With each season culminating in events with screenings in the heart of Hollywood, the HIDFF embraces diversity of gender and cultural perspectives around the world, and celebrates our differences to promote understanding and empathy through independent film.

 

​Films that...Entertain...Educate...Inspire​The  2016 Denton Black Film Festival (DBFF) will showcase films that entertain, educate, inspire, and communicate Black American cultural themes to the broader community as expressed through movies and art that reflect cultural mindset and changes through several generations of film-making.  The 2016 Denton Black Film Festival (DBFF) is a month long expo of engaging and entertaining films and events, culminating in a major screening of over 25 award-winning and/or though provoking films January 29-31. The Festival offers programming for the family inspired by the African-American experience.  DBFF seeks to offer the works of local, national and international filmmakers, that often are not seen by a broad audience and may not be recognized through major theatrical release.

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).

My First Festival is a film fest for schools and family audiences which celebrates its third edition this year. With venues at Verdi Cinemas and the Catalan Film Institute (Filmoteca de Catalunya) in Barcelona, the event will take place from 20 to 28 November 2010.

The festival was set up to promote children’s films in all their variety and creativity, showcasing a selection of works from all over the world and from throughout cinema history. Its goals are to entertain and to educate, to stimulate the imagination and creativity and to awaken the critical spirit.

This year we include in the program a competition section open to short films, fiction and animated, targeted to children from 5 to 12 years old.

GlobalFest is a not-for-profit, volunteer-based, community and cultural organization committed to producing inclusive, world-class, multi-faceted arts and cultural events that celebrate and showcase cultural diversity and artistic excellence in communities locally and across the globe.

GlobalFest FilmFest: Exposed will feature revealing domestic and international independent documentary films from unique perspectives at the Plaza Theatre January 29th- 31st, 2010. The films programmed are intended to hopefully educate and inspire all of our audiences and provide insight into the best in art, culture and adventure.