COUNTDOWN:  FLEFF's 2011 edition, Checkpoints, is only two months away.

Over the next day or so, we invite you to meet our FLEFF intern blogging staff.  Ithaca College student interns for FLEFF 2011 offer a unique inside look at the festival, its operations, and its guests.

After they introduce themselves and explain why they joined FLEFF this year, they will serve as your trusted guides through the programming, guests, ideas, music, film, new media and issues that form FLEFF.

They might even have a scoop or two, and, if you nudge them, maybe some recommendations.

From checkpoint to checkpoint, they will dive into FLEFF and bring the programming to you from the inside and from the ground up.

And, of course, they want to create a place for the three big D's undergirding FLEFF:  dialogue, debate, discussion.

We'll see you online for all three--and more! See you at the Checkpoint!