Farhang Foundation Short Film Festival - Partner
Farhang Foundation is a non-religious, non-political and not-for-profit foundation established in 2008 to celebrate and to promote the study and research of Iranian art and culture for the benefit of the community at large. The foundation supports academic activities in Southern California by funding university programs, publications and conferences. The foundation also supports cultural programs such as celebration of Nowruz and Mehregan, theater, dance performances, films screenings and poetry reading in Southern California. Farhang Foundation, in cooperation with various cultural and academic institutions plans major programs and exhibitions about Iran and its culture. For more info visit: www.farhang.org.
Community Partners
SOCIARTS is a production company and online community dedicated to promoting positive social change through the arts and media. SOCIARTS’ mission is to create a vibrant environment for creative visionaries to come together and focus on conscious creativity and positive activism, while encouraging openness to the diversity of the world's cultures. SOCIARTS has been proudly managing the Farhang Foundation Short Film Festival since its inception in 2009. Membership with SOCIARTS is free and open to anyone and everyone. For more information visit: www.sociarts.com.
Special thanks to the following organizations for helping us with this year’s Festival:
| American Film Institute |
| The Art Institute of California, Los Angeles |
| California State University, Northridge - Department of Cinema and Television Arts |
| Chapman University - Dodge College of Film and Media Arts |
| Columbia University - School of the Arts |
| Emerson College - Visual and Media Arts |
| London Film School |
| Los Angeles City College |
| Los Angeles Film School |
| Loyola Marymount University - School of Film and Television |
| New York University - Tisch School of the Arts |
| Santa Monica College - The Academy of Entertainment and Technology |
| Stanford University - Department of Art and Art History |
| University of California, Berkeley - Department of Film and Media Studies |
| University of California, Los Angeles - School of Theater, Film and Television |
| University of Southern California - School of Cinematic Arts |
| University of Toronto - Cinema Studies Institute |
