Ithaca College

Submitted on behalf of Provost Benjamin Rifkin:

Patricia Zimmermann, professor of screen studies and codirector of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, has been selected for the Roster of Fulbright Specialists.  Her selection is a result of her books, publications, lectures, and workshops on democratic new media documentary and her research and programming work on environmental and human rights issues across media and multiple arts for the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival at Ithaca College.

This Roster is a list of candidates who are eligible to be matched with incoming project requests from overseas academic institutions for Fulbright Specialists.  Dr. Zimmerman will be considered for projects that require her expertise. 

 The Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) at Ithaca College embraces and interrogates sustainability across all of its forms: economic, social, ecological, political, cultural, technological, and aesthetic. The festival is in the spirit of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) initiative on sustainable development. This initiative has redefined and expanded environmental issues to explore the international interconnections between war, disease, health, genocide, the land, water, air, food, education, technology, cultural heritage, and diversity. Through film, video, new media, installation, performance, panels, and presentations, the festival engages interdisciplinary dialogue and vigorous debate. It links the local with the global and it showcases Ithaca College as a regional and national center for thinking in new ways, interfaces and forms about the environment and sustainability. 

FLEFF 2016’s theme “Landscapes” will be held March 28, 2016 – April 3, 2016.  The 20th anniversary of FLEFF will be celebrated in 2017-18 and will also honor the work of Dr. Zimmerman, Dr. Thomas Shevory, co-director, and the FLEFF team.