The 25th Anniversary Edition of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival runs for three weeks, from March 21-April 10. This year’s festival theme is ENTANGLEMENTS. Cinemapolis will host 25 films on its virtual cinema platform and three in-person special...
Events
Explore Journalism and Environment: Spring Events Calendar
Join us for a variety of events in the coming months featuring academics, journalists, and filmmakers in critical discussions spanning media and environment. The Park Center for Independent Media will co-sponsor several discussions with the Finger Lakes Environmental...
Izzy Award Nominations Deadline Extended to Feb 9
The judges of the Izzy Award have extended the deadline for nominations until February 9 at midnight EST. The award celebrates its 14th year in 2022, and PCIM will again grant this honor — named after legendary journalist I. F. “Izzy” Stone — for outstanding...
10/28 Book Talk: “Build Bridges, Not Walls: A Journey to a World Without Borders”
Award winning journalist and author Todd Miller will speak about his new book where he asks the question: “Is it possible to create a borderless world?” In a series of anecdotes, he relates his encounters with U.S. Border Patrol agents, deportees, migrants,...
Save the Dates: October Events Calendar
Thursday, October 7, at 5:30 p.m. Lali Khalid Artist Book Launch: “Home. In my heart, beating far away” (Sponsored by the Handwerker Gallery) Mehreen (Lali) Khalid came to the United States from Pakistan in 2007 as a Fulbright Scholar and attended Pratt Institute, NY...
Roundtable on Raoul Peck’s ‘Exterminate All the Brutes’
The roundtable will be in English and Spanish, with translation. Monday October 4 10 a.m. (Los Angeles) 11 a.m. (Denver) 1 p.m. (New York/Toronto) 2...
Who Owns the Story? Documentary in Africa
Join a 90-minute roundtable discussion with filmmakers, producers, researchers, and cultural activists probing the aesthetics, economics, politics, problems, and solutions of documentary across the African continent. Monday September 27 9...
Oct 26: Environmental Justice Scholar Dr. Prakash Kashwan
Dr. Prakash Kashwan and Dr. Jake Brenner (Environmental Studies and Sciences) will be in conversation discussing climate justice on Tuesday, October 26, at 6 p.m. via Zoom. The session will be in meeting rather than webinar format to facilitate interaction with...
Flash Flaherty Book Launch with Coeditor Patricia Zimmermann
On April 29 the Park Center for Independent Media and The Flaherty hosted the international launch of Scott MacDonald and Patricia R. Zimmermann’s new book Flash Flaherty: Tales From A Film Seminar (Indiana, 2021). Attended by...
A Conversation with Boots Riley: “Democracy at Work!” 04/15
The Park Center for Independent Media (PCIM) in collaboration with Cornell University's Industry Labor Relations School presents: A Conversation with Boots Riley: “Democracy at Work!” Boots Riley is a musician, labor activist and director of the critically acclaimed...