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Hawaii International Film Festival

NAME OF FESTIVAL: Hawaii International Film Festival

SINCE: 1981

WHERE: Honolulu, Hawaii

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL

Hawaii International Film Festival started as a project of the East-West Center, an educational and research institution created by U.S. Congress and located on the University of Hawai`i Manoa campus in Honolulu. Jeannette Paulson Hereniko was HIFF’s Founding Director, from 1981 to 1996. In 1981, HIFF’s inaugural year, the program consisted of seven films from six countries which were viewed by an audience of 5,000. Today, HIFF is a premiere cinematic event in the Pacific and annually attracts more than 70,000 film enthusiasts from around the state, the nation and throughout the world.

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