Global Outreach
Throughout the globe, the Academy seeks to inspire local filmmaking communities by sharing the expertise of its professional filmmaker members, who are recognized as leaders in their crafts, as well as fostering an appreciation of each culture’s unique stories. Local partners are engaged and long-term relationships forged, with the goal of supporting the ability of local filmmakers to share their vision, while enhancing their technical capabilities and their sense of themselves as artists.
A customized program is developed for each outreach trip, designed to create opportunities for cultural dialogue specific to each partner country’s filmmaking conditions and challenges. Academy members from diverse crafts such as screenwriting, directing, cinematography, producing, sound, production design, acting, editing and documentary filmmaking participate in a dialogue with local film professionals, students and community members, sharing their movies and stories with one another.
Cuba Outreach: December, 2011
Havana, Cuba
For 11 days in December, Havana became a flashpoint of Cuban cinephilia. The 33rd International Festival of New Latin American Cinema drew hundreds of thousands of Cubans – some of whom saw three or four films per day and scheduled their vacations to coincide with the event – as well as distinguished Academy members Frank Pierson and Gregory Nava; Nava's producing partner, Barbara Martinez Jitner; and Academy Film Archive preservation officer Josef Lindner. More
Ongoing Outreach and Previous Trips
From Here to Havana
Through the efforts of the Academy's International Outreach Committee, a group of members recently traveled to Iran for an educational and cultural exchange with fellow filmmakers. More
The Road to Isfahan
The Academy's International Outreach Committe became the first Western group of artists to be invited to the Islamic Republic of Iran since the revolution there exactly thirty years ago, interacting with fellow filmmakers and engaging in what some might call "personal diplomacy." More All previous trips
