Meet our 2024 Seminar Fellows
Flaherty is thrilled to announce our 2024 Seminar Fellows! 27 Fellows will be joining us in Thailand this summer and 13 will be part of the Online Fellowship Experience. This year’s Fellowship program is proud to welcome Fellows from a wide range of geographical regions including Australia, Columbia, Cambodia, Thailand, and the U.K. among others!
Each year, Flaherty works with generous Partners to support emerging professionals in documentary film to attend the Seminar and be part of a special Fellowship experience. Fellows are selected either by our sponsoring Partners or through our Open Call which ran from March 1 - March 29 this year.
Please welcome the 2024 Seminar Fellows!
Anti-Archive
Daniel Mattes
Kavich Neang
Savunthara Seng
California College of the Arts
Boya Zhang
California Institute of the Arts
Trisha Bhattacharya
Linda Wei
Utkarsh*
Center For Asian American Media (CAAM) Sophia Rhee
Centre for Research and Education
in Arts and Media (CREAM)
Juanita Onzaga
Rugun Sirait
Colgate University
Yi Cui
Corrientes
Laura Dávila Argoty*
Ángela Jiménez Cano*
Flaherty Curatorial
Zaina Bseiso
Paola Buontempo*
Nicky Ni*
Flaherty Professional Development
Sophia Haid*
Ivey-Camille Manybeads Tso
LEF New England
Maxime Cavajani
Pauline Shongov
Fund for the Development of Cinema (FDC) Colombia
Ana Bravo Pérez
Northwestern University
bree gant
Xiaolu Wang
Palestine Ministry of Culture
Rana Abushkhaidem*
Ibrahim Handal*
Patricia Zimmermann Memorial
Devika Garish
Seminario El Público del Futuro
Edward Aroldo De Ybarra Murguia*
Fernando Vílchez Rodríguez*
Stanford University
Del Holton
Thai Film Archive
Chanasorn Chaikitiporn
Chayanin Tiangpitayagorn
University of California San Diego
Jun!yi Min*
University of Colorado Boulder
Emma Piper-Burket
Nandi Pointer
University of Melbourne
Shannon Owen
Waterman II Fund at the Philadelphia Foundation
Ireashia Bennett
Micah Magee
Nick Moncy*
Elham Sadeghian*
Chun Wang
*Online Fellows
2024 Fellowship Open Call Selection Committee
The Fellowship Open Call applications were reviewed and selected by a committee of former Seminar Fellows. We are incredibly grateful for their time, expertise, and care!
Brit Fryer, 2023 Flaherty Fellow
Wren Gardiner, 2021 Flaherty Fellow
Rami George, 2021 Flaherty Fellow
Chisato Hughes, 2023 Flaherty Fellow
Andrea Hoyos, 2023 Flaherty Fellow
Dylan Huw, 2023 Flaherty Fellow
Abby Lord, 2023 Flaherty Fellow
Moorisha Moodley, 2023 Flaherty Fellow
Nehal Vyas, 2022 Flaherty Fellow
Claudia Zamora-Valencia, 2023 Flaherty Fellow
Expanded 2024 Fellowship Partnerships
With this year’s Seminar taking place at the Thai Film Archive, Flaherty is excited to welcome both existing and new US-based and International Fellowship Partners for the 69th Film Seminar! Through their support, we are welcoming Fellows from all over the world! We want to thank each of them for providing our Fellows the opportunity to be part of this year’s Seminar and supporting Flaherty’s work.
International Fellowship Partners
Anti-Archive (Cambodia)
Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM) (United Kingdom)
Corrientes (Honduras/Colombia)
Ministry of Cultures, Arts, and Knowledge of Colombia (Columbia)
Palestine Ministry of Culture (Palestine)
Seminario El Público del Futuro (Mexico)
Thai Film Archive (Thailand)
University of Melbourne (Australia)
U.S. Fellowship Partners*
California College of the Arts
California Institute of the Arts
Center For Asian American Media (CAAM)
Colgate University
Kate Cashel Fund George Stoney Fellowship
LEF Foundation
Northwestern University
Patricia Zimmermann Memorial Fellowship
Stanford University
University of California San Diego
University of Colorado Boulder
Waterman II Fund at the Philadelphia Foundation
*Some of our 2024 Fellowship Partners are under demands from their students and faculty to divest from all economic ties to the genocide in Gaza. Many of our past and present Fellows are currently participating in encampments on campuses. We support peaceful student and faculty protesters across the globe, and their calls for immediate and permanent ceasefire, and for war profiteers out of education (& the arts).
Our tremendous thanks to all our generous individual donors for making
the inaugural Patricia Zimmermann Memorial Fellowship possible.
2024 Seminar Supporters
The 69th Flaherty Film Seminar is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and Ford Foundation JustFilms.
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Semaine de la Critique, Cannes
Valentina Homem’s (Flaherty Fellow, 2016) short film The Girl and The Pot will premiere at La Semaine de la Critique. In a dystopian world, a girl breaks her ceramic pot which holds a secret within, opening portals to a parallel universe in which the creation of a new world is finally possible.
