I just received news of this event. Anyone planning to attend?

CALL FOR APPLICANTS

MOVING IMAGE INSTITUTE IN FILM CRITICISM AND FEATURE WRITING

New York City’s Museum of the Moving Image—the nation’s only museum devoted to film, television, and digital media—announces its second annual Moving Image Institute in Film Criticism and Feature Writing, a five-day institute for film critics, culture editors, and arts writers. The program, which is a New York Times Company Foundation Journalism Institute, will be held from April 10 through 15, 2008. Its purpose is to offer an expanded appreciation of the art and history of film, and a global view of the complex and rapidly evolving nature of the film and entertainment industry.

With sessions at the Museum and at production facilities and offices in Manhattan, members of the Institute will learn about the art and business of film from leading directors, editors, composers, screenwriters, publicists, and executives. Fellows will also have the opportunity to attend a weekly meeting between editors and writers of The New York Times (A full schedule of the 2007 Institute, with photographs and information, is available at movingimage.us/nytinstitute).

Applicants must have at least one year professional experience in journalism. Twelve applicants will be selected. In order to encourage geographic diversity, hotel accommodations in midtown Manhattan will be provided for five nights for fellows living more than 50 miles from New York City. The Institute begins with an opening reception on the evening of Thursday, April 10. Participants will be responsible for their own travel to and from New York City.

To apply, please provide the following by mail or email:

· Your home address and email;
· Your employer’s name, address, and email;
· 350 words describing your experience as it relates to film criticism and/or arts writing;
· 350 words describing a likely/hoped for outcome of your participation in this institute;
· Two published writing samples. These pieces need not be about film;
· Two professional references (including name, title, address, email, and telephone).

Applications must be received no later than 5:00 p.m., February 17, 2008. Final candidates will be interviewed by phone, and successful applicants will be notified by February 26, 2008.

Mail to: Film Institute, Museum of the Moving Image, 35 Avenue at 36 Street, Astoria, NY 11106. Email to: institute@movingimage.us.

David Schwartz
Chief Curator
MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE
35 AVE AT 36 ST, ASTORIA, NY 11106
dschwartz@MOVINGIMAGE.US WWW.MOVINGIMAGE.US
TEL 718.784.4520x227 FAX 718.784.3417

It would certainly be cool to attend. It appears, though, that only the dozen selected fellows will be attending! This is not an event that's open to the public. I'm applying, though!

Thanks for posting this here. I remember hearing about last year's, and then it dropped off my radar.

Please join me in congratulating Doug. He'll be there.

Wow! That's really cool.

Karina Longworth, former editor of Cinematical and current blogger at Spout, is also going.

Karina Longworth on the A.O. Scott session ("Maybe I knew that was the answer all along: there’s royalty and there’s rabble. This is the natural order of things. But hearing it out loud was disheartening, maybe because it’s hard for me to wrap my head around the power dynamic expressed in such absolute terms").