• QWOCMAP
    Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project
     San Francisco, California

Madeleine Lim
Artistic Director
  • TRAINING PROGRAM
    Founded in 2000 with funding from California Arts Council, QWOCMAP's Artistic Director, award-winning filmmaker Madeleine Lim, conducts free training programs that empower queer women of color participants to complete politically insightful, socially relevant and personally poignant films. The 16-week workshops demystify the filmmaking process, making this medium accessible as a creative art form and a tool for social change. The workshop covers major aspects of screenwriting, film directing and video production - from conception of project idea to movie distribution.
  • EXHIBITION PROGRAM
    QWOCMAP's exhibition program showcases films by and about queer women of color. We consistently feature the world premieres of new films by QWOCMAP workshop participants at the San Francisco LGBT Community Center. Our free public screenings are decisively different from traditional film festivals blending art, public discussion and political activism. Audiences see fresh representations of queer women of color that are otherwise missing from mainstream media. Our post-screening discussions establish a dynamic relationship between artists and audience to create a sense of community. In 2005, QWOCMAP presented the 1st Queer Women of Color Film Festival. Our two programs, "Naked Truths: Queer Women of Color Shorts" and "Espejo: A Closer Look -- Queer Latina Shorts" screened to standing-room-only crowds!
  • QWOCMAP promotes the visibility of queer women of color through the creation and exhibition of films & videos that reflect our life stories and the vital social justice issues that concern our communities. We are committed to serving queer women of color media artists, especially low-income and immigrant women, who have limited access. As media artists, we are typically silenced by economic censorship: the cost of film/video production is approximately $1,000 per finished minute and for many of us, acquiring the skills and tools for creative expression in this art form is economically unfeasible. QWOCMAP provides free access to professional, hands-on digital-video training, filmmaking equipment and film screenings to guarantee full access to queer women of color emerging media artists.

  • QWOCMAP
    Madeleine Lim, Artistic Director
    59 Cook Street
    San Francisco, CA 94118
    415.752.0868
    madbullfilms@sbcglobal.net