TOP FILM FESTIVAL PARTNERS, HEROES AND FILMMAKERS

In May 2022, two young indigenous Cofán activists from Ecuador were awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize. Will Parrinello went to Ecuador to film them.

Gabriel Diamond, filmmaker and his inspiration.

Ryan Coogler is a MY HERO IFF Alumni and director of Black Panther, Creed and Fruitvale Station.

filmmaker, peacemaker, environmental activist.Slater Jewell-Kemker has grown up with The MY HERO Project, and has created several short films and stories about her heroes. She is now directing a feature film about young people working to protect the environment, An Incovenient Youth.

Holly Carter, founder and Executive Director of BYkids, has been awarded the Global Media Educator Award in 2021 by The MY HERO Project

Sandi Bachom is a 75-year-old videographer and MY HERO Film Festival winner who lives in New York City.

Hero Frances Moore Lappe is a passionate and pioneering thinker and activist who fights world hunger.

Lynne Cherry and her Young Voices for the Planet Project has featured many wonderful heroes. Lynne Cherry is an author, artist and filmmaker. MY HERO is very grateful to her for sharing her inspiring short films. The heroes she honors are young people who are creating positive change in the world.

MY HERO honors Global Educator Cheikh Darou Seck, a principal from Dakar, Senegal. Since we met at an iEARN conference in Slovakia in 2004, Cheikh and his students have contributed stories, art and films to MY HERO and we are forever grateful to him for his leadership.

"Gloria's Call" by Cheri Gaulke is the 2018 MY HERO International Film Festival Winner of the Eva Haller Women Transforming Media Award.

Brenda Goodman, a MY HERO Film Festival judge, is a professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts in Los Angeles.

Slater Jewell-Kemker and Wendy Jewell accept the Special Hero: Climate Activist Award at the 2021 MY HERO International Film Festival.

Director Mark Pearce and community activist Dr. Anne Poelina accept the Eva Haller Women Transforming Media Award for the short Looking After Spirit. Remarks by MY HERO director Jeanne Meyers, sponsor Eva Haller, MY HERO Film Festival director Wendy Milette.

Mohamed Sidibay is a survivor of a horrific civil war in Sierra Leone, where he was forced to fight as a child soldier. Now he advocates for better access to education worldwide.

A tribute to Skip Blumberg and his heroic efforts to save City Hall Park.

Teen Press is a short documentary about one semester of the Santa Barbara Middle School Teen Press program.

"As the Taliban take control, members of 'Zohra', Afghanistan's first all-female orchestra, wonder what's next for their music and rights as women.

Interview with Tommy Carroll and Logan Cascia, winners of 1st place Music Video in the MH Film Fest.

The MY HERO Project honors Actuality Abroad (Aubrie and Robin Canfield) at the 2020 MY HERO International Film Festival.

Jerrilyn Jacobs has been inspiring students to create meaningful media for over a decade. MY HERO salutes her dedication as a teacher and director of the Taft Media Program.

What happens when a story is forgotten? Our 2014 Emerging Filmmaker Award recipient Kayla Briët on her documentary short "Smoke that Travels"

Celebrating the work of this creative activist.

Emerging Artist 2021 Joint Winner of Overcoming Obstacles - Autism, 2021 Winner Unsung Hero Song Contest, Student, 2020, 2021

Angela Kim is a filmmaker who won MY HERO's Emerging Artist of the Year in 2020 for her film "Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Life."

Young filmmaker Kasha Slavner interviews Unesco Goodwill Ambassador Phan Thi Kim Phuc, who survived a napalm bomb when she was a 9-year-old during the Vietnam War.