The Flaherty is currently accepting fellowship grant applications for its June film seminar. I attended last year on a Professional Development grant and it was one of the richest professional and personal experiences I had last year. I highly recommend attending if you've never experienced the Seminar, whether you're an industry professional, filmmaker, media maker, producer, student, academician, curator, programmer, archivist. The Flaherty actually offers three types of Fellowships which provide a bit of financial support to attend, a professional development grant, a student grant and a Philadelphia Foundation grant. Preference is given to first-time applicants (you can attend the Seminar twice as a Fellow in nonconsecutive years). The deadline is March 13. For more info, click here. [A shot of last year's '08 Fellows on the Colgate University campus quad.]
Also, employees of any New York State nonprofit organization focusing on the media arts can apply for a grant through the Experimental Television Center. On the site, go to the application for the Media Arts Technical Assistance Fund grant. That deadline is the 27th of March.
As it did last year, this year's Seminar, the 55th, will take place June 20 - 26 at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York. It's a new home for the Flaherty and it's an ideal spot--beautiful little town, beautiful campus, quiet, serene, green and lovely; attendees can even use the gym, track and swimming pool. Another huge draw this year is sure to be the amazing program Seminar curator, Irina Leimbacher (last year's Fellows coordinator), will be programming called "Witnesses, Monuments, Ruins." The accommodations in the dorms are a bit rustic, but trust me, you're rarely in your room. Fees include accommodations, meals, screenings, discussions and receptions. Again, go to the site to get more details on deadlines for registration.
This Monday, the 9th at 7:30 at the Anthology Film Archives, the Flaherty continues its Flaherty NYC screening series with Jim Finn. He's bringing his 2008 feature called The Juche Idea. Translated as "self-reliance," Juche is a mixture of Confucian and Stalinist pseudosocialism, a school of philosophy North Korean leader, Kim Jong Il, adapted from his father to apply to propaganda, film and art. Inspired by the true story of the South Korean director being kidnapped in the 70s to invigorate the North Korean film industry, the film follows Yoon Jung Lee, a young video artist invited to work at a Juche art residency on a North Korean collective farm. In Variety, Robert Koehler said of the film, "The evidence that current filmmaking is brimming with original, standard-breaking creations has to include the work of Jim Finn, whose brilliant The Juche Idea is the latest in a growing filmography without precedent or category."
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