Ithaca College Library
The Ithaca College library joins us a major collaborative partner. This year, the festival continues working with the library to create the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival series, works screened during the festival that will be added to our in house noncirculating library for teaching and research. The series will be searchable online via the library's website; films and videos will be identified as FLEFF programs in the catalogue. The Ithaca College librarians recognize the films have an enduring educational value across the curriculum to enhance teaching and research. With the FLEFF series, they seek to promote nonfeature films and international cinemas, redefining our preconceptions about the environment within a more international framework. Festival works selected for the library are noted as "FLEFF library series." These works will be available for faculty and students after the festival closes.
Ithaca College Bookstore
For festival goers looking to immerse more deeply in the issues, debates, and work encountered this year, the Ithaca College bookstore will feature books, CDs, and DVDs from our visiting artists, scholars, musicians, and writers, as well as books and CDs related to this year's topics. Festival tie-ins (T-shirts, etc.) are also available there. Check out the special Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival displays in the bookstore windows for ideas about what to buy.
Festival Fellows Program
The Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival Fellows program brings outstanding graduate students of color from all disciplines to campus during the festival to immerse them in screenings, lectures, workshops, master classes, and events within an engaging, interdisciplinary, think-tank environment. The festival fellows cohort engages with Ithaca College faculty and students from across campus, as well as with festival guests to explore linkages between sustainable development, different media platforms, globalization, race, ethnicity, gender, and music in order to stimulate new research and thinking in the areas of sustainability, interdisciplinary research, and international issues. Selection to the festival fellows program is highly competitive. The festival fellows program is an initiative of the Office of Equal Opportunity Compliance.
2007 Festival Fellows
Maria Demetrios Castilo, Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
Steve Choe, Film Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Antonio Cuyler, Art Education and Art Administration, Florida State University
Adriel Hilton, Higher Education, Morgan State University
Deveryle James, Comparative Literature, State University of New York at Buffalo
Thomas Leyba, Literacy and Social Justice, Arizona State University
Umar Moulta-Ali, Sociology, Ohio State University
Brenda Rascon, Biology, Arizona State University
Roona Ray, Medicine/Health, University of Massachusetts
Sachiko Tankei-Aminian, Intercultural Communications, Southern Illinois University
Ntiranyibagira Zenaide, Romance Language and Literature/French Studies, State University of New York at Buffalo
Special Festival Minicourses
Beyond the Maps
FREN 22000-01
This course will explore how five French and Francophone festival films challenge our sociological, philosophical, sexual, and esthetic maps. These movies not only show different cultures and environments with which we are more or less familiar, but also lead spectators to think about their own cultures and prejudices.
Patricia Gravatt, assistant professor
The Greening of Corporate Management
BINT19700-01
This course aims to create an awareness of the extent of environmental degradation and will examine different approaches to green corporate management. Concepts of environmental ethics will be introduced.
June Wu, instructor
Live Sound for Silent Film
MUNM 27100-01
This workshop course will focus on developing a sound design for the film, His People, to be screened on the closing night of the festival. Prerequisite: digital recording and editing, or advanced audio production, permission of instructor.
Peter Rothbart, professor
Poverty, Panic, and Population Health
HPS 39901-01
FLEFF themes touch on many issues in international health. The role of cities in concentrating poor people and the role of panic and fear in relationship to public health will be discussed along with the role of cartography in addressing public health issues.
Stewart Auyash, associate professor
Required Viewing: The Best of the Fest 2007
GCOM 29206
FLEFF 2007 presents screenings of current, cutting-edge films from around the globe that address a variety of scientific, cultural, and political issues by exploring four interrelated themes: maps and memes, metropoli, panic attacks, and soundscaping. Students will attend five screenings, participate in question-answer sessions with the filmmaker(s), attend one meeting at the start of the festival, and prepare a short, written summary of each film and the specific issue(s) it addresses.
Stephen Tropiano, assistant professor, and director of the Ithaca College, James B. Pendleton, Center in Los Angeles
Storyscapes
GCOM 29206
It's no accident that our ears are on the sides of our heads: the world is a three-dimensional place. But stories need to move forward. Radio producer Jon Miller (homelands.org/producers/miller.html) leads students through an exploration of real-world storytelling using real-world sound. This minicourse will emphasize the decisions sonic storytellers make, from where to point the microphone to how to weave together disparate sonic elements to reconstruct reality. Jonathan Miller, radio journalist
We Have Issues: Exploring the Environmental Contexts behind the Films
ENVS 10300-01
This minicourse will explore the underlying environmental issues in selected films from a scientific, cultural, ethical, historical, and political perspective. Five films will be selected, and a team of faculty from environmentally related fields will provide students with background information on one of the specific issues that will be portrayed in the film.
Susan Allen-Gil, associate professor of biology; Susan Swensen associate professor of biology; Rene Borgella, assistant professor of biology; Lisa Paciulli, assistant professor of anthropology and Jason Hamilton, assistant professor of biology.
