The DerHumALC project – Human Rights in Latin America and the Caribbean – aims to create a sphere for the production, gathering, circulation and distribution of audiovisual and multimedia material relating to human rights, the environment and development.
This initiative arose from the need to consolidate the organizational structure of the DerHumALC International Festival of 1997. As a result, the DerHumALC Multimedia Institute [Instituto Multimedia DerHumALC (IMD)] was created in March 1999, with headquarters in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with the aim of being a centre for research, teaching and dissemination of problems relative to human development through the proper use of audiovisual and multimedia resources that new technologies offer us.
After a series of international initiatives that allowed the consolidation of a broad network of relations in Europe and America, on November 1, 2000, the IMD joined the Latin American network of Audiovisual Resource Centres that recognizes the Television Trust for the Environment as a founding member and whose most important result so far is the microMACRO series.
In April 2003, an agreement was signed between the University of Ferrara, Italy, and the National Technological University of Argentina to set up a University Training Centre with an integrated multimedia and distance learning approach in Buenos Aires, with headquarters at the IMD.
In August 2003, at the Locarno Film Festival, IMD participated as a founding member in the creation of the Network of Human Rights Film Festivals that brings together more than 14 Film Festivals on Human Rights from Europe, America, and Asia, from Buenos to New York, Amsterdam, Prague, Moscow, and Seoul.
Today IMD is in a position to move towards achievement of its goals through a solid and broad network of international networks.