CONNECTING HEARTS AND COMMUNITIES ONE SHORT FILM EVENT AT A TIME.
with short film events that introduce audiences to storytelling highlighting our shared human experience, helping us see ourselves in each other.
The Haudenosaunee Micro-Short Film Program – Saturday September 6, 2025 1-3 PM
“Haudenosaunee filmmaking is emerging in a way that is becoming more into the public awareness of who we are as people, how we speak, what we look like.” – Terry Jones, co-creator, curator, and host.
This unique short film screening program brings WNY Indigenous and non-Indigenous community members together to connect and celebrate Indigenous storytelling in film/video. HMSFP screens 12-15 short films, up to five minutes in duration, created by Haudenosaunee emerging and professional filmmakers from youth to adult.
HMSFP creates a safe and welcoming space for Haudenosaunee artists and community members where they are seen, heard, and respected. All programming, design, messaging, and marketing decisions for this program are made together.
Spark Micro-Short Film Festival
April/May 2026 TBA – Buffalo & Erie County Downtown Central Library
“Stories of joy, health, and connection and visions of the world ahead.”
This year, we invite vertical and horizontal short films that imagine the world we are building together—one rooted in joy, love, health, and human connection. Beyond resisting the old, we seek stories that expand consciousness, celebrate our shared humanity, and envision daily lives, communities, and systems of governance aligned with the best of who we can be. We welcome bold, hopeful, and creative visions of the future—films that show us what it looks like to live in harmony, to thrive, and to dream the new earth into being.
Believe in Ukraine Short Film Program
“Full circle is what Ukrainians want for their country: to go through challenges and come out on the other side better and stronger. Safe and free. And have the pre-war topics return to the surface again, becoming the most critical agenda like as in times of peace. – Anastasia Kirii, Program Curator
This 52-minute short film program begins pre-war stories of day-to-day Ukrainian life, continues with the rough and unbelievable reality of war told from different perspectives, and ends with rebirth, starting the loop all over.
