North Dakota Human Rights Film & Arts Festival
The North Dakota Human Rights Film and Arts Festival returns in 2023. The traveling art exhibition opens in January at the Plains Art Museum in Fargo, North Dakota, and will travel throughout the state until January 2024. Learn more about the traveling exhibition, participating artists, and avant-garde experimental filmmakers and animators.
Submissions for the film festival, which opens November 6 in Fargo at the historic Fargo Theatre, are being accepted via FilmFreeway through May 31, 2023.
Submit Your Film
May 31, 2023
The NDHRFF proudly accepts submissions on FilmFreeway.
Festival Event Calendar
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2023 Invited Artist
Photo courtesy of Nedahness Rose Greene (Greene Photography)
Hillary Kempenich
Anishinaabe Multidisciplinary Artist
Our 2023 Invited Artist is award-winning creator Hillary Kempenich.
Hillary Kempenich is a multi-disciplinary artist, cultural bearer, and advocate, emphasizing her work to empower Indigenous people. She is a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa.
Hillary has immersed herself in sustaining her small business and continues her passion for community work. Raised on the Turtle Mountain reservation, Kempenich continues advocating for better educational, health, and cultural standards through her work in urban and rural communities.
Her work, Power of Ikwe, will travel with the exhibition in 2023.
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Festival Event Calendar
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News and Press
The latest news and press about the festival.
Online Program
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Virtual Cinema
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Video Archive
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Program Archive
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Poster Archive
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2023 Advisory Board
Tathagata Ghosh
Mumbai, India
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Anna Johnson
Fargo, ND
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Paulette Moore
Sedona, AZ
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Festival Staff
Sean Coffman
Festival Director
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Shawn Cotter
Queer Cinema Director
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Frederick Edwards
Black Cinema Director
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Ben Efron
Technical Director
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Falcon Gott
Native American Cinema Director
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Jim Heilmann
Minot Program Director
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Matt Johnson
Musical Director
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Melanie Moniz
Twin Buttes Program Director
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Upcoming Events
09 Feb
The Gallery at Empire Arts Center | Grand Forks
02 Mar
The Gallery at Empire Arts Center | Grand Forks
03 Mar
The exhibition closes in Grand Forks