Each November the Houston Cinema Arts Society (HCAS) will present a Cinema and Media Arts Expo honoring influential international media artists as they exhibit programs of current and past work and participate in on-stage conversations about their careers. Surrounding these centerpiece programs will be an array of live events integrating cinema, music, and performance, outdoor projections, interactive installations in galleries, and Internet-designed and generated movies, as well as theatrical presentations of international films and videos.

The Houston Cinema Arts Society will present a “preview” Cinema and Media Arts Expo, November 20 - 23, 2008; a teaser event emblematic of the media artists HCAS will feature and celebrate at the annual Expo. In 2009 the Expo will grow to a week-long festival with concurrent events throughout Houston.

HCAS is designed to collaborate with museums, art centers, theaters, cultural institutions and other urban spaces to co-host film and video screenings, video installations, and multi-media performances related to contemporary art. The Expo will capitalize on Houston’s status as an international art city, and transform its Downtown Corridor into an urban cinema experience for city dwellers, tourists, arts and culture enthusiasts, artists, curators, students, technology works and professionals from all over the world.