Filmmaker Henrik Friis de Magalhães e Meneses founded the production company HFP in 2017 in Copenhagen, Denmark, with other offices in Jakarta, and New York City.12 He and the company's head of production Benn Wiebe have also executive produced documentaries including, Women of the Gulag, which was shortlisted for the 91st Academy Awards.3 HFP is currently co-producing a documentary film, An Elephant in the Room along with director Katrine Philp and producer Katrine Sahlstrøm.4
The company organizes a global event series of film festivals and currently runs 25 festivals around the world.5 In 2018, the company started an annual held film festival Rome Independent Cinema Festival to promote the independent cinema and filmmakers in Italy.6 In 2019, along with the partnership of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), HFP organized Arctic Film Festival, 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, Svalbard, Norway.
Film festivals established and organized by HFP are:
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