Ithaca College

Patricia Zimmermann, Professor of Screen Studies and Co-director of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, and Scott MacDonald, Professor of Cinema at Hamilton College, did a keynote roundtable on their new book, Flash Flaherty: Tales from a Film Seminar (Indiana University, 2021) at the Prismatic Ground Film Festival, New York, New York, April 17, 2021 via Zoom webinar.

Flash Flaherty 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.