Coming to a theater near you (well, if you live near the Brava Theater!!) this weekend!!
Brought to you, in part, by The Exiles, a community partner for the Queer Women of Color Film Festival!
Now back to your regularly scheduled programming....
Community Partners
Funders
The
5th annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival features feisty and
fantastic voyages about queer women of color and immigration, from a
journey to the beginnings of colonization, to communities crossing
divisive barb-wire and chain-links, to a family’s wanderlust and
relocation.
Brava Theater
2789 24th Street @ York, SF (directions)
All Screenings are FREE!
www.QWOCMAP.org/festival.html
MULTIPLE BORDERS
FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 7:30pm
(doors open at 6:00pm)
On Opening Night, our Featured Screening showcases transplanted
family dreams, delightful disco-balls, and uprooted lovers traversing
the intimate contours of immigration and migration.
Two Embrace (Carrie House, 2009)
Mi Casa Es Mi Casa (Marta Martinez, 2009)
A Letter Home (Shahrzad M. Davis, 2009)
Homeschool (So Yung Kim, 2009)
A Genealogy of Dreams (Champika Fernando, 2009)
Passports, Love & Disco (Marlene Legaspi, 2009)
The Visit (Jacqueline Francis, 2009)
Lucha (Maria Breaux, 2009)
Solidarity Baby (Maya Chinchilla, 2009)
Color Watch (Jillian Soto, 2009)
Running Time: 73 minutes
*****OPENING NIGHT PARTY*****
June 12, 10:00pm
Bollyhood Café
3372 19th Street @ Mission, SF
Music by DJ Olga T
$5 - $20
Directions
COMMUNITY CONVENING:
QUEER IMMIGRATION
SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 2:00pm
(doors open at 1:30pm)
Our Festival Focus on queer women of color and immigration
continues with a Community Convening featuring a Panel Discussion
and a special film screening. The Convening kicks off a national
campaign that will reframe contentious national
debates about our human rights.
FILMS
Look Again (Jennifer Lin, 2008)
Bienvenida (Yaya Raíz, 2007)
Sambal Belacan in San Francisco (Madeleine Lim, 1997)
Running Time: 39 minutes
PANELISTS
• Noemi Calonje, National Center for Lesbian Rights
• Philip Hwang, Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights
• Madeleine Lim, Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project
• Laura Rivas, National Network for Immigrant & Refugee Rights
The Community Convening provides a unique occasion for
immigrant, LGBTQI, and people of color Community Partner
organizations to join together through film to address the pressing
issues of immigration and queer liberation. By providing a human
face for the personal and political aspects of immigration, these
films will spark vital dialogue and
grassroots
coalitions for social change.
Convening Co-Presenters
ALLGO • Audre Lorde Project • Bay Area Immigrant Rights Coalition • Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights • Transgender, Gender Variant & Intersex Justice Project
QUEERLY IRREVERENT
SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 7:00pm
(doors open at 6:00pm)
Reggaetonic migrating fingers, campy sci-fi adventures, and quests
for identity take off in surprisingly danceable directions.
Gay is NOT the New Black (Jolie Harris, 2009)
Queerer Than Thou (Tera Greene, 2009)
Mr. & Mrs. Singh (Punam S., 2009)
Chillin Like a Villain (L.C. Bruce, 2009)
Dimension of IS: A Spectacular Future
(Gigi Otalvaro-Hormillosa & Heather Cox-Carducci, 2009)
From the Diaries of Two Breasts (Beldan Sezen, 2008)
Tortillera (Awilda Rodriguez Lora, 2009)
What to do after the break-up ... with the s#x t at ys (Lili Tom, 2008)
Running Time: 61 minutes
*****AFTER PARTY FUNDRAISER*****
June 13, 10:00pm
Burning Bush @ The Vibe Lounge
2272 Telegraph Ave. @ West Grand, Oakland
Live Performance by Las Krudas Cubensi
$15
Directions
CRAZYSEXYLIFE
SUNDAY, JUNE 14, 2:00pm
(doors open at 1:00pm)
Alluring accidental encounters, joyous deliveries and deceptive wanderlust collide in these dramatic stories.
A Family Delivery (Lisa M. Davis, 2008)
Lost & Found (Lajuana Decatur, 2009)
My-Grations (Dawn Robinson, 2009)
Sista Chronicles: The Beginning (L.C. Bruce & E.J. Wood, 2008)
When Least Expected (Meja Tyehimba, 2009)
Secret Admirer (Celeste Chan, 2009)
What if? (B.K. Williams, 2009)
Running Time: 71 minutes
ARTISTIC JUSTICE
SUNDAY, JUNE 14, 6:00pm
(doors open at 5:00pm)
PERFORMANCE BY
LAS KRUDAS CUBENSI!
Filmmakers tracing their creative journeys, dream-stirring poetry, and a hip-hop trio’s trailblazing flight intersect in a celebration of the power of art.
The Stories We Tell (Rachel Poulain, 2009)
Glass to Diamonds (Joy Lam, 2009)
Confusion (Rozita Fogelman, 2009)
On My Way (Emily Encina, 2009)
Non-Resident Alien (Cruzito, 2009)
Running Time: 62 minutes
*****CLOSING NIGHT PARTY*****
June 14, 9:00pm
The Monkey Club
2730 21st Street @ Bryant, SF
Music by DJ Black
$5 - $20
Directions
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5th annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival
June 12-14, 2009
Brava Theater
Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project
promotes the creation, exhibition, and
distribution of new films/videos to
address the vital social justice issues
that concern queer women of color,
and create systemic change through art,
activism, and community building.
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