QWOCMAP :: Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project

PROGRAMS

QWOCMAP provides training, screening opportunities and resources free of charge to guarantee full access to our traditionally underserved community, particularly low-income and immigrant queer women of color.

Training Program

Since 2000, QWOCMAP's founder, award-winning filmmaker Madeleine Lim has conducted free workshops that demystify filmmaking to make it accessible as an art form and a tool for social change. Since 2003, QWOCMAP has fostered the creation of over 120 new personally poignant, socially relevant and politically insightful films, single-handedly increasing the number of films by and about queer women of color.

Exhibition Program

Our free annual Film Festival blends art and activism with community building, and is decisively different from traditional film festivals. In June 2003, our first free screening drew standing-room-only crowds. In 2005, our packed annual screenings expanded into the 1st Annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival.

Distribution Program

We assist other film venues around the world by providing original QWOCMAP films. Our films have screened at film festivals in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, Boston, Pittsburgh, Washington D.C., Toronto, Vancouver, Costa Rica, Brazil, Germany, Britain, India, Thailand and the Philippines. We also curate screenings in collaboration with other arts, community and social justice organizations.

Training Program :: Information about current training workshops.
Film Festivals :: Information about upcoming and past film festivals.
Other QWOCMAP Screenings :: Information about upcoming and past exhibitions.
Films :: Links to QWOCMAP films online.

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Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project (QWOCMAP) promotes the creation, exhibition and distribution of new films and videos that increase the visibility of queer women of color, authentically reflect our life stories, and address the vital social justice issues that concern our communities.