4 Stars Year Released: 2013 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time:
58 minutes Click to Expand Credits:  Leah Warshawski’s
documentary Finding Hillywood looks at the power of film to
change and heal, not just an individual, but entire communities.
Still traumatized from the genocide that left 20% of the
population dead within a 100 day span, modern-day Rwanda is in a
complex emotional state. One of the paths to healing, however,
is to get people to talk about their pain, often in the form of
stories and, specifically for this documentary, films as they
are created by Rwandans, for Rwandans.  From the creation of
filmmaking courses to the first Rwandan feature films, Finding
Hillywood tells the story of a film industry borne not of what
it can do financially, but of what the art form can do for the
soul. Thus a film industry grows in Rwanda, even if many don’t
know that it exists. Which is where the Hillywood Film Festival
comes in, a traveling film festival that goes from town to town,
setting up public, outdoor s