The 70th Flaherty Film Seminar, Onward!, will take place from June 26–29 in New York City (in-person) and around the world (online, and in pods and gatherings).
Attending the seminar will be three LEF New England Flaherty Fellows: Morgan Hulquist, Matteo Moretti, and Sasha Tycko. (Read more about the fellows below). Since 2009, LEF has partnered with the Flaherty to support the participation of New England-based nonfiction filmmakers at the Flaherty Film Seminar each year.
The Flaherty fellowship program runs concurrently alongside the Flaherty Seminar while offering additional programming – workshops, screenings, discussions, artist lunches, and artist talks – designed to provide more in-depth engagement with the Seminar program.
Morgan Hulquist is an emerging documentary filmmaker based in Portland, Maine whose work explores latent place-based stories. She is currently directing and producing INVADERS, a lyrical portrait of citizen scientists who spend their free time scouring Maine’s coastline for marine invasive species, now in production.
From 2022 to 2025, Morgan was Associate Producer at Multitude Films, the independent production company dedicated to transformative culture change through nonfiction storytelling, where she participated in the company’s Producer Apprenticeship program — dedicated to mentoring the next generation of documentary producers. Her credits include Life After(Sundance 2025/Independent Lens), Power (Sundance 2024/Netflix), Queer Futures (CPH: DOX 2023/Criterion Channel), How We Get Free (SFFILM 2023/Max) and Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power (Tribeca 2022/Peacock), as well as Kristine Stolakis’s forthcoming animated documentary alive!, now in post-production. She worked in communications at Chicken & Egg Films, a nonprofit supporting women and gender-expansive documentary filmmakers, 2017–2021 and is also a freelance archival producer and documentary communications specialist.
Originally from San Diego, Morgan is a member of the Maine Palestine Film Collective and an organizer of the Maine Palestine Film Festival.
Matteo Moretti is a Greek-Italian-American filmmaker and cinematographer specializing in documentary and narrative work that explores the intersection of culture, environment, and people. He’s drawn to stories that preserve living traditions, often capturing the quiet beauty and complexity of people and places worldwide.
Sasha Tycko is an anthropologist, photographer, and filmmaker and a PhD candidate at Emory University. Her current work focuses on the Atlanta forest at the center of the conflict over “Cop City,” where she integrates ethnographic research and a visual art practice to explore how the contested landscape—once the site of a city prison farm and antebellum plantation—motivates new articulations of history, nature, and ethics. Through this work, she has produced two films, Dwelling: A Measure of Life in the Atlanta Forest (2023, 40 min.) and Atlanta Forest Garden: Four Days of Work (co-produced with Marion Lary, 2023, 12 min.) and a photography exhibition, Ways of the Atlanta Forest (2025, Institute 193). Her writing and photographs have been published in n+1, Jewish Currents, Trans Studies Quarterly, Mergoat Magazine, and elsewhere. Her essay “Not One Tree” (co-authored with Grace Glass, 2023, n+1) was awarded the Krause Essay Prize. She received her BA at the University of Chicago.
