"Huffman has crafted a remarkable film of courage, heroism, and hope. And the fight is not yet over." — Tom St John Gray

Saving Mes Aynak was reviewed to critical acclaim in this quarter's edition of Current World Archaeology Magazine... 

A small Afghan-lead excavation began last month in a new part of Mes Aynak. They recently discovered the head of a statue, which Afghan archaeologists believe to be of the Buddha...

On September 15, 2015, we had the honor of screening Saving Mes Aynak at the world-renowned Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, one of the most important and influential policy think tanks in the world. Click the "Read More" button below to listen to the full audio of the riveting post-screening discussion!

Writer Valentina Tibaldi of Habitat wrote a powerful article about Saving Mes Aynak for the Green Film Network. Thank you to Valentina for her support, and for helping share the message of Mes Aynak... 

Please join us for two festival screenings of Saving Mes Aynak at the InScience: Dutch International Film Festival in Nijmegen, Netherlands on November 6 & 7. InScience has put together a wonderful pairing of "film + talk" discussions for SMA...

Saving Mes Aynak will screen in beautiful Kathmandu, Nepal as a part of Film Southasia's Festival of Southasian Documentaries! 

Saving Mes Aynak will be the featured documentary film for the IAFOR Documentary Film Award & Festival in Kobe, Japan on Saturday, November 14th! 

Saving Mes Aynak will screen at the "Buddha Goes Boppard" Doku Film Festival in Boppard, Germany on November 1 at 2pm! The festival, presented by the Sawa Rigpa Foundation, serves to highlight documentary films that document and analyze the Buddhist faith and its history...

A potentially history-changing development is taking place in Afghanistan: the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan has just announced the launch of a new embassy-sponsored project with the Oriental Institute (University of Chicago) and the Afghanistan Institute of Archaeology to help preserve Afghanistan's cultural heritage. The effect this could have on Afghanistan's rich history is invaluable, and we hope that it serves to help protect Mes Aynak and sites like it all over the region...

We are proud to announce that over the weekend, Saving Mes Aynak won the Grand Prize Award at the 2015 Arkhaios Cultural Heritage and Archaeology Film Festival! We feel incredibly honored to have been selected for this distinction...

For those in the Northeastern area, Saving Mes Aynak will be screening at Yale University on October 17th as a guest of the Yale Himalaya Initiative... 

We are incredibly honored to be the recipient of the prize for best documentary in the "International One-Hour Film Competition" at the 2015 Cinemambiente International Environmental Film Festival in Torino, Italy!

We're excited to bring Saving Mes Aynak to Italy for the 18th annual Cinemambiente - Environmental Film Festival on October 9th at 6pm... 

Director Brent Huffman's work on social media to help #SaveMesAynak has garnered praise from Indiewire, as Brent was just named one of the '25 Documentary Filmmakers to Follow on Twitter'...

We have some very exciting news to share with you: on January 28, 2016 Saving Mes Aynak will play at the Musée de Louvre in Paris, France as a part of the Journées Internationales du Film Sur l'Art. This is a big moment for Mes Aynak, as the Louvre is arguably the most famous museum in the world....

We are honored to be partnering with the the Yale Himalaya Institute to bring Saving Mes Aynak to Yale University for a screening on Saturday, October 17th at 7:00pm! After the screening will be a Q&A with the director Brent E. Huffman, who will be in attendance...

Please join us on Saturday, October 24th at 3:30pm ET in Hilton Head Island, SC for the Arkhaios Film Festival...

Saving Mes Aynak will screen at the first annual Art & Design Film Festival in Providence RI on Saturday, October 31 at 1:30pm!

Daud Saba, Afghanistan's Minister of Mines and Petroleum has promised to build a new museum dedicated to Mes Aynak and it's 5,000 (and counting) years of history. This museum will purportedly be built in Logar Province (where Mes Aynak is located) on 40 hectares (98 acres) of land allocated just for this project...

We are excited to announce that Saving Mes Aynak will screen in Washington, DC for a one-night-only event at the renowned Carnegie Endowment for International Peace! Please join us on September 15 at 5:30pm EST for this special screening......