QWOCMAP STAFF




Left to right: Madeline Lim, T. Kebo Drew, Liliana Hueso
Photo by Andrew Weeks

Executive Director – Madeleine Lim
Originally from Singapore, QWOCMAP founder Madeleine Lim provides artistic direction to all of QWOCMAP's programs, and conducts QWOCMAP's Training Program. Madeleine is a long-time community organizer and an award-winning filmmaker with 20 years of experience. Her own films couple poignant visuals with contemporary themes: lesbians of color, survivors of domestic violence, and immigrants living in America. Her films have been featured at sold-out theaters at international film festivals around the world, museums, universities and broadcast on PBS. She won the 1997 Award of Excellence from the San Jose Film & Video Commission's Joey Awards and the 1998 National Educational Media Network Bronze Apple Award. From 2000 to 2003, she was California Arts Council Artist-in-Residence. In 2004 and 2005, the SF Board of Supervisors awarded Madeleine a Certificate of Honor in public recognition of distinction and merit for outstanding service to the people of San Francisco. In 2005, Madeleine received the LGBT Local Hero Award from KQED-TV in recognition of her leadership of QWOCMAP and her dedicated service to queer women of color. She was the featured filmmaker at the 2006 APAture Asian American Arts Festival and was twice-awarded the highly competitive SFAC Individual Artist Commission for her new film.

Festival Manager – T. Kebo Drew
Kebo Drew manages festival operations, event logistics and volunteers, engages Community Partner organizations and oversees sponsorships and donations for our Film Festival. She has professionally managed events for corporations, festivals, non-profit community and arts organizations for 16 years. A 2nd generation activist, she is also an award-winning poet, dancer and writer, and has performed throughout the U.S., Latin America and Europe. A Cave Canem Poetry Fellow, Kebo won the Audre Lorde/Pat Parker Award and the Astraea Emerging Lesbian Writers Award. Kebo has also won the Irene Weed Dance Award and Robert Kuykendall Dance Scholarship. She was the Film Program Chair of the Femme 2006 Conference. She developed the panel presentation Reels of Resistance: Film IS social justice activism for communities of color which she recently presented at Image+Nation Montreal LGBT Film Festival in 2007.

Program Coordinator – Elisa D. Huerta
Elisa Huerta provides assistance to all QWOCMAP programs, and coordinates festival operations, logistics, PR and publicity, and assists with the management of our Festival Team. She co-directed the 11th annual Women of Color Film/Video Festival at UC Santa Cruz and sat on the curatorial committees for their 12th and 13th annual film festivals, and is passionate about promoting social change through film.

Webmaster – Jennifer Greene
Jennifer Greene manages our website. A hapa-Chinese, she is a web developer, and has worked with computers and graphic arts for several decades.

 

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