October 2023: FNYC Season 25

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.

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“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.”

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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. 

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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.


Community News

Many Lumens Returns

BlackStar Projects’ signature podcast Many Lumens returns this fall with a star-studded crew of changemakers. Host Maori Karmael Holmes (2014 Flaherty Fellow and 2016 FNYC Co-Programmer) kicks things off on October 11 with a conversation with Lisa Cortés and Bethann Hardison. The duo is celebrating the theatrical release of Invisible Beauty, a feature documentary about Hardison’s pioneering journey as a Black model, modeling agent, and activist. Stay tuned for upcoming episodes, dropping every Wednesday, with writer Fariha Róisín, actress Danielle Deadwyler, musician Jason Moran, and chefs Omar Tate and Cybille St. Aude-Tate.

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OFFERINGS


Emily Abi-Kheirs, Ha'aheo Auwae-Dekker, Isabel Rojas, Raven Two Feathers

Announcing Flaherty NYC Season 25!
November 17–19, 2023 in NYC and Online


The Flaherty is delighted to announce our upcoming Season of Flaherty NYC.
The series is programmed by Emily Abi-Kheirs (2022 LEF Fellow), Ha'aheo Auwae-Dekker (2022 Curatorial Fellow), Isabel Rojas (2022 Curatorial Fellow), and Raven Two Feathers (2022 Professional Development Fellow).

This year, the series takes the form of an offering, in a collectively-curated response to the 2022 Flaherty Film Seminar Continents of Drifting Clouds programmed by Almudena Escobar-López and Sky Hopinka.

The 25th Season of Flaherty NYC will open on Friday November 17th and run in a mini-seminar format over the weekend of November 18-19 in person in New York City, alongside hybrid and online programs. Artists and program details will be announced in our October Newsletter.

We are especially interested in sharing this program and our process with community leaders, artists, and educators. If you and your collaborators/students would like to take part via an institutional partnership or otherwise, please contact samara@theflaherty.org for more details.

A sincere thank you to our curatorial advisors and guides: Almudena Escobar-López and Sky Hopinka, 2022 Professional Development Fellow Angeline Gragasin, Poh Lin Lee of Narrative Imaginings, and our program partners at Humanities New York and the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.

About the 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. Previously, she was the Manager of Filmmaker Services at Women Make Movies where she supported women and female-identifying filmmakers. She began her career at WORLD Channel. She is currently the Program Director for Salem Film Fest. She is a LEF New England Flaherty Film Seminar fellow and an IDA Getting Real Fellow. She is currently producing Untitled Altered States Film, directed by Julie Mallozzi. She graduated from Emerson College with a B.A. in Documentary Production.

Haʻaheo Auwae-Dekker (they/them) is a proud Kanaka Maoli 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. As a young Hawaiian who has lived in diaspora, their art has been a means of reconnecting while creating art that reflects an increasingly universal experience. Their work has shown them the power of Indigenous storytelling. They have participated in film festivals including the Hawaiʻi International Film Festival, Wairoa Māori Film Festival, and the National Film Festival for Talented Youth (NFFTY). They are a Flaherty Film Seminar Curatorial Fellow and an invited artist to the UnionDocs workshop Entangled Bonds: Working with Family in Documentary Film. In 2023, they were a participating artist in MoMA’s Doc Fortnight. Currently, they work with Nia Tero as an Associate Producer for their Storytelling Team. They graduated from Seattle University with a BA in Film Studies.

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 serves as 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 is co-founder and programmer at OaxacaCine (2011-2023). She holds a degree in Cultural Management and Sustainable Development from the Autonomous University of Benito Juárez in Oaxaca (UABJO).  She is a Berlinale Talent (Audience Design 2023) and a Flaherty Film Seminar Curatorial Fellow (2022). She creates spaces for dialogue and the collective construction of knowledge in her practice, building experimental projects that blend coexistence, study, and research.   

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 Pacific. They returned to New Mexico to attend Santa Fe University of Art & Design, graduating magna cum laude with a BFA in Film Production. They recently premiered at ImagineNATIVE with A Drive to Top Surgery, a 360 video slice-of-life experience. They grow their practice through the people they meet, and the stories that guide them.


Patty Zimmermann at the 1994 Flaherty Film Seminar she co-programmed with Erik Barnouw and L. Somi Roy; contact sheet

Onward, Patty Zimmermann!

