This year in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are working with our partners to ensure a safe experience for our guests. Our partnering venues are all requiring the use of face masks and are practicing social distancing guidelines set forth by the CDC.

We are doubling down on our values of access, equity, inclusivity, and independence by reimagining the Global Peace Film Festival during these extraordinary times. In addition to limited public screenings, we have expanded the Festival by providing access to those unable or unwilling to travel by offering a series of “Stay-At-Home Docs” and digital Q & A Sessions that can be enjoyed in the comfort of your own home. While the COVID-19 pandemic has been a challenge, we’ve also seen it as an opportunity for creative and expansive thinking.

The Global Peace Film Festival is now a single festival expressed locally, globally, in-person and online.

Eleanor International Film Festival is a film festival that focuses on films that trigger people to think about modern social issues while they enjoy them as entertainment. In addition to the social issues being paid attention to by media, the festival also welcomes films that raise new social issues that exist in people’s everyday life. In this film competition, we target young film directors and have directors judging from all over the world to decide on the award winners. Those who win an award will be allocated a film-production budget by our company so that they have an opportunity to produce a short/long film. We look forward to receiving entries of various films with extensive expressions.

The weeklong, inaugural ACT Human Rights Film Festival showcases more than 15 curated, international films that explore a rich spectrum of human rights issues that people around the world, and close at home, confront every day. With context setting introductions to each screening followed by engaging Q&A sessions and thoughtful community outreach, this festival promises to awaken, connect, and inspires us to question, reflect, and act. Join with us to witness the beauty, complexity, and value of human life, celebrate human resilience, and move human rights forward.

Red Carpet dates:

Opening Night – Friday, April 15 at 7:30 p.m. at the Lory Student Center Theater

Centerpiece – Wednesday, April 20 at 7:30 p.m. at the Lory Student Center Theater

Closing Night – Friday, April 22, at 7:30 p.m. at the Lory Student Center Theater

 

The 20th annual Cucalorus Film Festival takes place November 12-16, 2014 in downtown Wilmington, North Carolina. The non-competitive festival showcases more than 200 films from all over the world and attracts an accumulated audience of 14,800 cultural travelers who come to celebrate the art-form and connect with peers. The festival's spirited celebration has been recognized as a breeding ground for young artists, new ideas and lifelong friendships. Festival programs focus on dance, music videos, emerging artists, social justice, works-in-progress, and international cinema. Cucalorus creates an opportunity for intimate engagement between audience and artist through the festival’s retreat-like atmosphere, resulting in friendships that extend far beyond the festival’s 5-day celebration.

In line with the vision of The Next Movement . . .

The U.S. justice system is inhumane and immoral, and can only be changed through the efforts of everyday people passionately working to educate and inform their communities. Core to our success is the conviction that America is committing an incredible injustice on entire populations of its own citizens, and that brought to light, average Americans will become allies in the fight for justice and human rights.

. . . the (In)Justice for All Film Festival (IFAFF) will bring to audiences films that explore our current criminal justice system – police, courts, and corrections – and the for-profit industries that feed at this trough of human misery. We will share the stories of the millions that are relegated to second-class citizenship under an unforgiving system.

We will show better ways that exist in other countries and even best practices right here in America. IFAFF will screen feature length documentaries, as well as topical shorts, with themes covering the following subjects:
 

• The War on Drugs and its effect on individuals, families, and society

• The science of addiction

• The politicization of crime and punishment

• Global alternatives to imprisonment

• Incarceration’s impacts on men, women, and children (inside and out)

• Restorative Justice – Restoring Community Health

• Good Cop/Bad Cop – Discretionary Police Power

• History of Incarceration

• Mental Health in America

• Immigration

• The Gang Alternative

• Prison Reform Movements

• Politically Motivated Imprisonment

• Prison Profiteers – The corporations that profit from prison growth

The power of film to educate and influence, to inspire and engage, and to ultimately exponentially grow the numbers of active allies in the fight to end the embarrassing injustice that mass incarceration represents, is the catalyst for the (In)Justice for All Film Festival.

Cine Migratorio is a migration-themed film festival that will take place May 10-13, 2012 in Santander, Spain. The Festival aims to present a program of artistically accomplished, thematically challenging and stimulating films about migration to students, migrants, Santander residents, and anyone who wishes to join us for this weekend-long event. We hope these films will incite reflection and discussion about migration, but also about the power of film to capture mobility in a modern age. We welcome all film genres (feature, short, documentary, experimental, animation) and do not endorse any one political stance on migration issues. Cine Migratorio endeavors to screen films that explore a wide range of migration-related themes and issues, from the way in which economic and social forces that drive migration cross as many borders as migrants themselves, to personal migration stories, to films less directly concerned with migration but still resonant with its effects and contexts. In addition to screenings, Cine Migratorio will feature lectures, workshops, live music, and other events. Leading up to the festival, Cine Migratorio will host an array of programs in local high schools and local centers. Cine Migratorio will take place May 10-13th in Santander, Spain, in the Paraninfo at the Las Llamas campus of the Universidad Internacional Menendez Pelayo (UIMP).

The International Festival “A Film for Peace” aims at presenting and promoting films focusing on human rights, such as people’s right to peace, the right to water, disarmament, women and children’s rights, the right to a healthy environment, and the right to health care.

New for the 2014 edition, was a special event sponsored by the festival A Film for Peace during the 71st Venice International Film Festival. For the 2015 edition, the Festival intends to strengthen its presence in this area by providing further marketing opportunities to engaging and quality films.