Collaborative Partners

Funders

The Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival is supported through a major collaboration between the Division of Interdisciplinary and International Studies and the Roy H. Park School of Communication. The Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival has been made possible in part by a grant from the Park Foundation. Support is also provided by the Ithaca College library, School of Business, School of Humanities and Sciences, School of Music, and School of Health Sciences and Human Performance. Additional support is provided by the Office of Equal Opportunity Compliance, Division of Student Affairs and Campus Life, Office of Student Engagement and Multicultural Affairs, LGBT Education Outreach Service, Women Direct, Cinema on the Edge, Handwerker Gallery, Environmental Studies, Office of Alumni Relations, and the Departments of Politics and Cinema, Photography, and Media Arts. Funding for visiting artists is made possible by the Experimental Television Center, which is part of the regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts, as well as the Central New York Programmers Group. The Tournées (Francophone cinema) Festival was made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Ministry of Culture (CNC).


Sponsors
Festival Staff

  • Codirectors: Thomas Shevory and Patricia Zimmermann
  • 7th Art Corporation Executive Directors: Lynne Cohen and Rich Szanyi
  • Collaborative Partner: 7th Art Corporation
  • Theatrical Programmers: Lynne Cohen and Rich Szanyi
  • Latin American Film Curator and Liaison: Cecelia Lawless
  • Undisclosed Recipients Curators: Dale Hudson and Sharon Lin Tay
  • Open Call Programmers: Meg Jamieson and Leah Shafer
  • Beatles Tribute Concert Producer: Doug Levine*
  • Curator of Global HIV/AIDS Series, in partnership with ACT Africa Media Center/PACT, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria: Peyi Soyinka-Airewele
  • Women Direct 26th Anniversary Curator: Barbara Adams
  • Handwerker Gallery Director: Cheryl Kramer
  • Ithaca City of Asylum Liaisons: Barbara Adams and Paul Hamill
  • Poetry Programmer: Paul Hamill
  • Memescapes Opening Night Producers: Ann Michel and Phil Wilde
  • His People Producer: Peter Rothbart*
  • Sonic Programmers: Gene Endres and Chris Wheatley*
  • Ambient Media Programmer: Peter Earle
  • Director of Marketing: Tom Torello*
  • Marketing Communications Manager: Heather Hedges
  • Director of Public Information: Ann Macdonald
  • Public Information Outreach: Keith Davis and Dave Maley
  • Special Projects Coordinator/Business Manager: Marian Brown*
  • Development: Katy Noonanand Will Kay
  • Festival Fellows and Minicourse Coordinator: Warren Schlesinger
  • Assistant to the Directors: Abigail Munro
  • Programming Consultants: Barb Adams, Stewart Auyash, Traevena Byrd, Jodi Cohen, Matt Fee, Roger Hallas, Paul Hamill, Terri Martinez, Lisa Maurer, Roger Richardson, and Gordon Rowland*
  • Director of Technical Operations: David Priester*
  • Technical Staff: Peter Earle, Tommy Inman, Kevin Michael, and Kevin Thornton
  • Buzz Committee: Rebecca Ansel, Jodi Cohen, Matt Fee, Jairo Geronymo, Roger Hallas, Shaianne Osterreich, Lisa Patti, and the board of the 7th Art Corporation
  • Event and Venue Managers: Akkenzhe Alimzhan, Steve Codner, Rachele Guzalak, XiaoYu Hou, Abigail Munro, Tara Rothberg, Nathalie Sin, and Rocio Trujillo Chavez
  • Festival Consultants: Richard Herskowitz, Shannon Kelly*, Steve Gordon, and Swee Wong
  • Gaming Consultant: Simon Tarr
  • Ambient Media Consultant: Joel Bachar
  • Ithaca College Library Acquisitions and Consulting: Lis Chabot, Jennifer Strickland
  • Film and Video Bookings: Kelly Merritt
  • Ithaca College Bookstore: Rod Beers, Jim Best, and Mike Bovi
  • Travel: Stephanie Serino and Stone Travel
  • Executive Producer and Dean of Division of Interdisciplinary and International Studies: Tanya Saunders
  • Dean of Roy H. Park School of Communications: Dianne Lynch
  • Founding Director and Programmer: Christopher Riley
  • Hospitality Coordinator: Marian Brown*

