FilmAid International: projecting hope and changing lives through the power of film

"Films are a powerful and evocative tool for fostering understanding and tolerance in the world" - Nelson Mandela

 

The Power of Film

   

Throughout the world, millions of people are living in refugee camps, having fled violent conflicts and upheaval in their home countries. Traditional aid organizations respond to their immediate physical needs for food, shelter and medical care, but other critical needs are left unattended. The trauma of their past experiences and the uncertainty of their future well-being exact an enormous physical and psychological toll on the men, women and children whom the world knows only as refugees  

 

FilmAid has programs in Kakuma and Dadaab camps in Kenya and Nduta, Kanembwa and Mtendeli camps in Tanzania, and reached a cumulative audience of over one million in 2005.

     

 


What’s New?

   

Power of Film Gala
Click here for a video clip of last years Gala featuring Elvis Costello!

   

*FilmAid International Appoints Steve Mendelsohn as New Executive Director

   

*We’ve Moved! - FilmAid International NY Headquarters have relocated.
New Address: 24 West 23rd Street 4th Floor, NY, New York 10010
    

*Open Air Cinema donates inflatable screens to FilmAid – Tanzania.
Click here for the full story and video clip of the screen in Nduta Refugee Camp.

   

*FilmAid announces the 2nd Annual PVP Film Festival (FilmAid’s Participatory Youth Video Project) to be held on December 7, 2007 in Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya. Click here for an article on last year’s film festival.
FilmAid’s PVP (Participatory Refugee Youth Filmmaking Project) short films have been accepted into the Kenya International Film Festival to be held from September 28th to October 5th in Nairobi, Kenya. Click here to learn more about the Kenya International Film Festival.

   

*Cinereach grants FilmAid $50,000 for support of FilmAid’s refugee youth filmmaking projects (PVP) in Kenya and Tanzania. Click here to learn more about Cinereach.

   

*GLAMOUR Magazine/GLAMOUR REEL MOMENTS grants FilmAid $35,000 for two film based programs focusing specifically on women and girls’ protection and empowerment in refugee camps in Tanzania.

   

*The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has awarded FilmAid International $50,000 to help fund our programs in peace and reconciliation (repatriation projects) and for our youth participatory video programs.
The awards were announced during the Association’s Annual Installation Luncheon honoring its slate of officers at the Beverly Hills Hotel on Thursday, August 9, 2007. Click here for the full story.

   

*FilmAid Founder, Caroline Baron featured in GOOD Magazine