OVERVIEW

Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project (QWOCMAP) uses film to shatter stereotypes and bias, reveal the lived truth of inequality, and build community around art and activism. Through funding, creating, exhibiting, and distributing high-impact films that reflect the lives of queer women of color (cisgender & transgender), and nonbinary, gender nonconforming, and transgender people of color of any orientation, we transform the world’s most expensive art form into a tool for liberation.

We actively invest in, develop, and nurture the creativity and leadership of African Descent/Black, Asian, Chicanx/Latinx, First Nations/Native American/American Indian/Indigenous, Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander, Southwest Asian, North African/Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, South Asian (SWANA/AMEMSA), and multi-ethnic lesbian, bisexual, and queer women, and nonbinary, gender nonconforming, and transgender people of color, and intersex and Two Spirit people of color.

The Filmmaker Training Program’s Film & Freedom Academy offers workshops September – November. The International Queer Women of Color Film Festival happens two weekends before Pride weekend (2nd or 3rd weekend of the month). The boutique film Distribution Program partners to offer screenings around the world throughout the year.