The Hollywood Women's Film Institute is a Los Angeles based non-profit feminist arts organization, bringing together women in film, music, TV, Academia and media. The Institute provides an all inclusive empowerment platform for women in the arts. The Hollywood Women's Film Festival is a program of the Hollywood Women's Film Institute. Our board members are writers, directors, producers, activists, professors, actors, attorneys, artists, authors and journalists. It is our goal to bring together the film and Television industries with academia, music and media, in order to facilitate substantial and lasting change for women in the arts. Our educational programs include panels, lectures, workshops and new filmmaker program.

Our festival provides a forum for women from all countries to come to Los Angeles and show their films. Our goal toward change is to engage both men and women in raising awareness through working together and participating in panel discussions and forums to balance the power scales and end gender and racial inequity. Our panels and workshops are focused on filmmaking, directing, writing, producing, composing, costume design, artistic support, financing, distribution, activism in the arts, and ending the systemic culture of sexism in our industry. Join us.