Shireen Hamza, 2019 Harvard Flaherty Fellow, shared her reflections on the Seminar on the Critical Media Practice (CMP) blog. Shireen is a PhD student in Harvard’s History of Science department. Her work focuses on the history of science and medicine in the medieval Islamicate world (Islamicate here refers to the multi-confessional world within the borders of Islamic polities).

During the last days of the Seminar, Nicolás Carrasco talked with the filmmakers for Desistfilm about their first years of collaboration, their relationship with the Japanese New Wave, their working methods and these first three films.

This two-day film series collaboration with The High Line celebrates the trailblazing Simone Leigh’s Brick House . The two nights feature short works by primarily women filmmakers from around the world. With Leigh’s focus on Black female beauty and empowerment in mind, curators Jon-Sesrie Goff and Claire Diao selected films and videos that represent the range and complexity of Black female-identified creativity.

#ChangingTheStory This August, Firelight Media partners with Vision Maker Media, The Flaherty and NET Nebraska public television to host our Groundwork Lab as part of the Vision Maker Media Producer Training in Lincoln, Nebraska with major funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

The Flaherty would like to invite those interested in programming the 2021 seminar to submit a letter of intent. The deadline is September 1, 2019. The Board of Trustees will ask for a second round of application materials by mid-September, and make a final selection in late October. We are also accepting nominations.

Programmers can be individuals or those working in small programming teams. All programmers need to have attended the Seminar prior to submitting an application.

2019 Fall programmers Courtney Stephens & Mathilde Walker-Billaud. Courtney Stephens is a filmmaker and programmer based in Los Angeles. Mathilde Walker-Billaud is a curator and cultural producer based in New York City.