Join us for the international launch of Scott MacDonald and Patricia R. Zimmermann's new book, FLASH FLAHERTY: TALES FROM A FILM SEMINAR (Indiana, 2021) on Thursday, April 29 at 7 p.m. Eastern. Join us for the international launch of Scott MacDonald and Patricia R. Zimmermann's new book, FLASH FLAHERTY: TALES FROM A FILM SEMINAR (Indiana, 2021) on Thursday, April 29 at 7 p.m. Eastern.
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FLASH FLAHERTY, the much-anticipated follow-up volume to THE FLAHERTY: DECADES IN THE CAUSE OF INDEPENDENT CINEMA, offers a people’s history of the world-renowned Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, an annual event where participants confront and reimagine the creative process surrounding multiple document/documentary forms and modes of the moving image.
Together, the contributors to FLASH FLAHERTY exemplify how the Flaherty Seminar propels shared insights, challenging debates, and actual change in the world of independent media.
This launch features readings from the book by the editors and contributors:
Lucius Barre, international film publicist
Portia Cobb, filmmaker
Scott MacDonald, author and scholar
Laura U. Marks, author and scholar
Susana de Sousa Dias, filmmaker
Patricia R. Zimmermann, author and scholar
Girish Shambu, Moderator, and editor of Film Quarterly’s Quorum
Hosted by Raza Rumi, Director, Park Center for Independent Media
This launch is co-presented by the Park Center for Independent Media and The Flaherty, with producing support from Ann Michel and Phil Wilde, Insights International, and Ari Kissiloff, associate producer and technical consultant, with music by Robby Aceto.
International launch book discount with IUP Press: Flash30
Flash Flaherty: Tales from a Film Seminar, coedited with Scott MacDonald, (Indiana University Press, 2021) https://iupress.org/9780253053985/flash-flaherty/
https://www.ithaca.edu/intercom/article.php/20210427180331974