Ithaca College

Patricia Zimmermann, Professor of Screen Studies and co-director of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, was an invited speaker and presenter at the University of Chicago February 19-21, 2020. 

Zimmermann presented a salon and lecture on her new book, Documentary Across Platforms: Reverse Engineering Media, Place, and Politics (Indiana, 2019).  She also presented the Wages of Work program of We Tell: Fifty Years of Participatory Community Media, with a panel of scholars and labor activist makers from Chicago.

The We Tell: Fifty Years of Participatory Community Media national touring exhibition will run over a two-month span at the University of Chicago Film Center.  All six programs in the exhibition will be screened with invited featured makers and panels.

Patricia Zimmermann, Professor of Screen Studies and co-director of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, co-programmed with Louis Massiah of Scribe Video Center in Philadelphia.

The exhibition features 41 media works from 36 diverse community-based producers, and works from 19 states and Puerto Rico.  

We Tell is supported through grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ford Foundation Just Films, and the Independence Public Media Foundation.