Africa Human Rights Film Festival

Hello Everyone. Thank you for taking your time to know about us. Warm welcome to Africa Human Rights Film Festival, a signature event on the African continent that you should not miss. OUR STORY Africa Human Rights Film Festival (AHRFF) is a registered non-profit organization (NPC No: 2018/360641/08) based in Johannesburg, South Africa, whose mission is to use film to generate robust debate, empower African citizens, raise awareness, and promote respect for human rights across Africa. AHRFF uses cutting-edge human rights themed films as advocacy and awareness-raising tools targeting marginalized communities, national and Africa-wide decision-making bodies. AHRFF creates partnerships between human rights defenders, filmmakers, celebrities, investigative journalists, broader civil society and potential funders for coordinated and concerted efforts to promote human rights awareness in Africa through film. OUR VISION An Africa with high levels of awareness and respect for human rights among policy makers and empowered ordinary citizens in rural, marginalized and urban areas. OUR MISSION To use film to generate robust debate, empower African citizens, raise awareness, and promote respect for human rights across Africa in rural, marginalised and urban areas. OUR GOAL To empower African citizens through awareness raising, foster human rights respect across Africa through the showcase of human rights films and equip young people and human rights defenders through multimedia training workshops Our Objectives i) To raise awareness of human rights in marginalized, rural and urban communities through film screenings. OUR ACTIVITIES a) The Festival is hosted annually Africa Human Rights Film Festival to raise awareness and respect of human rights in rural and urban marginalized communities. b) We seek to establish virtual library of human rights films accessible to the rural and urban communities, civil society and schools. c) Through partnerships, we aim to host screenings online and on-site in various African townships and rural areas raising awareness on human rights issues affecting them. f) We endeavour to carry out multimedia training workshops targeting young people in marginalized rural and urban communities as well as human rights defenders and journalists on the African continent. h) Use social and traditional media to create an awareness of human and advocate for their respect.