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2018 Queer Women of Color Film Festival

2018 Queer Women of Color Film Festival

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    • Black High Tea
    • Black Enuf*
    • Sensitive
    • My Life, Interrupted
    • A Collage of Masculinity
    • The Quare in There
    • Gabby Antonio Smashes The Imperialist, White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy
    • Encuentro
    • Loss, Deal
    • Reality Fragment 160921
    • Foxy Strikes Back
    • Mariposa
    • Amigas With Benefits
    • Tuupash
    • Blue Jade
    • Her Journey
    • Circles of Care
    • The Indian Is Still Alive and The Indian Knows The Songs
    • Mala Fama
    • The Spores They Left Us
  • Filmmakers
    • Adelina Anthony
    • Alana Devich Cyril
    • Alma Herrera Pazmino
    • BeyondDeep Productions
    • Candy Guinea
    • Carrie Hawks
    • Charlene Dancing Fox
    • Davelle Barnes
    • Dawn Jones Redstone
    • Florencia Manovil
    • Jasmine + April (Qigemu) Lin
    • Jay Gash
    • jazmin calderon
    • L. Frank Manriquez
    • Luann Algoso
    • Mónica Ortiz
    • Natalie Contreras
    • Ngoc Anh Ha
    • Perla Guevara-Otwell
    • Sabine Talaugon
    • Susana Cáceres
    • Taryn Lee Crenshaw
    • Vreni Michelini Castillo
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Staff + Team

Madeleine Lin - QWOCMAP

Madeleine Lim

Executive/Artistic Director

At the age of 23, Madeleine Lim escaped persecution by the Singaporean government for her organizing work as a young lesbian artist-activist. Ten years later, she created Sambal Belacan in San Francisco, a film that is still banned in Singapore for its exploration of race, sexuality and nationality. As one of a small number of queer women of color filmmakers on the international film festival circuit, she saw that only queer women of color would tell their own authentic stories. She created Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project (QWOCMAP) with the belief that a community of artist-activist leaders could change the face of filmmaking and the social justice movement.

As founding Executive/Artistic Director, Lim directs organizational vision and provides artistic direction for all QWOCMAP programs. She is an award-winning filmmaker with more than 20 years of experience as a producer, director, editor, and cinematographer. Her films have screened at sold-out theaters at international film festivals around the world, including the Vancouver International Film Festival, Mill Valley Film Festival, and Amsterdam Amnesty International Film Festival. Her work has also been featured at museums and universities, and broadcast on PBS to over 2.5 million viewers.

Lim holds a B.A. in Cinema from San Francisco State University, where she was awarded Outstanding Cinema Student of the Year. Lim’s films have received awards from the prestigious and highly competitive Paul Robeson Independent Media Fund, as well as the Frameline Film Completion Fund. She received the 1997 Award of Excellence from the San Jose Film & Video Commission’s Joey Awards and won the 1998 National Educational Media Network Bronze Apple Award. From 2000 to 2003, she was a California Arts Council Artist-in-Residence. Under Lim’s leadership, QWOCMAP’s Filmmaker Training Program was awarded 2003 Best Video Program by San Francisco Community Media. In 2005, Lim received the LGBT Local Hero Award from KQED-TV in recognition of her leadership of QWOCMAP and her dedicated service to the queer women of color community. The Featured Filmmaker at the 2006 APAture Asian American Arts Festival, Lim has twice been awarded the San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist Commission for her new film about her mother and other girls adopted from China. She has won the 2007 DreamSpeaker Award from Purple Moon Dance Project, and the 2010 Phoenix Award from Asian Pacific Islander Women & Transgender Community (APIQWTC).


T. Kebo Drew - QWOCMAP

T. Kebo Drew

Managing Director

Drew directs organizational development, strategic thinking, fundraising and communications for QWOCMAP. She joined QWOCMAP as its second staff member in 2007 as a Horizons Foundation Rickey William Leader Fellow, when she developed and expanded the QWOCMAP Community Partner program. She also conceived QWOCMAP’s signature presentation "Reels of Resistance: Film IS Social Justice Activism."

Drew has professionally managed development, operations and events for corporations, community, arts and nonprofit organizations for over 15 years. She is also a member of the Frameline (SF LGBT Film Festival) Board of Directors. She holds a B.P.A. in Nonprofit Administration from the University of San Francisco.

Born in Memphis, Drew is a 2nd generation activist. She is also an award-winning poet, dancer and writer who has performed throughout the U.S., Latin America and Europe. A Cave Canem Poetry Fellow, Drew has won the Audre Lorde/Pat Parker Award and the Astraea Emerging Lesbian Writers Award. She has also won the Irene Weed Dance Award and Robert Kuykendall Dance Scholarship.

Vanessa Rochelle Lewis Vanessa Rochelle Lewis

Vanessa Rochelle Lewis, formerly known as Jezebel Delilah X, is a queer, lush-bodied, Black, femme performance artist, writer, actress, filmmaker, educator, facilitator, orator and Faerie Princess Mermaid Gangsta for The Revolution. She loves to flirt, laugh, perform, crack corny jokes, and insert Octavia Butler references into every conversation. 
 
Vanessa is currently enjoying her dream job as the Development and Events Coordinator for the Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project. Before this, she was the Senior Editor for Everyday Feminism and Black Girl Dangerous, an Instructor at California Community Colleges for over 7 years, and a performer who shared her work at a wide variety of theatre projects, cabarets, and literary events all over the West Coast. She has been a keynote at multiple colleges and conferences and mc'd everything from open-mics to conferences to the San Francisco Dyke March. 
 
Through her passion project, Congregation of Liberation, she has written and produced multiple plays, taught play-writing workshops, and directed some phenomenal emerging actors. Vanessa uses a combination of memoir, poetry, theatre, and feminist storytelling to advance her politix of humor, pleasure, radical love, socioeconomic justice, anti-racism, community accountability, critical reflection, love, healing, and liberation. She loves romantic songs, romantic films, romantic books, romantic conversations, romantic friendships, and writing long, vulnerable, passionate facebook statuses about romance.

Den Legaspi

Arc & Type Designs

Den is responsible for QWOCMAP branding, and designs all promotional materials, including the Festival Program Book, posters and postcards.

Evelyn Rios

Evelyn Rios

Evelyn has put together QWOCMAP's 2018 Festival website. She is the head of Blue Star Business Services, a digital marketing agency that creates websites, runs social media accounts and online advertising, and provides a variety of creative services. She is a former television journalist with two Emmys. She is a trans woman of color living in the South.

Elaina M. Revilla

Most phenomenal and beloved super intern #QWOCMAP2018

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