This year’s festival is the biggest yet, presenting seventy feature films and shorts telling powerful stories from 20 countries along with a series of panel discussions and community outreach programs. K-12 students from Orange County Public Schools present artwork that will be displayed in Orlando’s City Hall. The theme of the exhibit is “How Peace Grows” and students from Timber Creek and Jones High Schools will take field trips to see specially selected films.
The Global Peace Film Festival began in 2003 with the mission of utilizing the emotive power of the moving image to further the goal of peace on earth. The GPFF organizers want to make it their mission to expand the definition of peacemaking beyond an absence of war to include the progress that occurs in the personal lives of individuals and their communities the world over.
Tickets for individual films at the Global Peace Film Festival are $8. They are available at the festival box office located in the Q Gallery in the CityArts Factory, 29 S. Orange Ave., on the Global Peace Film Festival and Red Chair Project websites. Festival passes are $99 and $199 and include access to all screenings in all locations. Visit the Global Peace Film Festival for schedule information.