With the news of Patty Zimmermann’s sudden passing last month, our community has been awash in tides of grief, and grateful recollection and reconnection. Our small team at The Flaherty has been deeply humbled and moved by the outpouring of love for her. Patty was a connecting force across her many practices, and certainly within The Flaherty realm—as a Board Member, Seminar Programmer, co-author of The Flaherty: Decades in the Cause of Independent Cinema (2017) and Flash Flaherty: Tales from a Film Seminar (2021), and a vigorous advocate and mentor.

Before I was announced as the Executive Director of the Flaherty, I was a quiet surreptitious attendee of the Flash Flaherty launches — what a gift to be offered such a heartfelt and complex glimpse into the people who have helped shape this organization over the decades. In our first zoom call together a few weeks later, Patty regaled me with advice and encouragement. I could sense her knack for people—she vigorously, fearlessly, and intuitively equipped so many of us with the tools we needed to succeed in our various radical, wild, creative visions.

Patty—You have lit up so many of our lives. Thank you for your brilliance and unwavering curiosity.

Thank you to all who have been part of the surge of reconnections and memories over the past weeks, and especially to Carlos Gutiérrez, Josetxo Cerdan Los Arcos, Helen De Michiel, John Knecht, Laura U. Marks, Linda Lilienfeld, Lynne Sachs, Richard Herskowitz, Steven Montgomery, and Su Friedrich, whose heartfelt and gorgeous tributes to Patty you can read in the section linked below.

Samara Chadwick
Executive Director

 

Patty was a beacon and a shout.
A provocateur, an intellectual, an activist. 
A sparkler. A synthesizer. An enactivist.
Unbounded energy and piercing insight.
A brilliant scholar, a force for goodness, an unforgettable person.


Participate in a Groundbreaking New Study

We invite you to take part in a groundbreaking new study to better understand the relationships between documentary makers and participants.

Over the past months, The Flaherty has been honored to work alongside partner organizations Brown Girls Doc Mafia, Documentary Accountability Working Group, Documentary Producers Alliance, FWD-Doc, Nia Tero, and Youth FX: NeXt Doc, in an ITVS-lead study to develop a deeper understanding of how documentary filmmakers work with the individuals and communities whose stories they share on screen.

The online survey invites filmmaker practitioners and documentary participants to share their experiences. Thanks to your critical insights, we can better identify how the documentary ecosystem can support the work of filmmakers and film participants. Help us ensure that this unprecedented documentary research takes place.

The survey is open until September 29.

 

What to know before participating:

You must live or work in the United States. Films can be set internationally.
Films can be any length. 
The survey is available in English only. 
The survey takes an approximately 15 minutes to complete.
The survey is compatible with most third-party screen readers. 
You can complete the survey via telephone or an ASL-supported video call.


Patricio Guzmán, Dreaming of Utopia: 50 Years of Revolutionary Hope and Memory | September 7—15, 2023

Anthology Film Archives, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), and the IFC Center
Presented by Icarus Films and Cinema Tropical

Master documentarian Patricio Guzmán (b. 1941) has documented the tumultuous political history of his native Chile for over fifty years. Through the democratically elected socialist government of President Salvador Allende in the early 70s, the US-backed coup led by General Augusto Pinochet, and the more recent social uprising that opened the door for the rewriting of a new constitution, Guzmán has served as a witness and chronicler of the history of this South American nation.

His commitment to filming the lived history of his country for more than 50 years is unprecedented in world cinema. September 11, 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the 1973 coup led by General Pinochet and his army, which drastically changed the history of Chile and Latin America.

To mark the occasion, Icarus Films and Cinema Tropical present a special film series in New York City, celebrating the long career of the influential and lauded Chilean director. Included new restorations of his 1972 debut feature The First Year and his three-part epic The Battle of Chile.

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Job Opportunity: Assistant Professor of Media and Film Studies, Skidmore College

The Film and Media Program at Skidmore College is hiring an Assistant Professor of Media and Film Studies. Applications are currently being accepted for the position, with an expected start date in September 2024. More information is available on the Skidmore Human Resources website.

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Seminars 68 | 69 | 70

The staff and board of The Flaherty are filled with gratitude and inspiration after the 68th Flaherty Film Seminar (June 17–23, 2023 at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY).

We look forward to Seminars 69 and 70 with enthusiasm, and are delighted to announce the programmers for our next TWO editions!

