This article talks about Paul Arthur's visit to the 50th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar which is an incredibly diverse gathering of film makers, museum programmers, writers, students, and distributors celebrating a half century of achievement in independent cinema with an array of new and classic work. The Seminar has served as a breeding ground for what is new and challenging on the nonfiction scene and has attemped to reclaim buried histories of black and Latino nonfiction-makers.