The Ithaca College library joins us a major collaborative partner. This year, the festival continues working with the library to create the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival series, works screened during the festival that will be added to our in house noncirculating library for teaching and research. The series will be searchable online via the library's website; films and videos will be identified as FLEFF programs in the catalogue. The Ithaca College librarians recognize the films have an enduring educational value across the curriculum to enhance teaching and research. With the FLEFF series, they seek to promote nonfeature films and international cinemas, redefining our preconceptions about the environment within a more international framework. Festival works selected for the library are noted as "FLEFF library series." These works will be available for faculty and students after the festival closes.
Ithaca College Bookstore
For festival goers looking to immerse more deeply in the issues, debates, and work encountered this year, the Ithaca College bookstore will feature books, CDs, and DVDs from our visiting artists, scholars, musicians, and writers, as well as books and CDs related to this year's topics. Festival tie-ins (T-shirts, etc.) are also available there. Check out the special Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival displays in the bookstore windows for ideas about what to buy.
Festival Fellows Program
The Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival Fellows program brings outstanding graduate students of color from all disciplines to campus during the festival to immerse them in screenings, lectures, workshops, master classes, and events within an engaging, interdisciplinary, think-tank environment. The festival fellows cohort engages with Ithaca College faculty and students from across campus, as well as with festival guests to explore linkages between sustainable development, different media platforms, globalization, race, ethnicity, gender, and music in order to stimulate new research and thinking in the areas of sustainability, interdisciplinary research, and international issues. Selection to the festival fellows program is highly competitive. The festival fellows program is an initiative of the Office of Equal Opportunity Compliance.
2007 Festival Fellows
Maria Demetrios Castilo, Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
Steve Choe, Film Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Antonio Cuyler, Art Education and Art Administration, Florida State University
Adriel Hilton, Higher Education, Morgan State University
Deveryle James, Comparative Literature, State University of New York at Buffalo
Thomas Leyba, Literacy and Social Justice, Arizona State University
Umar Moulta-Ali, Sociology, Ohio State University
Brenda Rascon, Biology, Arizona State University
Roona Ray, Medicine/Health, University of Massachusetts
Sachiko Tankei-Aminian, Intercultural Communications, Southern Illinois University
Ntiranyibagira Zenaide, Romance Language and Literature/French Studies, State University of New York at Buffalo
Special Festival Minicourses
Beyond the Maps
FREN 22000-01
This course will explore how five French and Francophone festival films challenge our sociological, philosophical, sexual, and esthetic maps. These movies not only show different cultures and environments with which we are more or less familiar, but also lead spectators to think about their own cultures and prejudices.
Patricia Gravatt, assistant professor
The Greening of Corporate Management
BINT19700-01
This course aims to create an awareness of the extent of environmental degradation and will examine different approaches to green corporate management. Concepts of environmental ethics will be introduced.
June Wu, instructor
Live Sound for Silent Film
MUNM 27100-01
This workshop course will focus on developing a sound design for the film, His People, to be screened on the closing night of the festival. Prerequisite: digital recording and editing, or advanced audio production, permission of instructor.
Peter Rothbart, professor
Poverty, Panic, and Population Health
HPS 39901-01
FLEFF themes touch on many issues in international health. The role of cities in concentrating poor people and the role of panic and fear in relationship to public health will be discussed along with the role of cartography in addressing public health issues.
Stewart Auyash, associate professor
Required Viewing: The Best of the Fest 2007
GCOM 29206
FLEFF 2007 presents screenings of current, cutting-edge films from around the globe that address a variety of scientific, cultural, and political issues by exploring four interrelated themes: maps and memes, metropoli, panic attacks, and soundscaping. Students will attend five screenings, participate in question-answer sessions with the filmmaker(s), attend one meeting at the start of the festival, and prepare a short, written summary of each film and the specific issue(s) it addresses.
Stephen Tropiano, assistant professor, and director of the Ithaca College, James B. Pendleton, Center in Los Angeles
Storyscapes
GCOM 29206
It's no accident that our ears are on the sides of our heads: the world is a three-dimensional place. But stories need to move forward. Radio producer Jon Miller (homelands.org/producers/miller.html) leads students through an exploration of real-world storytelling using real-world sound. This minicourse will emphasize the decisions sonic storytellers make, from where to point the microphone to how to weave together disparate sonic elements to reconstruct reality. Jonathan Miller, radio journalist
We Have Issues: Exploring the Environmental Contexts behind the Films
ENVS 10300-01
This minicourse will explore the underlying environmental issues in selected films from a scientific, cultural, ethical, historical, and political perspective. Five films will be selected, and a team of faculty from environmentally related fields will provide students with background information on one of the specific issues that will be portrayed in the film.
Susan Allen-Gil, associate professor of biology; Susan Swensen associate professor of biology; Rene Borgella, assistant professor of biology; Lisa Paciulli, assistant professor of anthropology and Jason Hamilton, assistant professor of biology.
