events

Festivals

FilmAid creates and participates in film festivals and other events that celebrate and empower vulnerable communities around the world.

FilmAid Kenya’s Film Festival 2021

Watch FilmAid Kenya’s Annual Film Festival online on September 18, 2021.

Game of Thrones Raises money for FilmAid

FilmAid was selected as one of 10 charitable causes that HBO helped raise money for during a Game of Thrones “MaraThrone” in April 2021 to mark 10 years since the epic’s launch. Read more

FilmAid Celebrates its 20th Anniversary

FilmAid celebrated its 20th Anniversary with a starry celebration at NYC’s The Standard, High Line. Participant Media CEO David Linde was honored with the FilmAid Richard C. Holbrooke Memorial Award for Dedication to Humanitarian Service, presented by Katie Holmes.

Filmaid at Lincoln Center Global Exchange

FilmAid was proud to be selected to participate in the Lincoln Center Global Exchange, an invitation-only gathering of world leaders and change agents devoted to exploring the role of art and culture in addressing critical challenges facing our collective future. FilmAid founder, Caroline Baron, joined Michael Bloomberg, Samantha Power, David Miliband, Stephen Daldry, David Rubenstein among other prominent art and humanitarian industry leaders on the main stage of the conference to explore how art can heal the wounds and divisions of conflict.

FilmAid Honored at Cannes Film Festival

FilmAid was honored at a cocktail party at Nikki Beach at the InterContinental Carlton, receiving donations from industry attendees including Participant Media, Twentieth Century Fox, HFPA, Fox Searchlight and FilmNation Entertainment. Also in attendance were Dionne Warwick, Joel Edgerton, 20th Century Fox chairman and CEO Jim Gianopulos and Sony Pictures Classics co-presidents and co-founders Tom Bernard and Michael Barker.

23rd Annual NY Oscar Night Viewing Party Benefits FilmAid

For the first time, the NY Oscar celebration benefited a charity. Held at NYC’s famed 21 Club, the evening brought together East Coast Academy members, prior Oscar winners and nominees to celebrate Hollywood’s biggest night. Attendees included Alfre Wood, Beau Bridges, Celia Weston, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, Lois Smith, Mary Stuart Masterson and many others.

Kenya Film Festival

For 13 years FilmAid has celebrated the creative self-expression and ambitious determination of young filmmakers demanding to tell their own stories and represent their own communities. The annual film festival traditionally held in Daddab, Kakuma, and Nairobi provides a platform for young and emerging filmmakers.

South Sudan Film Festival

A refugee with a passion for film as a form of personal expression, Simon Bingo, a former FilmAid student founded the Juba Film Festival in South Sudan. This film festival encourages others to inspire and creatively express themselves through the art of storytelling. As the first film festival in the country, it was hosted in a soccer stadium as there are no cinemas.

For more information: The Journey of The Stories: Juba Film Festival.

Myanmar Film Festival

Hundreds of people arrived at the 90-year-old Art Deco Shwe Hinthar cinema in Bago town for the first ever three-day Human Rights Film Festival. The Myanmar Film Festival presented a life changing opportunity for young filmmakers to tell their own story, advocate for their own community, and to do meaningful work for society. Pictured below is Mon Mon Myat, an early graduate of Internews’ ten­ month J School program and festival organizer, film producer, writer, and journalist