New course aims to educate on film festival history
A new course being offered to Ithaca College students in Spring 2023 dives into the history of film festivals and the operations of the local Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF).
A new course being offered to Ithaca College students in Spring 2023 dives into the history of film festivals and the operations of the local Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF).
Experts discussed the challenges of covering the Russia-Ukraine war in independent and mainstream media in a round table discussion held Sept. 7.
FLEFF hosted a launch for “The Social Media Debate” a book that aims to show the debates surrounding the impacts of social media on society.
The Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, primarily sponsored by Ithaca College, will return for its 25th year in March.
Ithaca College hosted the opening keynote event April 1 for the 2019 FLEFF on how to use technology to document abuses against immigrant communities.
Sheila Vakharia, assistant professor from Long Island University Brooklyn, discussed the complexities of the opioid crisis April 9 as part of the opening ceremonies for the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, a yearly event hosted by the Ithaca community.
FLEFF will commence with a lecture by Sheila Vakharia, assistant professor in the Department of Social Work at Long Island University–Brooklyn.
Opinion Editor Meaghan McElroy spoke with Zimmermann to discuss her work in Buenos Aires, her book on the Flaherty seminars and her views on independent media as a whole.
“What matters is having clarity that democratic communication can be made no matter what technology you have,” Zimmermann said.
Musicians from around the nation will bring their worldly musical styles together for Ithaca College’s first World Music Festival on Oct. 23.
She and her husband, Roy H. Park — after whom the Roy H. Park School of Communications was named in 1989 — founded the Park Foundation in 1966, which has funded many projects at the college, in the community and across the nation.
The 19th annual Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival will feature films produced from around the world on topics like women’s health clinics, hydraulic fracturing, climbing Mount Everest and the Indian-Pakistani partition.