Category: Announcement

Purchase Tickets at The Lyric This February the ACT Human Rights Film Festival launches a new “ACT Year Round” initiative to showcase must-see human rights documentary films that don’t make it into the annual festival. On Thursday, Feb. 7, ACT Year Round is partnering with The Lyric to host a…

Prices for the 2019 ACT Human Rights Film Festival have been announced with advance purchase for All Festival and Weekend passes beginning in mid-February through the ACT website. Individual tickets will be available for purchase beginning March 5, when the complete festival schedule is released. 2019 Festival Schedule Subject to…

The ACT Human Rights Film Festival is the latest festival to be accepted into the Human Rights Film Network (HRFN), an international partnership of 41 independent human rights film festivals. The Network’s general assembly announced ACT’s membership at its annual meeting at the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam on Monday, November 19.   Produced by the Department of Communication…

To everyone who attended and supported the inaugural ACT Human Rights Film Festival – THANK YOU! The week was an amazing success. Interested in making the festival a reality in 2017 and beyond? We invite you to deepen your partnership with us. Creating a rich, diverse, and thought-provoking human rights festival…

Organizers of Colorado State University’s inaugural ACT Human Rights Film Festival kicked off their awareness-raising campaign for the April 15-22 event during the Martin Luther King Day March on Monday. Festival volunteers, donning ACT (Awaken, Connect, Transform) T-shirts, handed out stickers and postcards promoting the film festival, which will feature…

Dr. Scott Diffrient Human rights film festivals are to communication studies professor Dr. Scott Diffrient what the craft beer industry is to Fort Collins: an influential marker of community identity. In April 2016 the Department of Communication Human rights film festivals are to communication studies professor Dr. Scott Diffrient what…