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
editThe 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
editIn 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 R. Zimmermann[10] and professor of politics Thomas Shevory[11] at Ithaca College.
References
edit- ^ "Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) Offers Dead People a Chance to Chat about 'Open Spaces'". NewswISE. December 9, 2009. Retrieved March 5, 2011.
- ^ Laluk, Kathy (March 27, 2008). "FLEFF enters 11th year". The Ithacan. Archived from the original on April 1, 2008. Retrieved March 5, 2011.
- ^ "New scores for old films highlight Finger Lakes Environmental fest". The Ithaca Journal. Ithaca, N.Y. March 31, 2007. p. B.2. Archived from the original on November 5, 2012. Retrieved July 6, 2017.
- ^ "Ithaca Forward: Activities to do here now that spring has come". The Ithaca Journal. Ithaca, N.Y. March 29, 2007. p. C.1. Archived from the original on November 5, 2012. Retrieved March 5, 2011.
- ^ Keith Davis (March 13, 2012). "Ithaca College's Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival Turns Fifteen". Ithaca College: Media relations, News releases. Ithaca College. Retrieved May 16, 2012.
- ^ "SMITH III Arctic Visiting Speaker Tours". arcus.org. ARCUS. Retrieved May 18, 2012.
- ^ Meagan McGinnes (March 29, 2012). "Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival under way at Ithaca College and Cinemapolis". 14850 Magazine. Public Communications, Inc. Archived from the original (News article) on March 4, 2016. Retrieved May 18, 2012.
- ^ "United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (January 2005 – December 2014)". UNESCO. Retrieved May 16, 2012.
- ^ "Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival". National Alliance for Media Art + Culture. Archived from the original on May 12, 2012. Retrieved May 18, 2012.
- ^ Sarah Lockwood (March 22, 2012). "Q & A: Philip Wilde, Internship Coordinator" (Interview). FLEFF Intern Voices. Ithaca College. Retrieved May 16, 2012.
- ^ Cat Nuwer (March 24, 2012). "A Microtopia Called FLEFF" (Article). Buzzsaw Magazine. Retrieved May 16, 2012.