Home Movie Day (established 2002) is an annual event that celebrates amateur films and filmmaking.
The event is an opportunity to discover the personal, historical, and social importance of home movies and for individuals to learn how to best care for them.
The first Home Movie Day was held August 16, 2003 (8/16), a play on the respective film gauges.
Think of Me First as a Person, an amateur documentary about a boy with Down syndrome, was shown at the New Orleans event in August 2006 and added to the National Film Registry in December 2006.
"Disneyland Dream", a 1956 amateur film about the Robbins Barstow family of Wethersfield, Connecticut, winning a free trip to newly opened Disneyland theme park in Anaheim, California, in a nationwide contest, was shown at the August 2006 Home Movie Day in New Haven, Connecticut, and was named to the National Film Registry in December 2008.