As we move into a new season, we part with a valued long-time team member, Sarie Horowitz, who has been at the Flaherty since 2011.

warm | tinged with eroticism | challenging | intensive | thrilling | joyful | transformative | a thoughtful week of conversations | facilitated with a lot of care | edifying | humbling | energizing | engaging | fancy | porous | surprising | Queer People | provocative | interesting | revitalizing | generous | inspiring | loving | invigorating discussion | community | tender | deeply reflective | emotional | exciting | arousing | enlivening | productive | difficult | rigorous | expansive | enriching | exhausting | honestly…so much fun!


Photography by Bleue Liverpool

A Thrilling 68th Flaherty Film Seminar

The 68th Annual Flaherty Film Seminar, Queer World-Mending, concluded Monday July 31st, with the closing of our online asynchronous platform.

We were honored to welcome artists Sharlene Bamboat & Alexis Kyle Mitchell, Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby, Theo Jean Cuthand, Shu Lea Cheang, John Greyson, Madsen Minax, James Richards, Roee Rosen, Amina Ross, Wu Tsang in our midst, as well as a host of elders whose presences were felt at every turn: Chantal Akerman, Barbara Hammer, Pat Hearn and Shelley Lake, George Kuchar, Curt McDowell, Gunvor Nelson, Edward Owens, Marlon Riggs, Beryl Sokoloff, Leslie Thornton and Ron Vawter, and Paul Wong.

Over five hundred people from around the world took part in this year’s programming – as Fellows, Seminar Participants, Pod Participants, or Online Attendees. We brought together creators, critics, and scholars in Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, France, Germany, Greece, Honduras, India, Ireland, Israel, México, Norway, Paraguay, Perú, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Slovenia, Spain, South Korea, Sweden, the Netherlands, Turkey, United Kingdom, and the United States.

Thank you to all who joined and supported this year’s seminar, to every member of the Flaherty Team, and the gracious folks at Skidmore who welcomed us so warmly on their verdant campus.

Read Mend the World: The 2023 Flaherty Seminar by Caden Mark Gardner, in the Film Comment Letter, July 31, 2023.


In this Blue Moon month,
The Flaherty is delighted to announce the programmers for the next two Seminars

May Adadol Ingawanij; Julian Ross photographed by Merel Hegenbart; Jemma Desai photographed by Christa Holka

May Adadol Ingawanij and Julian Ross will program
the 69th Flaherty Film Seminar To Commune in 2024

How does cinema enable us to commune? We’re interested in the potential of groups gathering around a screen over a period of time. We approach documentary filmmaking as that which brings together bodies, minds and spirits across different spaces, worlds and temporalities. […]

Our curatorial approach seeks to explore the tensions and the sparks of efforts to commune. Not to gather to recognize an identity or a common concern, but to make relations on grounds of radical differentiation.

— May Adadol Ingawanij & Julian Ross, August 2023

TO COMMUNE: READ MORE

May Adadol Ingawanij | เม อาดาดล อิงคะวณิช is a writer, curator, and teacher. She works on Southeast Asian contemporary art; de-westernized and de-centred histories and genealogies of cinematic arts; avant-garde legacies in Southeast Asia; forms of future-making in contemporary Global South artistic and curatorial practices; aesthetics and circulation of artists’ moving image, art and independent films belonging to or connected with Southeast Asia. She is Professor of Cinematic Arts at the University of Westminster where she co-directs the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media. May publishes regularly English and Thai for a wide range of publications. Her recent and ongoing curatorial projects include Legacies, and Animistic Apparatus.

Julian Ross is a researcher, curator and writer based in Amsterdam. He is an Assistant Professor at Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, a film program advisor for IDFA, and co-organizer of Doc Fortnight at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, with Sophie Cavoulacos. He was a programmer at International Film Festival Rotterdam (2015-22), Locarno Film Festival (2019-20) and guest programmer at Singapore International Film Festival (2021). His curatorial work has been presented at Tate Modern, Art Institute of Chicago, e-flux Video & Film, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Eye Filmmuseum, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Harvard Film Archive and British Film Institute. He is co-director of the interdisciplinary research centre ReCNTR and editorial board member of Collaborative Cataloging Japan. He is co-curator of Animistic Apparatus with May Adadol Ingawanij, with whom he will co-programme the 69th Flaherty Seminar.


