ONWARD! 70th edition of the Flaherty Film Seminar

The annual Flaherty summer seminar is revered as one of the most significant convenings around non-fiction cinema in the world. Curated collaboratively by Janaína Oliveira, Carlos A. Gutiérrez, and Richard Herskowitz, this year's program poses the questions: In moments of great upheaval, can cinema provide fuel for a radical paradigm shift? What cultural momentum does the cinema offer us today? The very acts of making and watching non-fiction films are rooted deep in legacies of solidarity and resistance. How does this moment call on us to nourish those legacies and forge our own? We encourage you to read more about the theme here. We are grateful to explore these questions and ideas with you, and we can’t wait to hear how they resonate with our community in Miami-Dade.

The Flaherty upholds a tradition of non-preconception. To this end, no one knows what they will be watching until the lights go down. Film notes and trigger warnings will be made available to participants before each screening begins. In the Socratic tradition of the Flaherty seminar, the program will be followed by discussion, facilitated by artist and educator Fereshteh Toosi.