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Sunday, February 7, 2016
This year’s Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival theme is Landscapes. FLEFF defines Landscapes as “Open and closed spaces. Natural and artificial. Reverence and nostalgia. Geographies and extractions. Material and immaterial. Built and imagined.”
Landscapes can...
Sunday, January 31, 2016
Blog Posting by Sophia Feuer, Cinema and Photography, ’18, FLEFF Intern, Westchester, New York.
FLEFF-goers and film lovers alike,
My name is Sophia Feuer and I am a sophomore at Ithaca college. I am currently majoring in Cinema and Photography with a concentration in Cinema Production and a minor in Art.
I came to...
Monday, February 16, 2015
Blog posting by Hannah Basciano, Documentary Film Studies, ’17, FLEFF Blogger, Lancaster, PA
Four.
Geopolitical based, business-oriented, aesthetically grounded, and thematic.
The four kinds of film...
Sunday, February 8, 2015
Blog Posting by Melani Lopez, Film, Photography, and Visual Arts '17, FLEFF Blogger, Houston, TX
Walking down the hallway to my first interview, steps echoing dully on the carpeted floor, I felt a sense of intimidation. The professor I was to talk to is highly educated in many different areas with many degrees. Who was I, some sophomore kid, to walk into this...
Friday, February 21, 2014
Sundance. Venice. Cannes. Berlin. Tribeca. Austin. Hot Docs. Ann Arbor.
Well-known film festivals from around the big wide world have the glamour of foreign lands and international fame. However, for college student, affording trips and tickets to these fabulous events can be difficult, to say the least.
Which brings me to FLEFF – an intellectually engaging, thought...
Sunday, January 26, 2014
Blog posting written by Timna Mayer, Violin Performance,'15, FLEFF blogger, Salzburg, Austria
My name is Timna Mayer. Yes, it’s Tim-na (people usually have trouble understanding my name so I’m just making sure). Anyway, I’m Timna and I come from Salzburg, Austria. Austria is the tiny country right next to...
Friday, April 5, 2013
Blog posting by Kimberly Capehart, Documentary Studies and Production '16, FLEFF Intern, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
I'm sitting in at what is arguably the most exciting FLEFF event: FLEFF Lab Friday!
Directors, producers, distributors, and scholars have been sitting in Park 220 all day long, speaking with students and amongst themselves about a wide variety of...
Friday, April 5, 2013
Blog posting written by Erica Moriarty, Documentary Studies and Production '16, FLEFF Intern, Houston, Texas
Hello FLEFFers! Can't make it to the FLEFF Lab in Park 220? No problem! I'm here live blogging to bring you the highlights!
And due to a last minute change, filmmaker Bo Wang, the first Chinese filmmaker...
Friday, April 5, 2013
Blog posting written by Shawn Steiner, Film, Photography, and Visual Arts '13, FLEFF Intern, Elkridge, MD
And once again we are back in Park 220 for FLEFF Lab Friday. Kelly Matheson from WITNESS is here and Dr. Patricia Zimmermann is moderating this hour. Come on by!
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Kelly begins with the well-known video of Rodney...
Monday, April 1, 2013
Blog posting written by Shawn Steiner, Film, Photography, and Visual Arts '13, FLEFF Blogger, Elkridge, MD
Welcome to FLEFF's opening day and the first of many live blogs of the week.
We have concluded our discussion, but at 10:00AM-10:50AM in Park 220 Ulises Mejias will lead a discussion about Augmented Reality...
Monday, March 18, 2013
Blog post written by Kristen Tomkowid, Journalism '15, FLEFF Intern, Poughkeepsie, New York
Nicholas DiEugenio is an assistant professor in the IC School of Music with specialties in violin and chamber music. At this year's festival, Carmina Burana will be performed by local musicians. DiEugenio talked about his involvement with this performance.
Kristen...
Monday, February 25, 2013
Blog post written by Kristen Tomkowid, Journalism '15, FLEFF Blogger, Poughkeepsie, New York.
A few days ago, I had the privilege of talking with Ithaca College Associate TVR Professor and film maker John Scott. We talked about his involvement in FLEFF, both past and present.
Some background on John:...
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Blog posting written by Chloe Wilson, Television-Radio ’14, FLEFF Intern, Ashland, Massachusetts.
Getting excited for the FLEFF March 3rd Kickoff Screening? I know I am! I'm even more excited...
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Blog posting written by Shawn Steiner, Film, Photography, and Visual Arts ’13, FLEFF Intern, Elkridge, MD
I’m not the only person coming back to FLEFF this year!
Evan Meaney is a professor of transmedia design at the University of Tennessee. And, he is both an Ithaca College graduate and FLEFF alum. He will be returning this...
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Blog posting written by Amber Thibault, Cinema and Photography '15, FLEFF Intern, Lewiston, Maine
What does the theme of mobilities mean to me?
That was the question that presented itself. As I was thinking about this year's theme, I started to think about FLEFF and...
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Blog posting written by Hana Raskin, Communication Management & Design '12, FLEFF intern, New York City
Tom Torello is a graduate of Ithaca College, where he majored in Television and Radio with a concentration in Advertising and Public Relations. He has worked in New York City as a media planner at a big agency, for clients like Proctor & Gamble and Richardson...
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Carlos Gutiérrez met his business partner Monika Wagenberg back in 1997 when they were both students in the Cinema Studies program at NYU. At the time, Latin American cinema was not very prevalent in the United States. Carlos and Monika wanted to find a way to "promote cinema from the region, locally," and thus, Cinema...
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Blog post written by Sarah Lockwood, Cinema & Photography '15, FLEFF Intern, Blairstown, NJ
As a FLEFF Intern for the 2012 season, I have had the pleasure of attending class weekly with two brilliant and inspiring internship coordinators - one of whom is Philip Wilde. Phil was kind enough to spend an extra ten minutes of his evening discussing his background in film, his...
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Blog posting written by Hana Raskin, Communication Management and Design ’12, FLEFF Intern, New York City
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Blog posting written by Shea Lynch, Documentary Studies '14, FLEFF Intern, Glens Falls, New York
I hope everyone is having a great week!
The FLEFF Intern team is busy preparing for FLEFF Week coming up April 10. We are all really excited. I hope everyone bought their
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Blog post written by Kelsey Green, Documentary Studies and Production, '13, FLEFF intern, Buffalo, New York
I grew up an hour outside of Buffalo, NY, but currently, I reside in Ithaca, New York, where I am a sophomore enrolled in Documentary Studies and Production at Ithaca College.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
I'm Gena (pronounced like "Jenna") Mangiaratti, I'm a sophomore Journalism major with a minor in Anthropology. I'm from right outside of Springfield, Massachusetts.
In a little more than a year and a half at Ithaca, I feel like I have learned more about the world outside of my surroundings than in all the time...
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Blog posting written by Lindsay Harrop, Cinema & Photography '13, FLEFF Intern, McMinnville, Oregon