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Center for Documentary Arts and Research - 2024 Flaherty Film Seminar Fellowships

Images of the 2023 Queer World-Mending Seminar Courtesy of The Flaherty 


The Center for Documentary Arts Research (Film & Digital Media/Arts Division) is building a fund to support our graduate students' participation in the annual Flaherty Film Seminar. For seventy years, the Flaherty Seminar has been the premiere gathering of filmmakers, artists, curators, and scholars. It has been the center of the most energizing dialogue around documentary film and media, a vital and vibrant summer camp for intergenerational documentary exploration. And it is more than that: a laboratory, a raucous and contentious public sphere, a strict summer camp with rules and rigid schedules, a living archive of media arts activism, and a place for intergenerational communing. 


For Giving Day 2023, we invite you to help us establish a new tradition as a visible and vital cohort of practitioner attendees. Contributions to the UCSC Center for Documentary Arts and Research Flaherty Fellowship will enable UCSC's presence and participation online or in partial support of in-person attendance. These critical fellowships can go to either doctoral students or Social Documentation MFA students, and we can make every effort to earmark the funds accordingly. Our students' visibility at this one-of-a-kind annual gathering will undoubtedly transform their developing engagement with film distributors, critics, and filmmakers. Your contributions on this Giving Day support our graduate students and will go towards their participation in the 69th Flaherty Film Seminar To Commune in 2024, programmed by May Adadol Ingawanij and Julian Ross.


We are so pleased that you will show your support, however great or small, for our graduate students. It will have an impact, as is evident from these testimonials:


“The conversations generated, the films I saw that week, along with some of the friendships I made for the in-person Flaherty I attended (Future Remains) was an invaluable experience [...] I finally felt like at Flaherty, I had found a space of scholars and filmmakers who were interrogating similar formal considerations with a rigorous engagement with the political, social, and emotional aspects of making non-fiction filmmaking that was really helpful for me to be a part of.”  – Amy Reid, Film & Digital Media Ph.D. Candidate


“Flaherty allowed me to connect and explore works with other creators/curators/audiences beyond the institution and also perceive my work's possible journeys towards non-linear, outspoken territories. Flaherty showed me that any film is possible and that there are audiences that will bravely explore those works." – Marilia Kaisar, Film & Digital Media Ph.D. Candidate


“Attending the 2022 Flaherty Seminar greatly enriched my research, providing a deeper understanding of experimental film practices and discourses. Rigorous dialogue with filmmakers, curators, and scholars gave me insight into the infrastructure underpinning experimental film, clarifying my trajectory as a scholar-practitioner. My interactions with film curators and programmers, who are attuned to current production trends, proved particularly valuable, introducing me to several works and filmmakers now integral to my dissertation project.” – Johannes Kuzmich, Film & Digital Media Doctoral Student


