HF Productions is a film production company that produces a global event series of film festivals and is based in

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, Denmark.

Arctic Film Festival Arctic Film Festival is an annual film festival held in September in the Norwegian archipelago, Svalbard's town, Longyearbyen. The festival is organized by HF Productions, and is a United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals' (SDGs) initiat ...

is one of the festivals organized by HF.

History and work

Filmmaker Henrik Friis de Magalhães e Meneses founded the production company HF Productions in 2017 in

, Denmark, with other offices in

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, and

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. He and the company's head of production Benn Wiebe have also executive produced documentaries including, ''

Women of the Gulag ''Women of the Gulag'' is a 2018 US short documentary film directed by Marianna Yarovskaya. and based on the book ''Women of the Gulag: Stories of Five Remarkable Lives'' by Paul Roderick Gregory (2013). Executive Produced by Mitchell Block and Ma ...

'', which was shortlisted for the

91st Academy Awards The 91st Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2018 and took place on February 24, 2019, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. During the ceremony, A ...

. HF is currently co-producing a documentary film, ''An Elephant in the Room'' along with director Katrine Philp and producer Katrine Sahlstrøm. The company organizes a global event series of film festivals and currently runs 25 festivals around the world. In 2018, the company started an annual held film festival

Rome Independent Cinema Festival Rome Independent Cinema Festival is an annual film festival held in August in the Rome, Italy. The festival is organized by HF Productions, and was first held in August 2018. The festival Rome Independent Cinema Festival was first started in ...

to promote the independent cinema and filmmakers in Italy. In 2019, along with the partnership of the

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(SDGs), HF organized

, the northernmost film festival in the world. Filmmakers from all around the world submitted their films and winners were given awards during the ceremony held in

Longyearbyen Longyearbyen (, locally �lɔ̀ŋjɑrˌbyːən "The Longyear Town") is the world's northernmost settlement with a population greater than 1,000 and the largest inhabited area of Svalbard, Norway. It stretches along the foot of the left bank ...

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, Norway.

Film festivals

Film festivals established and organized by HF Productions are: *

Santorini Film Festival Santorini Film Festival is an annual film festival organized by HF Productions, held in July in Santorini, an island in the southern Aegean Sea. The festival was first held in June 2018 and takes place annually to promote independent cinema in ...

Filmography

* ''

'' (2018) * ''An Elephant in the Room'' (filming)

References

External links

* {{Official website, https://www.hf-productions.net/, HF Productions' official website Film production companies of Denmark Mass media companies based in Copenhagen Non-theatrical film production companies Documentary film production companies Mass media companies established in 2017 Companies based in Copenhagen Municipality