Following last year’s hybrid event of distanced, in-person events and online features due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Global Peace Film Festival announced June 29 it will return with its 19th annual festival this fall with a similar style where “thought-provoking” films and art exhibits will be presented.
The festival begins in person on the International Day of Peace on Sept. 21 and runs through Sept. 26. The event will also be held virtually from Sept. 27-Oct. 3. The feature and short films, which will be shown in various locations throughout Orlando and Winter Park, will highlight themes that include civil rights, environmental justice, ethics, human rights, immigration, LGBTQ+, music, social justice, voting, wellness and wildlife.
During the festival’s virtual portion, ticketed and free films, as well as filmmaker interviews, will be available through the GPFF website.
The films being presented for the festival’s 19th outing will be announced in July.
Tickets will be $10 each for in-person films and patrons will also have the option to purchase a $100 White Dove Pass that provides access to all films, both in person and on the virtual platform. Both passes and individual film tickets go on sale in July.
As part of the festival, illustrator and artist Leonardo Bianchi will present his exhibition “HEAL THE WORLD: Make it a Better Place” at CityArts Sept. 16-Oct. 17.
“Bianchi creates images that he hopes will catalyze and empower social change, encourage empathy for others and respect for social justice,” the festival stated in a press release. “His thought-provoking illustrations — inspired by rubber-hose style of early-era cartoon animations from the 1920s and 1930s — address essential themes of humanity and injustice worldwide. Through art and music, his messages help viewers develop empathetic understanding for social and cultural issues through indelible metaphors and an economy of line, color, and text.”
The Global Peace Film Festival, established in 2003, uses motion picture to “further the cause of peace on earth,” according to a press release. The program is made to create a place for open dialogue using these films as “catalysts for change.”
To stay up-to-date on all information for the 19th annual Global Peace Film Festival, go to PeaceFilmFest.org.
