The Human Rights Watch Film Festival is the world's leading showcase for distinguished drama, documentary, and animated films that feature human rights themes. Each year highlights from our festivals are presented in our Traveling Film Festival. We see these films as capable of creating forums for discussion in communities across the country. They enable people to see human rights issues and their impact through the art of film, a medium that has the power to share individual stories of suffering and of strength across borders of all kinds.

If you are interested in licensing the traveling festival:

• it is available from September to May each season (no June, July, or August.)
• one can select from three to ten titles at a cost of $200 per title.
• one can license the package for the duration of a week up to a semester.
• one can screen on Beta video or VHS video - depending on availability.
• venues must pay one way shipping - be it to the next site or back to HRW.
• The festival functions on a first come, first serve 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. If one screens a film from our list without permission (i.e. a contract) - it is in violation of our licensing agreements and is considered illegal. If one presents a film using HRW's name without a signed contract on file, that is also in violation of our agreements and will also be considered illegal.
• Venues will be provided with support materials from Human Rights Watch.
  These materials include: Human Rights Watch brochures, images from the films, outreach resources, postcards, preview cassettes, sample flyers, and viewers' guides.

Please feel free to email Andrea Holley at holleya@hrw.org for more information.
You can also download our General Guidelines for the Traveling Festival or the How to HRWFF Guide, which was produced by our HRWU-USC chapter in collaboration with our HRW-LA office. If you cannot download these documents for some reason, we will email them to you.