Flaherty Film Seminar Scholarships - March 5 deadline

Flaherty Newsletter The Flaherty March 2010 In This Issue What's New at The Flaherty 2010 Flaherty Seminar The Flaherty Recommends Flaherty Filmmakers in the News Flaherty Fellows in the News Call for Entries Flaherty Sponsors Join our list Join our mailing list! What's New at The Flaherty Flaherty Fellowship Deadline is this Friday, March 5. The Flaherty is currently offering three Fellowships which provide economic support to applicants interested in attending the Seminar: Professional Development, Student, and just announced - LEF New England Fellowships (deadline for LEF applicants is March 15). All fellowships are highly competitive. Preference will be given to first-time Seminar attendees. If you have previously received a Flaherty Fellowship, you are not eligible to apply. For eligibility requirements and more information on our fellowships, please go to www.flahertyseminar.org. Other Financial Grants Available: Employees of New York State Non-Profit organizations focusing on media arts may apply for a grant to attend the 2010 Robert Flaherty Film Seminar through the Experimental Television Center. Go to www.experimentaltvcenter.org and apply for a Media Arts Technical Assistance Fund grant. Deadline is March 12. 2010 Flaherty Seminar Registration We are now accepting registrations for the 56th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, taking place June 19-25 at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York. Sign up now to guarantee your spot. Registration is first-come, first-serve and we did sell out early last year. The Seminar registration fee is all-inclusive and includes accommodation, meals, Seminar screenings, discussions, receptions, and all other special events throughout the week. Go to www.flahertyseminar.org to register! Flaherty NYC Monday, March 8, 7:30pm Kamal Aljafari A screening of recent works from the Palestinian filmmaker based in Cologne, Germany including The Roof, a quiet, personal testament to the history and daily oppression of Palestinians living in Israel, and Balconies, an experimental meditation focusing on the deteriorating and unfinished balconies of Ramleh, reminders of the potential that a neighborhood now scarred by war and conflict once had. Aljafari was a featured artist at the 2009 Robert Flaherty Film Seminar and is currently a Radcliffe-Harvard Film Study Center Fellow. *The Roof (2006, 61min, Palestine) "An eloquent and understated exploration of physical and psychic place in the context of Palestinian filmmaker Aljafari's family history. Returning to his parents' and grandmother's homes in Ramleh and Jaffa, now part of Israel, Aljafari uses elegant cinematography, unhurried rhythms, and fragmented narrative to convey how space, time, and history have been molded by politics and Israeli institutionalized neglect. The roof of the title is an absent one, on the unfinished house where his family has lived since their resettlement in 1948, and it functions as a place of waiting marked by constant deferral.-- Irina Leimbacher. This film screened at the 2009 Flaherty Seminar. *Balconies (2009, 8 min, Palestine) An experimental meditation focusing on the deteriorating and unfinished balconies of Ramleh, reminders of the potential that this neighborhood, now scarred by war and conflict, once had. TICKET INFORMATION: General admission tickets to the Flaherty NYC series at Anthology Film Archives are $9, $7 for students with valid ID and $6 for Anthology members. Tickets can be purchased at the Anthology box office the day of the show. For more information, call The Flaherty at 212-448-0457 or visit us online at http://www.flahertyseminar.org. 2009 Flaherty Seminar Catalogue Now on Sale! The Catalogue is a great keepsake of the Witnesses, Monuments, Ruins Seminar experience and includes essays, film program notes, filmmakers' biographies, a Flaherty Fellows section, print source list, Seminar photographs by S. Smith Patrick and Theo Rigby, and much more. To order the 2009 Flaherty Catalogue or others from previous years for just $15, click HERE. Become a fan of the Flaherty on Facebook! To keep receiving news, recommendations, and screening invitations from The Flaherty, be sure to become a fan of our Facebook Fan Page here right away! Follow us on Twitter Stay up to the minute with our updates, events, and recommendations, by following The Flaherty Seminar on Twitter, @flahertyseminar (http://twitter .com/flahertyseminar). 2010 Flaherty Seminar WORK June 19-25, 2010 Colgate University, Hamilton NY Programmed by Dennis Lim Work consumes our daily lives - as a means of survival, a badge of identity, and a lifelong source of joy or sorrow. Bringing together a wide range of films and videos, WORK, the 2010 Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, will examine the ways in which artists depict and explore the daily rituals and larger implications of work as well as the changing nature of work and the workplace. The Seminar will provide a panoramic survey of work in its many facets - from the history of labor strife to the rise of global capitalism to the abandoned working class of post-industrial societies in America and China. Dennis Lim - 2010 Flaherty Seminar Programmer Dennis Lim is a New York based critic and editor. He is the founding editor of Moving Image Source, the online publication and research resource of the Museum of the Moving Image. He writes regularly for The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times, and was a film critic at The Village Voice from 1998 to 2006, as well as its film editor from 2000 to 2006. He is also the editor of The Village Voice Film Guide (Wiley, 2006). A member of the National Society of Film Critics, he has programmed film series at BAMcinematek in New York and served on juries at film festivals internationally, including the San Sebastian, Vancouver, Tribeca, Seoul Digital, and South by Southwest Film Festivals. He teaches in the Cultural Reporting and Criticism graduate program at New York University and is currently a member of the New York Film Festival selection committee.