Charles Fairbanks Awarded Flaherty Seminar Fellowship

Charles Fairbanks (MFA 2010) has been awarded a fellowship to the Flaherty Seminar: a week-long intensive seminar focused on documentary film. 

For over fifty years the Flaherty Seminar has been firmly established as a one-of-a-kind institution that seeks to encourage filmmakers and other artists to explore the potential of the moving image. The films of such directors as Robert Drew, Louis Malle, the Maysles brothers, Mira Nair, Satyajit Ray, and Robert M. Young were shown at the Seminar before they were known generally in the American film community. New cinematic techniques and approaches first presented and debated at the Seminar have routinely made their way into mainstream American film.

Charles will also soon present his work at the Tepoztlàn Institute for Transnational History of the Americas, in Tepoztlàn, Morelos, Mexico. Additionally, Charles’ films have shown or will soon show at the Athens International Film & Video Festival, Montréal Underground Film Festival, Media City Film Festival, Videopolis (Baltimore), Flagstaff Film Festival, Nevada City Film Festival, Omaha’s Film Streams, DocsDF, and the International Short Film Fest Hamburg.