Traveling Festival

The Human Rights Watch Film Festival bears witness to human rights violations and creates a forum for courageous individuals on both sides of the lens to empower audiences with the knowledge that personal commitment can make a difference. The film festival brings to life human rights abuses through storytelling in a way that challenges each individual to empathize and demand justice for all people.

Each year highlights from our London and New York festivals are presented in our Traveling Film Festival. The 2011-2012 season of the Traveling Festival begins in September 2011 and runs through May 2012. Please note that the traveling festival is only available in the US and Canada at this time.

If you are interested in licensing the traveling festival click here.

* You can select from a minimum of three titles to a maximum of all the titles at a cost of $300 per title.

* You can screen each title twice. You can screen certain titles more than twice, but we must request special permission for these additional screenings.

* You can license the package for the duration of a week up to a semester.

* You can screen on Digibeta or DVD - depending on availability.

* You must pay one way shipping - be it to the next site or back to HRW.

* The festival books on a rolling basis. Dates and films are not confirmed until you have signed and returned your traveling festival contract. Payment is not expected until 30 days after your final screening.

* Titles NOT listed as part of our traveling festival title list are not available through HRW. One must contact the distributor or filmmaker directly for all other titles on our site. Equally, if one screens a film from our traveling festival list without permission (i.e. a contract) - it is in violation of our licensing agreements.

* Human Rights Watch provides support materials for all the films. These items include: information on Human Rights Watch's work, images and press kits for the films, and preview DVDs.

If you would like more information or would like to make a booking, please contact Jennifer Nedbalsky on 212-216-1247 or at nedbalj@hrw.org.

Festival Program

Better This World Filmmaker(s): Katie Galloway and Kelly Duane de la Vega Year: 2011 / 93 A dramatic story of idealism, loyalty, crime, and betrayal, BETTER THIS WORLD goes to the heart of the “war on terror” and its impact on civil liberties and political dissent in the United States after 9/11.	Granito: How to Nail a Dictator Filmmaker(s): Pamela Yates, Peter Kinoy and Paco de Onis Year: 2010 / 100m Part political thriller, part memoir, Granito takes us through a haunting tale of genocide and justice that spans four decades, two films, and filmmaker Pamela Yates’s own career.
The Green Wave Filmmaker(s): Ali Samadi Ahadi Year: 2010 / 80m By providing an animated backdrop for the urgent blog posts and tweets that became a lifeline to Iranian pro-democracy activists, The Green Wave recounts the dramatic events of the most severe domestic crisis in the history of Iran.	If a Tree Falls Filmmaker(s): Marshall Curry (director) and Sam Cullman (co-director) Year: 2011 / 85m How far would you go to create change? In December 2005 Daniel McGowan, a prominent New York City social justice organizer, was arrested by federal agents in a nationwide sweep of activists linked to crimes by the Earth Liberation Front (ELF)—a group the FBI has called America's "number one domestic terrorism threat."
Impunity Filmmaker(s): Juan José Lozano and Hollman Morris Year: 2010 / 85m What is the cost of truth for families immobilised by Colombia's violent past?	Love Crimes of Kabul Filmmaker(s): Tanaz Eshaghian Year: 2010 / 71m Jailed for running away from home to escape abuse, for allegations of adultery, and other “moral crimes,” the women of Afghanistan’s Badum Bagh prison band together to fight for their freedom.
The Price of Sex Filmmaker(s): Mimi Chakarova Year: 2010 / 73m The Price of Sex is an unprecedented inquiry into a dark side of immigration: the underground criminal network of human trafficking and the experiences of Eastern European women forced into prostitution abroad.	This is My Land Hebron Filmmaker(s): Giulia Amati and Stephen Natanson Year: 2010 / 75m Hebron is the largest city in the occupied West Bank, home to 160,000 Palestinians. It is also home to one of the first Israeli settlements in the West Bank and the only one right in the heart of a Palestinian city.
When the Mountains Tremble Filmmaker(s): Directed by Pamela Yates and Newton Thomas Sigel, Produced and Edited by Peter Kinoy Year: 1985 / 83m In the early 1980s, death squads roamed the Guatemalan countryside in a war against the unarmed indigenous population that went largely unreported in the international media. A unique group of filmmakers threw themselves into the task of bringing the crisis to the world’s attention.	You Don't Like the Truth - 4 Days Inside Guantanamo Filmmaker(s): Luc Côté and Patricio Henríquez Year: 2010 / 99m You Don't Like the Truth – 4 Days Inside Guantanamo is a stunning documentary based on security camera footage from an encounter in Guantanamo Bay between a team of Canadian intelligence agents and Canadian citizen Omar Khadr, then a 16-year-old detainee.