*Ithaca College alumni



Ithaca College Faculty Participants

  • Barbara Adams, Assistant Professor, Writing
  • Farshad Aminian, Assistant Professor, Cinema, Photography, and Media Arts
  • Stewart Auyash, Associate Professor, Health Promotion and Physical Education
  • Julie Boles, Assistant Professor and Coordinator, Health Promotion and Physical Education
  • Changhee Chun, Assistant Professor, Cinema, Photography, and Media Arts
  • Karen Edwards, Assistant Professor, Health Promotion and Physical Education
  • Megan Ehrhart, Assistant Professor, Cinema, Photography, and Media Arts
  • Marie Garland, Assistant Professor, Communication Management and Design
  • Jason Hamilton, Assistant Professor, Biology
  • Nancy Jacobson, Assistant Professor, Biology
  • Meg Jamieson, Assistant Professor, Cinema, Photography, and Media Arts
  • Joyce Jesionowski, Lecturer, Cinema, Photography, and Media Arts
  • Julia Lapp, Assistant Professor, Health Promotion and Physical Education
  • Annette Levine, Assistant Professor, Modern Languages and Literature
  • Jason Livingston, Assistant Professor, Cinema, Photography, and Media Arts
  • Kati Lustyik, Assistant Professor, Television and Radio
  • Elisabeth Nonas, Assistant Professor, Cinema, Photography, and Media Arts
  • Shaianne Osterreich, Assistant Professor, Economics
  • Lisa Patti, Lecturer, Cinema, Photography, and Media Arts
  • Margoe Ramlal-Nankoe, Assistant Professor, Sociology
  • Megan Roberts, Associate Professor, Television and Radio
  • David Saiia, Assistant Professor, Management
  • Eric Sterbenk, Lecturer, Television and Radio


Ithaca College Student Interns

Cara Abel, Madalyn Averbach, Danielle Baker, Brian Barnes, Nelson Barnica, Christi Betz, Shannon Beyer, Daniel Buquicchio, Sarah Brylinksy, Rachele Ceccorulli, Jennifer Chen, Victoria Chenoweth, Brian Cicero, Christina Citek, Meghan Damelio, Peter D’Angelo, Bethany Davison, Gregory Dunbar, Josh Elmer, Alexander Evans, Samantha Folli, Maggie Flood, Amanda Frankel, Allison Gee, Sarah Gerstenblatt, Jeremy Greenberg, Jennie Hirvasoja, Jeremy Hou, Gabrielle Immarino, Kyle Kelley, Kayla Knapp, Caitlin Kopcik, Astrid Kutzer, Renee Ladue, Jessica Langan-Peck, Mackenzie Macy, Mary Marsden, Evan Meaney, Jacqueline McBrien, Jonathan McElroy, Rachel Milbauer, A.J. Mizes, Virginia Moore, Sarah Naylor, Elizabeth Nolan, Nellie Norden, Callen O’Connell, Vanessa Odenbach, Rachel Paige, Egemen Pekoz, Katherine Pillich, Rebecca Pine, Harshavardhini Raja, Rachel Roscoe, Jessica Ruoti, Elizabeth Sawyer, Rachel Sherard, Lauren Spitz, Sasha Stefanova, Elise Stevens, Tatiana Sy, Jeff Tatanus, Laura Thornton, Jordan Trigilio, Erin Tustin, Erika Vonie, Jesse Wakeman, Ravindi Walisinghe, Nichelle Wheeler, Cornell Woodson, Canan Yasar, Jessica Yuhaniak, Michael Yun, Kelly Zenger O’Brien, Austra Zubkovs


Faculty Steering Committee

  • Stewart Auyash, Health Promotion and Physical Education
  • Changhee Chun, Cinema, Photography, and Media Arts
  • Jodi Cohen, Speech Communication
  • Lisa Drew, Journalism
  • Marie Garland, Strategic Communication
  • Jairo Geronymo, Performance Studies, School of Music
  • Jason Hamilton, Biology
  • Cheryl Kramer, Art History
  • Kati Lustyik, Television/Radio
  • Peter Rothbart, Music Theory, History, and Composition
  • David Saiia, Business Administration
  • Warren Schlesinger, Accounting
  • Michael Smith, History
  • Peyi Soyinka-Airewele, Politics


International Advisory Board


* Ithaca College alumnus


Mission Statement

The Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival at Ithaca College embraces and interrogates sustainability across all of its forms: economic, social, ecological, political, cultural, technological, and aesthetic. The festival is in the spirit of UNESCO’s initiative on sustainable development. This initiative has redefined and expanded environmental issues to explore the international interconnections between war, disease, health, genocide, the land, water, air, food, education, technology, cultural heritage, and diversity. Through film, video, new media, installation, performance, panels, and presentations, the festival engages interdisciplinary dialogue and vigorous debate. It links the local with the global. And it showcases Ithaca College as a regional and national center for thinking differently—in new ways, interfaces, and forms—about the environment and sustainability.


History

The Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival was launched in 1997 as an outreach project from the Center for the Environment at Cornell University. Always dedicated to films with a message, the festival, under program director Christopher Riley, expanded to become a major regional event in upstate New York. In 2004 Ithaca College was the major sponsor and host of the festival. In 2005 the festival moved permanently to Ithaca College, where it is housed in the Division of Interdisciplinary and International Studies as a program to link intellectual inquiry and debate to larger global issues. Professor of cinema, photography, and media arts Patricia Zimmerman and professor of politics Thomas Shevory are the codirectors of the festival.




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