The Flaherty Film Seminar, the USC Center for Ethnographic Media Arts (CEMA), USC School of Cinematic Arts, and Los Angeles Filmforum present: The 2025 Los Angeles Flaherty Pod. 
 

Entering its 70th year, the Flaherty Film Seminar is revered as one of the most significant convenings around non-fiction cinema. Each year filmmakers, scholars, students, curators, critics, archivists, and cinephiles gather for an immersive, week-long program of film screenings, in-depth discussions, artist talks, installations, and/or performances around a theme.

This summer, Flaherty has expanded from its single location seminar, offering eight global venues (pods). The Los Angeles pod is Flaherty's sole location on the west coast. Held in collaboration with Los Angeles Filmforum, Flaherty LA opens the seminar experience to the wider public. Curated by CEMA’s Stephanie Spray and SCA’s Michael Renov (Flaherty curator, 2005), with special guests James Benning, Rebecca Baron, and more.

The program will be an interplay in time across three generations of experimental documentary, with works fresh to LA (and the wider world). The particular films and guests will be revealed at the show. On Sunday, June 29th, Flaherty LA will celebrate the peak of the seminar with a site-specific program available only here in Los Angeles.