4th Annual
2008 Queer Women of Color Film Festival

The Queer Women of Color Film Festival is held every year in June in San Francisco and features films that address the vital social justice issues that concern women of color and our communities, authentically reflect our life stories, and build community through art and activism. Enjoy the creativity of emerging media atrists who are Asian/Pacific Islander, Black/African American, Chicana/Latina, Native American and Mixed-Race lesbians, bisexual, queer and questioning women in the Bay Area.

Now in its fourth year, the festival started in June 2003 in one room at the San Francisco's LGBT Center with a free screening that drew standing-room-only crowds. In 2005, the packed annual screenings expanded into the 1st Annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival. Now held in the full-sized Brava Theatre- the festival is still free, thanks to generous grants, donors and partners and includes free refreshments and an exciting featured panel (with a sliding-scale admission) each year.

Donations keep QWOCMAP and the Festival going - please support us and donate- you can even help sponsor the festival!

The Festival succeeds thanks to the incredible effort and enthusiastic help of the QWOCMAP Staff and Festival Team.

QWOCMAP STAFF (bios here)

• Executive Director - Madeleine Lim
• Festival Manager - T. Kebo Drew
• Program Coordinator - Elisa D. Huerta

2008 FESTIVAL TEAM

• Jeanette Aguilar has written and directed three short films, and is currently seeking funding for her first feature film, Bash Back.
• Nancy Angel is a 22-year-old Mexicana, a junior at San Francisco State University who has great expectations of life and the people around her.
• Tina Bartolome is equal parts island-pace, dialectic materialist, astrologist, Frisco nationalist and dancehall queen.
• Mel Chen
• Dominique De Guzman is a Filipino-American immigrant, former foster child, and first time video/filmmaker living in San Francisco.
• Rachel Ebora is a multi-media artist immigrant pinay queer geek QWOCMAP groupie who drums, cooks, eats, bikes around the city, and revels in dorkiness.
• Elokin is a dirt-loving femme who relishes in bits of decolonization by growing food, riding bikes, and gettin' crafty.
• Jennifer Greene is a hapa-Chinese from Maine and is an artist, web developer, and energy worker; she is the webmaster of the QWOCMAP website.
• Jolie Harris is a filmmaker, and the founder of Thrive, Social Justice Consulting for Educators and Non-Profits.
• Vanessa Huang is a Chinese-American writer, poet, filmmaker, cellist, and community organizer born in Berkeley to immigrants from Taipei.
• CJ Jiang is a fire fighter, and was the co-coordinator of APIQWTC from 2004-2007 but is now resting comfortably on her laurels and eating shrimp chips.
• Deb Jue is a former member of Voices Lesbian Choral Ensemble, and is the present co-coordinator of APIQWTC.
• Laurie Koh is a writer, filmmaker, former Managing Editor of the Film Arts Magazine, and proud graduate of QWOCMAP.
• Joy Lam
• Vanessa Lewis, a plain Jane 9-5er by day and a radical art obsessed neurotic by night, is ecstatic to be a part of the QWOCMAP family.
• Christine Liang works, plays and imagines in her hometown of San Francisco.
• Kristina Lovato-Hermann is a visual artist and social worker in San Francisco who utilizes art as a tool for healing and social action.
• Redwolf Painter is a two-spirit mixed blood Heyoka retired punk from Alaska.
• Ami Puri dreams of global cultural change that recenters the values of playful, just and creative sharing of resources.
• Lourdes Rivas is a working class queer Chicana from Lynwood, who enjoys writing, reading, photography, and now film.
• Margo Rivera-Weiss was made in Miami, loves Hadas, art, cooking and tropical flavors/colors.
• Tonilyn Sideco is a singer, performing artist, filmmaker, and coordinates Queer Youth Action Projects at LYRIC, which uses filmmaking as a tool for creating change in our communities.
• Stephanie Yang is a queer hapa Taiwanese-American who finds love, meaning and truth through making films.
• Kiki Zerrudo is a queer single mum who works for a global consulting firm.