Ithaca College

Annual festival brings film screenings, speakers and concerts to IC and local community.

The 23rd Annual Fingers Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) features a weeklong series of film screenings, concerts, lectures, exhibitions, masterclasses and workshops focused on the theme of “Infiltrations.” The festival runs March 23 through 29, with events on the Ithaca College campus and downtown at Cinemapolis, 120 E. Green St.

The Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival at Ithaca College embraces and interrogates sustainability across all its forms: aesthetic, cultural, ecological, economic, political, social, and technological. This year’s festival explores how infiltrations attack from behind enemy lines, suggest guerilla tactics, subvert all forms of dominance and open spaces for new possibilities.

FLEFF special guests will include a variety of notable individuals spanning the arts, film, music, new media, scholarly and writing sectors from across the US and the globe. More than 60 events are scheduled on the Ithaca College campus, in addition to 42 screenings of international cinema and new media at Cinemapolis.

The opening night event is “Perfect Recipe for an Epidemic: Stigma, Inequity, and Exclusion,” a presentation by Dr. Justine Waldman, founder of the Reach Project. The free presentation will be held on Monday, March 23, at 7:30 p.m. in Klingenstein in the campus center.

The opening multimedia concert, “The Infiltrations Concert” features faculty performers Janet Galvan, Dmitri Novgorodsky, Dawn Pierce, Christin Schillinger, Marc Webster, Aaron Witek, and Christopher Zemliauskas, multimedia projections from Ann Michel and Phil Wilde of Insights International, and stage direction by Norman Johnson. Two alums will also perform:  Daniel Bates, tenor, and Jaylene Clark Owens, poet/actress. The free concert is Tuesday March 24 at 8:15 p.m. in Hockett Family Recital Hall.

A detailed schedule and description of events and participants is available on the FLEFF website. All events are open to the public, with free events taking place on the Ithaca College campus, while those at Cinemapolis require tickets. Adult festival passes are $40 and student passes are $20. Individual screening tickets are $10.50 for adults and $9 for students and seniors.

Launched in 1997 as an outreach project from Cornell University’s Center for the Environment, the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival was moved permanently to Ithaca College in 2005. It is housed in the Office of the Provost as a program to link intellectual inquiry and debate to larger global issues.

For more information, contact FLEFF co-directors Patricia Zimmermann at (607) 274-3431 or patty@ithaca.edu; or Tom Shevory at (607) 274-1347 or shevory@ithaca.edu.

Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Patricia Zimmermann at patty@ithaca.edu or (607) 274-3431. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.