Giving Day Projects
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Projects with Matches
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Athletics and Recreation
Student Organizations
Campus-wide Programs
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging
Success!
Social Butterfly
Congratulations to Grupo Folklórico Los Mejicas de UCSC on engaging their community and rallying support for their project!
Completed
Leaderboard
Night Owl
The project with the most individual donors between 12 midnight and 1 am will receive $1,000. 2nd place will receive $500. Generously sponsored by an anonymous donor.
Rank Prize Department Donors
1 $1,000 Formula Slug 36
2 $500 Pilipino Cultural Celebration 22
3 Tech4Good Student Programs 17
4 Grupo Folklórico Los Mejicas de UCSC 17
5 KZSC Radio 10
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Morning Mayhem
The project with the most individual donors between 10 and 11 am will receive $1,000. 2nd place will receive $500.
Rank Prize Department Donors
1 $1,000 Cloud 9 A Cappella 62
2 $500 Women's Lacrosse Team 32
3 Autoslug 32
4 UCSC Slug Rugby 22
5 UCSC Fencing Club 22
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Happy Hour
The project teams with the most donors between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. will take home extra challenge funds! $1,000 for first place and $500 for second place. Generously sponsored by Professor of Theater Arts Patty Gallagher.
Rank Prize Department Donors
1 $1,000 Rocket Team at UCSC 51
2 $500 UCSC Surf Club 34
3 STEM Diversity - Plant the Seed for Big Dreamers 21
4 SOL Ultimate Frisbee 18
5 Undergrads Supporting System-Impacted Filmmakers 16
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Slug Surprise
The project with the most individual donors between 10 and 11 p.m. will receive $1,500, 2nd place will receive $750 and 3rd will receive $500. Generously sponsored by an anonymous donor.
Rank Prize Department Donors
1 $1,500 Formula Slug 47
2 $750 STEM Diversity - Plant the Seed for Big Dreamers 42
3 $500 UCSC Slug Rugby 32
4 Rocket Team at UCSC 32
5 UCSC Fencing Club 23
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Indie 100
The project with the most individual donors giving $100 or more will receive $1,000. Second place will receive $500. Generously sponsored by an anonymous donor.
Rank Prize Department Donors
1 $1,000 UCSC Slug Rugby 129
2 $500 STEM Diversity - Plant the Seed for Big Dreamers 65
3 Alumni Association Scholarship Fund 62
4 UC Santa Cruz NCAA Cross Country and Track & Field 47
5 Okinawa Memories Initiative (OMI) 43
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New Recruit
*Limited to projects who have not participated before* The project with the most individual donors on Giving Day will receive $2,500, 2nd place will receive $1,000 and 3rd place will receive $500. Generously sponsored by an anonymous donor.
Rank Prize Department Donors
1 $2,500 Cloud 9 A Cappella 155
2 $1,000 Autoslug 152
3 $500 VSA at UCSC 97
4 Women's Lacrosse Team 67
5 AIRC supporting Native students' wellness! 34
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Success!
Best in Show
Congratulations to CENTER FOR AGROECOLOGY: UCSC FARM for their engaging and fun video!
Completed
Leaderboard
Early Riser
The project with the most individual donors between 7 and 8 am will receive $1,000. 2nd place will receive $500. Generously sponsored by an anonymous donor.
Rank Prize Department Donors
1 $1,000 Okinawa Memories Initiative (OMI) 49
2 $500 UCSC Slug Rugby 24
3 Tech4Good Student Programs 23
4 SOL Ultimate Frisbee 12
5 Formula Slug 11
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Mid-day Motivator
The project with the most individual donors between 12 noon and 2 pm will receive $2,500, second place will receive $1,000 and third place will receive $500. Third place generously sponsored by UC Santa Cruz Foundation Trustees Panda Kroll and Janet Buck.
Rank Prize Department Donors
1 $2,500 Formula Slug 155
2 $1,000 STEM Diversity - Plant the Seed for Big Dreamers 146
3 $500 UCSC Slug Rugby 99
4 Undergrads Supporting System-Impacted Filmmakers 64
5 Okinawa Memories Initiative (OMI) 49
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Mad Dash
The project with the most individual donors between 6 and 8 pm will receive $2,500, second place will receive $1,000 and third place will receive $500. Generously sponsored by an anonymous donor.
Rank Prize Department Donors
1 $2,500 Rocket Team at UCSC 213
2 $1,000 STEM Diversity - Plant the Seed for Big Dreamers 203
3 $500 Pilipino Cultural Celebration 97
4 City on a Hill Press 69
5 UCSC Slug Rugby 54
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Final Frenzy
The project with the most individual donors on Giving Day (12am-12am) will receive $10,000, second place will receive $5,000 and third place will receive $2,000. First place award generously sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Foundation Board Opportunity Fund.
Rank Prize Department Donors
1 $10,000 STEM Diversity - Plant the Seed for Big Dreamers 462
2 $5,000 UCSC Slug Rugby 405
3 $2,000 Formula Slug 300
4 Rocket Team at UCSC 289
5 Undergrads Supporting System-Impacted Filmmakers 201
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Indie 500
The project with the most individual donors giving $500 or more will receive $2,500. 2nd place will receive $1,000.
Rank Prize Department Donors
1 $2,500 UCSC Slug Rugby 16
2 $1,000 Okinawa Memories Initiative (OMI) 15
3 Alumni Association Scholarship Fund 13
4 CalTeach Landesman Fund for Math/Science Teachers 13
5 Academic Excellence (ACE) Program 12
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