*YOU ARE INVITED TO* *FLASH FLAHERTY: TALES FROM A FILM SEMINAR BOOK LAUNCH EPISODE 3*
*Tomorrow, Sunday, June 201 p.m. Eastern Time (US and Canada)* Please join us for Episode 3 of Scott MacDonald and Patricia Zimmermann’s FLASH FLAHERTY: TALES FROM A FILM SEMINAR (Indiana University Press, 2021). *Register in advance for this meeting:* *https://ithaca.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIod-urrjIvH9WGOk1jh_OaJ6jr1n1uw4_3* <https://ithaca.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIod-urrjIvH9WGOk1jh_OaJ6jr1n1uw4_3> Readings by contributors to the book details below: *FLASH FLAHERTY: TALES FROM A FILM SEMINAR* *EPISODE 3* *Sunday June 20* *HOST* *Lucius Barre *specializes in promoting international distribution for films from many cultures. Barre represented the first crossover films of Pedro Almódovar, Shinji Aoyama, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Atom Egoyan, Zacharias Kunuk, Jean-Claude Lauzon, Johnnie To, and Tom Tykwer; and has collaborated with well- established filmmakers such as Lee Chang-dong, Errol Morris, Alain Resnais, Carlos Saura, Volker Schlöndorff and Hiroshi Teshigahara. He has promoted film programs for the national film agencies of Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden. Barre has served as the long-time protocol officer at the Rotterdam Festival, and has consulted with festivals at Abu Dhabi, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Karlovy Vary, New York, Locarno, and San Francisco. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and a former Trustee of the Flaherty International Film Seminars. *TOASTMASTER* A filmmaker, writer, and programmer, *Jason Livingston* has worked with many non-profits, including Cornell Cinema, the Experimental TV Center, and the Standby Program., and others. He currently serves on the Flaherty Film Seminar Board of Trustees with the Flaherty Seminar. His award-winning work has screened widely, including at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Anthology Film Archives, the Austrian Museum, and the Vancouver Art Gallery, and more. *Under Foot & Overstory* (2005) is distributed by the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, and *Lake Affect* (2007) is available through Electronic Arts Intermix as part of the Experimental Television Center DVD boxed set. He is currently pursuing a practice-based PhD with the Department of Media Study at the University at Buffalo, New York. *SPEAKERS/READERS* *Ann Michel* is the founder, President, and co-owner of Insights International Inc., a production firm specializing in science and educational on-line, TV, and theatrical events. She has also served as President of the Robert Flaherty Film Seminars. *Philip Wilde *is Vice-President and principal and co-owner of Insights International, http://www.electronranch.com. Their documentary Reversing Oblivion (2017), about recovered Jewish identity, lost land, and abandoned property in Poland, is currently on the international festival circuit. *Sami van Ingen* is a Finland-based experimental filmmaker, installation artist, curator, and educator. He has made over thirty films probing the act of seeing through deconstructing, manipulating, and rephotographing found footage such as home movies, travelogue scenes, mainstream blockbusters, or archival discoveries. His films have screened at the Edinburgh Film Festival, Image Forum Tokyo, Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento in Buenos Aires, and at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, Centre Pompidou, and Anthology Film Archives. He has also published *Moving Shadows: Experimental Film Practices in a Landscape of Change* (2012). *Jean-Marie Teno,* originally from Cameroon, has produced and directed social-issue films on the colonial and post-colonial history of Africa for over twenty-five years, for both international television broadcast and theatrical release. Exploring race, cultural identity, African history, and contemporary politics, his large body of films include *Afrique, je te plumerai* (Africa, I Will Pluck You Clean, 1992*); Le malentendu* *colonial* (The Colonial Misunderstanding, 2004); *Lieux saints* (Sacred Places, 2009); *Une feuille dans le vent* (A Leaf in the Wind, 2013). The Berlin, Toronto, Yamagata, Cinéma du Réel, Visions du Réel, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Leipzig, San Francisco, and London film festivals have honored his films. *Marit Kathryn Corneil* is a Canadian scholar and filmmaker teaching film studies and documentary at the Department for Art and Media Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway. She has published chapters in *Beyond the Visual* (2010), *Challenge for Change:* *Activist Documentary at the National Film Board of Canada* (2010), and *Hvor Går Dokumentaren?* (2014). Her research examines contemporary documentary film theory and practice, tracing genealogies of various traditions, approaches, and epistemologies, and traditions. *Paweł Wojtasik* is a filmmaker and video artist born in Łódź, Poland, and living in Brooklyn, New York. He trained as a painter. From 1998 until 2000, he was a resident at Dai Bosatsu Zendo Buddhist monastery. Wojtasik’s work has been exhibited at MoMA / PS1, The the Whitney Museum, the Museum of the Moving Image, the Reina Sofia Museum,( Madrid), and the Martos Gallery, New York. It has also screened at the Locarno, Berlin, and New York film festivals and other international venues. Wojtasik co-directed *End of Life* (2017) with John Bruce. His *Every Pulse of the Heart Is Work* (2019), a feature-length film shot in Varanasi, India, was included in 2020 Doc Fortnight at MoMA. *Karin Chien* has produced ten feature-length independent films, receiving the Cinereach Producers Award and the Independent Spirit Producer’s Award. Her films have won over one -hundred festival awards, premiered at the Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals, and been distributed in twenty countries. She is the Founder/President of dGenerate Films, the leading distributor of independent cinema from mainland China. She cocreated the Cinema on the Edge screening series, celebrating contemporary Chinese cinema, and cofounded the boutique production company i love 2, which specializes in socially conscious short-format content. She consults for the Sundance Institute, The New York Times, Film Independent, Independent Television Service (ITVS), and Cinereach. *COEDITORS OF FLASH FLAHERTY* Named an Academy Scholar by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences in 2012, *Scott MacDonald* is the author of 20 books, *including A Critical Cinema: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers* (5 volumes), and has done numerous essays and interviews. His newest books are *American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary: The Cambridge Turn *(essays) and *Avant-Doc: Intersections of Documentary and Avant-Garde Cinema* (interviews). He has curated and presented film events for the Museum of Modern Art, the Harvard Film Archive, the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley and elsewhere. *Flash Flaherty: Tales from a Film Seminar* is a follow-up to his and Patricia R. Zimmermann’s book, *The Flaherty: Decades in the Cause of Independent Cinema.* *Patricia R. Zimmermann* is Professor of Screen Studies and Co-Director of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival at Ithaca College. Her most recent books include *Flash Flaherty: Tales from a Film Seminar* (2021) with Scott MacDonald; *Documentary Across Platforms: Reverse Engineering Media, Place, and Politics* (2019); *Open Space New Media Documentary: A Toolkit for Theory and Practice* (2018); *The Flaherty: Decades in the Cause of Independent Cinema* (2017); and *Thinking Through Digital Media: Transnational Environments and Locative Places* (2015). With Louis Massiah, she is co-programmer of the national touring exhibition *We Tell: Fifty Years of Participatory Community Media.* *Other Links to Post:* Book launch discount for FLASH FLAHERTY: TALES FROM A FILM SEMINAR Flash30 *Flash Flaherty: Tales from a Film Seminar*, coedited with Scott MacDonald, (Indiana University Press, 2021) https://iupress.org/9780253053985/flash-flaherty/ The Flaherty Seminar 2021 https://www.flahertyseminar.org/
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