Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival

Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) is an annual multi-arts, interdisciplinary, cross media festival in Ithaca, New York, dedicated to showcasing global media projects focusing on issues pertaining to sustainability.[1][2][3][4]

History

The Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival was launched in 1997 as an outreach project from the Center for the Environment at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.[5] 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.[6]

Programming

In recent years, FLEFF moved toward incorporating new media[7] as yet another platform to interrogate 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.[8] This initiative has redefined and expanded environmental issues to explore the international interconnections between war, air, disease, the land, health, water, genocide, food, education, technology, cultural heritage, and diversity.[9] Through film, video, new media, installation, performance, panels, and presentations, the festival engages vigorous debate across media and disciplines. It hosts a large number of national and transnational artists every year for a week 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.

As of March 2012, FLEFF was co-directed by professor of cinema, photography, and media arts Patricia Zimmerman[10] and professor of politics Thomas Shevory[11] at Ithaca College.

References

  1. ↑ "Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) Offers Dead People a Chance to Chat about ‘Open Spaces’". NewswISE. December 9, 2009. Retrieved March 5, 2011.
  2. ↑ Laluk, Kathy (March 27, 2008). "FLEFF enters 11th year". The Ithacan. Archived from the original on 2008-04-01. Retrieved March 5, 2011.
  3. ↑ "New scores for old films highlight Finger Lakes Environmental fest". The Ithaca Journal (Ithaca, N.Y.). March 31, 2007. p. B.2.
  4. ↑ "Ithaca Forward: Activities to do here now that spring has come". The Ithaca Journal (Ithaca, N.Y.). March 29, 2007. p. C.1. Retrieved March 5, 2011.
  5. ↑ Keith Davis (13 March 2012). "Ithaca College's Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival Turns Fifteen". Ithaca College: Media relations, News releases. Ithaca College. Retrieved 16 May 2012.
  6. ↑ "SMITH III Arctic Visiting Speaker Tours". ARCUS. http://www.arcus.org. Retrieved 18 May 2012. External link in |publisher= (help)
  7. ↑ Meagan McGinnes (29 March 2012). "Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival under way at Ithaca College and Cinemapolis" (News article). 14850 Magazine. Public Communications, Inc. Retrieved 18 May 2012.
  8. ↑ "United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (January 2005 – December 2014)". UNESCO. UNESCO. Retrieved 16 May 2012.
  9. ↑ "Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival". National Alliance for Media Art + Culture. National Alliance for Media Art + Culture. Retrieved 18 May 2012.
  10. ↑ Sarah Lockwood (22 March 2012). "Q & A: Philip Wilde, Internship Coordinator" (Interview). FLEFF Intern Voices. Ithaca College. Retrieved 16 May 2012.
  11. ↑ Cat Nuwer (24 March 2012). "A Microtopia Called FLEFF" (Article). Buzzsaw Magazine. Buzzsaw Magazine. Retrieved 16 May 2012.

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