Public Health Film Festival

The Public Health Film Festival (PHFF)[1][2] was a film festival originally established by the Public Health Film Society (PHFS).[3] The PHFF debuted in 2014, and took place every two years. PHFF specialised in screening films about health and was listed with the Internet Movie Database (IMDb).[4]

The first three editions of the PHFF were hosted by The Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities (TORCH)[5] at the Radcliffe Humanities Department in Oxford, England.

The theme for the 1st edition of the PHFF was "Public Health Past, Present and Future"; the 2nd, in 2016, was "Health For All"; the 3rd, in 2018, was "Growing Up Well"; the 4th, in 2020, was "Health and wellbeing in a pandemic: stories told through film"; the 5th, in 2022, was "Generation COVID: stories of public health told through film" and the 6th, in 2024, was "AI and Public Health".

The 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th editions of the PHFF hosted screenings of winning films from the International Public Health Film Competition.[6][7][8][9][10][11][12]

The 3rd edition of the PHFF saw the introduction of an Audience Award, which was won by the film Lucy: Breaking the Silence from Fact Not Fiction Films.[13]

From 2026 the PHFF and IPHFC was organised by Public Arts Health & Us (PAHUS).[14] It was renamed to the Peekaboon International Film Festival (PIFF) & iDistribution Competition (iDC). [15][16]


References

  1. ↑ Botchway, Stella; Hoang, Uy (1 January 2016). "Reflections on the United Kingdom's first public health film festival". Perspectives in Public Health. 136 (1): 23–24. doi:10.1177/1757913915619120. PMID 26702114. S2CID 21969020.
  2. ↑ Beth Hibbert (29 October 2013). "A film festival for health". BMJ. 347 f6509. doi:10.1136/bmj.f6509. PMID 24169093. S2CID 29866039. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
  3. ↑ "Public Health Film Society". Retrieved 10 April 2026.
  4. ↑ "Public Health Film Festival". IMDb. Retrieved 10 April 2026.
  5. ↑ "Public Health Film Festival - TORCH". Torch.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 1 May 2017. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
  6. ↑ Hoang, U.; Luna, P.; Russell, P.; Bergonzi-King, L.; Ashton, J.; McCarthy, C.; Donovan, H.; Inman, P.; Seminog, O.; Botchway, S. (1 March 2018). "First International Public Health Film Competition 2016—reflections on the development and use of competition judging criteria". Journal of Public Health. 40 (1): 169–174. doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdx022. PMID 28369436.
  7. ↑ "Public Health Film Competition 2016". Publichealthfilms.org. 12 September 2016. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  8. ↑ "International Public Health Film Competition 2018". Publichealthfilms.org. 10 October 2018. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  9. ↑ "International Public Health Film Competition 2020". Publichealthfilms.org. 27 October 2020. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
  10. ↑ Hoang, U.; Sharma, K.; Russell, P.; Bergonzi-King, L.; Kapoor, N.; Rae, M.; Seminog, O. (4 February 2021). "Reflections on running an International Public Health Film Competition during the COVID-19 pandemic and implications for future film festivals". Journal of Communication in Healthcare. 14: 8–11. doi:10.1080/17538068.2021.1878751.
  11. ↑ Hoang, Uy; Zheng, Lynn; Seminog, Olena; Field, Samantha (20 November 2024). "AI and Public Health Film, a collaboration on the 5th International Public Health Film Competition". UK Faculty of Public Health. Retrieved 10 April 2026.
  12. ↑ Hoang, Uy (31 July 2025). "Public Health Films Between 2016 and 2024; Reflections on Running an International Public Health Film Competition Through the Pandemic Years". Juniper Online Journal of Public Health. Retrieved 10 April 2026.
  13. ↑ "'Lucy: Breaking the Silence' scoops our inaugural Audience Award". Publichealthfilms.org. 9 December 2018. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  14. ↑ "Public Arts Health and Us". Retrieved 10 April 2026.
  15. ↑ "Peekaboon International Film Festival (PIFF) & iDistribution Competition (iDC)". FilmFreeway. 14 February 2026. Retrieved 10 April 2026.
  16. ↑ "Peekaboon". Retrieved 10 April 2026.
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