Since the festivals 2009 inception, Honoring Stories worth Telling has been their mandate. For years, New Media Film Festival has led the way in the pursuit of stories worth telling, the exploration of new media technologies, boundary pushing resulting in new distribution models and creating and establishing new methodologies in the global monetization of content. The New Media Film Festival embodies the transformative power of the cinematic arts and it reaches across cultural bridges to wed story and technology for everyone. "Makes the cutting edge accessible" – Huffington Post