@theflaherty.org
A sincere thank you to our curatorial advisors and guides: Almudena Escobar-López and Sky Hopinka, 2022 Professional Development Fellow Angeline Gragasin, and Poh Lin Lee of Narrative Imaginings.
Thank you to the lovely teams at Metrograph and DCTV, and to funders at Humanities New York and NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.
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