Hawaii International Film Festival
00 Apr - 00 Apr 2012
HIFF started as a project of the East-West Center, an educational and research institution created by U.S.
Congress and located on the University of Hawai`i Manoa campus in Honolulu.
Jeannette Paulson Hereniko was HIFF's Founding Director, from 1981 to 1996.

The first HIFF screened seven films from six countries to an audience of 5,000.
The year was 1981.
Today, HIFF is the a premiere cinematic event in the Pacific that has had more than one dozen screening sites on six Hawaiian Islands and draws an audience of 80,000 or more from around the state, the nation and throughout the world.