The Summitt is collaborating with The Flaherty to host one of the few global gatherings for its 70th Annual Film Seminar!! This year's film program is ONWARD!!
This is an opportunity to join some particularly curated screenings and discussions for some truly rare finds in cinema!! We've agreed to not disclose any specific information about the particular films and filmmakers until they are released throughout the seminar's opening weekend, but we can say that there are some OUTSTANDING and truly STRIKING films that are sure to not only catch your attention but will certainly add to your archive of cinema experience and stimulate some intriguing conversations! If you enjoy experimental, documentary and conceptual films that serve to spark a critical lens, these film screening sessions are for you! Even if you're not a 'film expert' and you have an interest or curiosity about film and the ideas that pertain to 'ONWARD', Join Us!! :)
Dates & Times:
Thursday, June 26; 6-9pm - Session I
Thursday, July 3; 6-9pm - Session II
PLEASE RSVP:
If you are interested in joining us for any of the upcoming programming, please click the link and submit The Flaherty’s Local Gathering Sign-Up Form. Be sure to select the location ‘Humboldt, CA’. When your submission is recorded, we will follow up with final meeting dates and times as well as the confirmed screening selections.
You can read more about the ONWARD program here.
The screenings will be followed by a discussion. We expect between 15-20+ guests, and invite you to bring additional guests if you are able to contribute to the gathering. We ask that you please forward them the sign-up form and have them register. PLEASE NOTE: This venue is 21 and over; we do not serve food but you're welcome to bring your own!
Notes from the current curators of the 70th Flaherty Film Seminar:
Onward! is a call to move through obstacles with collective action. Onward! is the call of the artist, the activist, the doula, the hopeful, the grieving - the people in the midst of painful transition. Onward! is animated both by the urgency of change, and the patience to know that liberation must come, will come. Onward! embraces the battlefield as the terrain of greater possibility. Freedom is an ongoing state of insistence that is carried forward in each act of making, questioning, resisting, remembering. Onward! is to stay the course and trust in the process of change.
Movement is not solitary. Onward! calls for collectivity, for curiosity, for entanglement, for hope, for solidarity across generations. Onward! is propelled by calls from the past, which too believed in the potency of the moment, and of all moments yet to come. Onward! celebrates coexisting and futurities.