Jemma Desai Joins the Board of Directors as Programmer-in-Residence of the 70th Flaherty Film Seminar Yearning in 2025

What might happen if we used the phenomenology of yearning to appraise our cultural production infrastructure? Not yearning to belong to what we have, but yearning to be longing: to embody a desire for something else? How might both understanding more clearly our own desires as well as attending closely to the ways that reformism, managerial moderation and ‘professional practices’ contain the work that is possible lead us to more congruent and committed ways of working? —Jemma Desai, August 2023

YEARNING: READ MORE

In an effort to lift the veil between the leadership of The Flaherty, our history, and our programs, The Flaherty is honoured to work with curator, researcher, and writer Jemma Desai over the next two years. Her engagement with our board, staff, and the archives will culminate in her curation of the 70th seminar, tying our long history together with possible visions for the future.

Jemma Desai is a writer, educator and somatic facilitator based in London. Her practice engages film and other art forms through research, writing, performance, as well as informally organized settings for deep study. She has previously worked with the BFI and British Council, and is the creator of "This work isn't for Us” a multidisciplinary and auto-ethnographic research project on institutional racism in the UK arts sector. She was co-chair of LUX, a UK based international arts agency that supports and promotes artists’ moving image between 2017-22, the Head of Programming at Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival in 2021 is and is on the programming committee at Blackstar Film Festival in Philadelphia.  She is a practice based PhD candidate at Central School of Speech and Drama thinking through the liberatory possibilities of abolitionist praxis to cultural production with a thesis entitled "what do we want from each other after we have told our stories?" She regularly writes, teaches and speaks on her research interests in a variety of academic and non-academic contexts.


Photographed by Scott Rudd at a 60th Flaherty Film Seminar screening in 2014

A heartfelt thank you Sarie Horowitz

The Flaherty Board of Directors and team send flowers and gratitude to Sarie Horowitz as we part ways. We wish her great success in her future endeavours. Sarie joined The Flaherty as seasonal seminar staff in 2011, working closely with Executive Director Mary Kerr. In her thirteen years working at our organization, she helped implement a dozen seminars and two dozen FNYC seasons, rising to the role of Program Director in 2019.

Sarie has been a gift to the Flaherty community. She has nurtured generations of dedicated staff, worked closely with programmers and artists, and is beloved for her perennial kindness, care, and warmth.


Call for Entries: MacDowell Residency
March 1 – August 31, 2024, Peterborough, NH
Apply by September 10

Apply for a MacDowell Fellowship! Filmmakers of all genres, in addition to artists across six additional disciplines, are eligible for MacDowell residency Fellowships. There are no residency fees, and need-based stipends and travel reimbursement grants are available to all artists awarded Fellowships. Deadline: September 10.

APPLY



Registration for the 68th Flaherty Seminar opens March 1!

Steve Reinke, Untitled (detail), Needlepoint, 2017 | Floss on plastic backing, 18.1 x 9.3 cm | Courtesy the artist and gallery Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin


Queer World-Mending
Programmed by Jon Davies & Steve Reinke
June 17–23 2023
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY

“Better a mended sock than a torn one – not so with subjectivity.” –Hegel

The world – wounded, wasting, wheezing – needs mending. But our feral subjectivities, our libidos, need to remain torn, agape, asunder. So how can we mend the wounded world if we are open wounds ourselves? Sexuality is a force that cuts through histories and identities, and offers an embodied approach to thinking. Perhaps queer desire, through its very non-productive fucked-upness can mend the world better than more stable, normative approaches.

It is hard to have any hope these days, now that so many of the flaming creatures are literally flaming creatures. As the world burns, one can barely determine which fires to put out, which to ignore, and which to fuel and fan. This program will join the living and the dead because the only way into the future is through the ashes of the past. Queer World-Mending will be a playground of desire, a laboratory for developing and performing new subjectivities. And if we can’t build a new house, we can at least change the wallpaper. Long live the new flesh!

Jon Davies, Steve Reinke

Join us!

The annual Flaherty Seminar is among the most significant non-fiction film events in the world. Filmmakers, scholars, students, curators, critics, archivists, and cinephiles gather for an immersive, week-long program of screenings, discussions, and multimedia works centered on a common theme. 

Through thoughtful co-creation and conversation, we explore the impact of the moving image. The Flaherty Seminar strives to elevate the human experience, expand consciousness, and encourage critical thought about the world. 

Join us! Registration will open March 1st and remain open until full. The registration link be available on our homepage theflaherty.org
You will:

  • Be asked to provide full or partial fee payment upon registration

  • Select rooms with AC or non-AC 

  • Be able to sign-up to volunteer during the seminar

The all-inclusive in-person Seminar registration fee includes lodging, meals, screenings and discussions, receptions, and additional special events. The fee does not include travel to and from Skidmore College. Arrive by 5 pm Saturday, depart at noon Friday.


