Our first initiative will be the 2008 HMF International Film/Media Festival & Conference in New York City December 10-14, 2008 at the Tribeca Cinemas, Gallery, and Event Spaces.

The 2008 Festival & Conference will include the following components:

1) A high-profile international, competitive film festival for international film, both narrative and documentary, in short and long forms, with sidebars representing specific humanitarian crises.

2) Art/Photographic gallery openings and exhibitions, from among internationally-known artists and photojournalists, both to explore critical humanitarian crises and subject matter, and to raise funds for the issues themselves. Several key slots will also be open for a competitive Call for Entries.

3) A high-profile conference among international policy institutions, international journalists, news agencies, new media companies, representatives of social media and Web 2.0, filmmakers and documentarians, humanitarian NGO's and aid agencies to better facilitate collaboration critical to humanitarian media exposure.

Calls for Entries for the Film Festival and open slots for the Art/Photographic Exhibition, and a Call for Papers for the Conference portion will begin June 1, 2008. Further information will be forthcoming shortly.

All proceeds from the festival, gallery opening, and events will go to the HMF for its general and emergency grant programs and to associated charities.


Please don't hesitate to contact us in the interim for further information or for any questions.