FLEFF

ITHACA, NY — Seventh Art Corporation of Ithaca — a major partner in Ithaca College’s Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) — will open a five-screen multiplex art cinema on Green Street on May 27, and the co-directors of FLEFF are asking civic-minded filmgoers to lend a hand to get the new facility ready for its opening.

Fuse writers, photographers, and videographers were all over the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) this year, taking photographs, interviewing producers, talking to interns, and recording the buzz.

Check out our series of stories wrapping up the festival, and make plans to join us at FLEFF next year. It's a week-long festival you won't want to...

FLEFF has long been cutting edge, but this year it went interactive.

Festival organizers introduced FLEFF labs: interactive activities led by filmmakers, musicians, writers, visiting fellows, digital artists and other FLEFF guests. The labs gave festival goers the opportunity to step out of the role of observer and create something in their own right.

As part of the...

Ann Michel and Phil Wilde have been an integral part of FLEFF for several years. This year the Ithaca-based multimedia producers -- and real-life couple -- participated in a FLEFF lab based on their video project The Estrogen Connection, which seeks to educate students about cancer prevention.

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When  FLEFF intern Siobhan Cavanagh '12, a cinema and photography major, met film director John Valadez, she could not believe how truly interested he was in talking with her. “We talked about my intentions in going into film, and we talked about his experience and breaks in the industry,” she said. “It was really awesome to meet an award-winning director who is actually...