Don’t delay – Registration is limited. In past years, in-person registration moved to the waitlist within a few weeks.

Rates

In-person: $1750, suggested fee | $1,500–$2,500, sliding scale

Virtual: $250, suggested fee | $250–$400, sliding scale

  • We are offering sliding scale registration on an honor system with the aim of creating an accessible and equitable experience. Please contribute a rate that reflects your financial capacity and relative privilege. 

  • The suggested fees would ensure that we can pay our staff equitable rates and cover rental and meal costs.

  • We especially encourage reduced rates for participants who are Indigenous to the land they call home, or have been historically dispossessed from their land, history, culture, and power, and experience precarity as a result. 

  • We ask that participants with the means, including those receiving institutional support, pay a minimum of $2000 in person and $400 online, thereby directly making registration more affordable for others.

Fellowship. All Fellowship recipients receive a fully funded registration, courtesy of either The Flaherty or our Fellowship Partners. The Flaherty Fellowship begins a day earlier than the full seminar, on Friday, June 16th.

Applications for the Fellowship open March 1st.

The Flaherty at Skidmore College

We are inspired by Skidmore’s many modular and accessible spaces, invigorated by the campus’ collaborative and interdisciplinary environments, and heartened by recent changes in leadership and the unionization of non-tenure track faculty.

We are eager to collaborate with the teams at the John B. Moore Documentary Studies Collaborative, the MDOCS Storytellers' Institute, the Tang Teaching Museum, and the Office of Conferences and Events teams on the upcoming seminar.

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Images: 2018 Seminar photographed by Robert M. GoodmanImage; 2017 Seminar photographed by Anne-Katrine Hansen; courtesy skidmore.edu


Flaherty Filmmaker Event

An Evening with Bill Basquin
Monday, February 13, 7 pm
The Museum of Modern Art

MoMA's Modern Mondays series hosts Flaherty NYC alum and Bay Area–based filmmaker Bill Basquin (Flaherty NYC Filmmaker 2019) for the New York premiere of his feature From Inside of Here (2020), which explores the relationship between body and landscape.

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Image (detail) courtesy the artist


The Flaherty Recommends

Attend the One Earth Film Festival
March 3-12, 2023
Virtual & In-person across the Chicagoland area

One Earth Film Festival returns March 3-12, 2023, for its 12th festival season with its annual launch party and 10 thoughtfully curated film events that will be streamed online, with about a dozen in-person screenings, including “View & Brew” events, in the greater Chicago area.

Image courtesy One Earth Film Festival

Register for the Greaves Filmmaker Seminar
March 16-18, 2023, Philadelphia

Registration is open for BlackStar’s 2023 William + Louise Greaves Filmmaker Seminar! The Seminar is a rare space that brings together Black, Brown, and Indigenous artists for workshops, panels, and deep conversations about their filmmaking practice – without having to manage the added burden of representation. This year acclaimed artist Cauleen Smith will be holding the keynote and the visionary Terence Nance will be presenting a director’s commentary. 

Photo by Mariam Dembele

Order SEEN 05
The Dreams Issue: Winter 2023

Seen is a journal of film and visual culture focused on Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities globally, published by BlackStar Projects twice each calendar year.

The Dreams Issue features Flaherty Filmmaker Cauleen Smith In Her Own Words, and Anaïs Duplan, Aurella Yussuf, Beandrea July, Clarkisha Kent, Deborah Anzinger, Dessane Lopez Cassell, Flordalis Espinal, Ifeanyi Awachie, Iris Torres-Gatherer, Isabel Ling, Jasmin Hernandez, Kambole Campbell, Kareem Reid, Kenny Rivero, Lakshmi Padmanabhan, Lizania Cruz, Lou Cornum, Rashida Bumbray, Rianna Jade Parker, Rohini Kejriwal, Widline Cadet, Xia Gordon.

Photo by Shanlynne Silvestre, Imagenfotografi


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September Newsletter: Flaherty NYC Season 24 "let’s all be lichen", programmed by asinnajaq

September Newsletter: Flaherty NYC Season 24 "let’s all be lichen", programmed by asinnajaq

SEPTEMBER NEWSLETTER: Announcing the Flaherty NYC Fall Series let’s all be lichen by asinnajaq, Continents of Drifting Clouds continues, Submit your 2024 Letters of Intent, Purchase your Clouds T-shirt & Opacity Catalogue Today!