Group Category: Film

Mohammad Ehsani is an Iranian filmmaker. His films have been screened at many domestic and foreign festivals and have won multiple awards. His…

Philadelphia Asian American Film & Filmmakers was founded in 2008 by a passionate group of Asian Americans who felt a need for a…

The Pendar International Film Festival is an Iranian festival that seeks to display the thoughts and visions that aesthetically and socially make the…

The Peloponnisos International Documentary Festival is a documentary film festival in Kalamata, Greece. The festival emphasizes international documentaries and also includes an educational…

Jerusalem International Film Festival is a result of Gaza’s need for an international film festival that is open to the world. Gaza Strip is suffering from academic poverty—even the filmmakers in Gaza are not particularly professional in cinematic films, except in very special cases for some of the directors whose talents were widely known. The vast majority of producers require a lot to produce movies that are fun, cinematic, and about the reality of Palestinian life.

Founded in 2011, the Slum Film Festival is a community-based annual film festival in Nairobi, Kenya, that features stories from, by, and about people living in urban slums. It is both a celebration of the creativity of filmmakers living and working in slums and an opportunity to promote a diverse range of films within communities with limited or no access to cinema through a week of outdoor screenings.

A 2019 grant from the Cultures of Resistance Network helped support some of the expenses for the 9th Slum Film Festival in August 2019.

Bite-Sized Solutions is a film by Richard McCarthy that investigates if school-supported agriculture can be a Marshall Plan for rural America. The film synopsis is below:

Magnum Foundation expands creativity and diversity in documentary photography, activating new audiences and ideas through the innovative use of images. Through grant-making, mentoring, and creative collaborations, the foundation partners with socially engaged image-makers experimenting with new models for storytelling.

Nomads: Human Rights, Cultural Roots, and Media is a Madrid-based NGO that supports Sahrawi-led cultural, media, and human rights projects in the refugee camps in Algeria and in occupied Western Sahara. Its goal is to strengthen the struggle for justice, peace, human rights, and self-determination of the indigenous population of Western Sahara by supporting local capacity-building.

The Hargeysa Cultural Centre (HCC) was created by the Redsea Cultural Foundation (RCF) in Somaliland as a way to extend the activities of RCF’s annual literature festival throughout the year. The aim of the cultural centre is to support the revival and development of Somali culture, strengthen the participation of youth and women in cultural activities, and promote reconciliation, good citizenship, tolerance, and regional integration. HCC runs a cultural program that includes book launches, film showings, theatre performances, and a series of public talks and debates.