FilmAid

01/09/2025

🎉 Celebrating 25 Years of Storytelling and Impact! 🎥✨

Twenty-five years ago, FilmAid began with a simple idea: Film can heal, empower, and transform lives. From our first screenings in Kosovo in 1999 to our global work today, we’ve focused on amplifying local voices, equipping communities to tell their own stories, and adapting to new technologies.

With our partners at Internews, we’ve expanded our reach to more than a dozen countries, creating opportunities for local voices to shape global narratives.

Stories connect us, bridge divides, and inspire change. Thank you for being part of this journey. Here’s to continuing to share stories that empower, heal, and transform.

Check out our new impact report to learn more about FilmAid’s journey, impact, and vision for the future: https://bit.ly/4fj6JyG

12/09/2024

The Golden Globe Foundation is spreading holiday cheer with the announcement of its 2024-2025 grant recipients. 83 diverse nonprofits will receive funding to support arts education, journalism, free speech, and underserved communities. Over 30 years, the foundation has granted $60M, continuing the philanthropic legacy of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association 📽️

We at FilmAid are so grateful to be among grant recipients - this support enables us to continue connecting communities through storytelling.

"Golden Globe Foundation is committed to investing in its community and striving for a world where all creatives flourish," said Golden Globe Foundation president Henry Arnaud.

12/06/2024

"Golden Globe Foundation is committed to investing in its community and striving for a world where all creatives flourish," said Golden Globe Foundation president Henry Arnaud.

11/12/2024

Congrats to Writing Hawa by Afghan filmmaker Najiba Noori, winner of the FilmAid Award at the Movies That Matter Film Festival! The powerful documentary, following a 52-year-old woman’s journey to emancipation, premieres at on Nov. 17 🎬

“Director Najiba Noori films her mother Hawa and her niece Zahra in their aspirations to emancipate themselves from patriarchal traditions,” says a synopsis of the doc that is world premiering at IDFA.

10/21/2024

Congratulations to filmmaker Youssef El Khoueiry for his recent screening of his animated short ABEER at the Religion Today Film Festival in Trento, Italy. ABEER was produced as part of an Internews/FilmAid project supporting short films on religious tolerance and diversity in Sudan, Lebanon, and Iraq 🤝📽️

10/17/2024

Over the weekend, FilmAid Advisory Council Member Suud Olat attended the Golden Globe Foundation Grantee Mixer in LA, where attendees explored collaborations and shared resources. Excited to continue our 20+ year partnership with the Golden Globe Foundation! 🌟

10/10/2024

FilmAid wrapped up its documentary film camp in Moldova this week 🇲🇩 🎥

We'd like to extend a huge thank you to our community partner Youth Media Center for making the camp possible ❤️ And thanks to Internews in Moldova & Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Moldova

📷 by Ana Gurdis

10/09/2024

Internews Indonesia and FilmAid just wrapped up its Vertical Filmmaking Workshop with the 10th Minikino Film Week international short film festival in Bali 🇮🇩 🎥

Focusing this year on the theme of gender-based violence, attendees took part in vertical film workshops and productions organized by the Kino Media Foundation, in collaboration with Internews and FilmAid.

A post-festival roadshow will include pop-up screenings for the Film Vertical project throughout October in:

• Buleleng, Northern Bali (in collaboration with SMK Bali Mandara, targeting an audience aged 15-17)
• Maumere, East Nusa Tenggara (for a general audience in partnership with Komunitas Kahe)
• Yogyakarta (in collaboration with Asaloka Films, one of the Film Vertical competition winners)

10/07/2024

Congratulations to FilmAid Kenya on a successful 17th Annual Film Festival & for another year amplifying voices across the Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps in Kenya 🥳📽️

More about FA Kenya's work:

FilmAid Kenya uses the power of film to share life-saving information that educates, inspires, and empowers refugees & host communities in Dadaab and Kakuma.

10/03/2024

FilmAid is thrilled to be taking part in a documentary film camp this week in Moldova with community partner Youth Media Center 🇲🇩 🎥

We’re very much looking forward to seeing the films this talented group of diverse Moldovan youth have produced and will screen tomorrow to mark the end of the camp 🎞️

09/09/2024

NFMLA and NALIP are back with STARZ for a third season of the STARZ Writers’ Intensive to support aspiring TV writers from underrepresented backgrounds who desire to make their mark in the world of premium cable. The STARZ Writers' Intensive provides a unique platform for emerging talents to cultivate their skills and refine their spec scripts with the guidance of esteemed mentors, executives, and established writers.

The STARZ Writers’ Intensive will select 4 writers to participate in the program where they will be mentored by industry professionals to hone their understanding of TV writing and develop an episode treatment. Each fellow will receive a $5,000 grant to support their participation in the program.

The program opens for submissions on September 5th, 2024 and the deadline to submit is September 25th, 2024 at 3:59pm PT.

To learn more about submission and applicant requirements, additional program details and to submit yourself for consideration, please visit

Submit your project to STARZ Writers' Intensive (2024) on Coverfly today!