Patricia Zimmermann, Charles A. Dana Professor of Screen Studies and Director of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, was invited to present the festival’s pandemic innovations at the MIDBO Documentary Film Festival in Bogota, Colombia in a special international Zoom event on Wednesday, October 27.
Zimmermann discussed the innovations and massive changes of the 2021 festival as it migrated to 100% virtual and intensified its interdisciplinary, international, and multi-platformed approach to considering a wider, more expansive view of environmental issues. She also explained the role of the festival to showcase Ithaca College faculty research for a wider audience and to move research beyond specialized venues into a more accessible public sphere.
The roundtable was supported by the US Embassy in Bogota, Colombia.
This international roundtable was focused on exploring the ethical obligations of universities in times of global crisis to contribute to opening up public space for discussion and debate about important unresolved civil society issues.
Moderated by Dr. Juana Schlenker Monsalve from the National University of Columbia at Bogota, the roundtable also featured Dr. Carlos Velandia from the National University of Columbia, and Dr. Mariana Gandara of UNAM University in Mexico.
The International Documentary Exhibition of Bogotá (MIDBO) is organized by the Colombian Corporation of Documentalists ALADOS. It specializes in the cinema of the real, and is one of the most prominent venues in Latin America for showcasing documentary films and academic scholarship on nonfiction. Over the last 23 years has served as a key node for exhibition, dialogue, and thought exploring documentary and nonfiction in Colombia and Latin America.
