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20th anniversary Queer Women of Color Film Festival

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In a wide stance beside a taiko drum, an Asian woman raises a bachi drumstick over her head with a triumphant cheer. At the top, QWOCMAP presents 20th annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival. Festival Focus Joyful Reunion. June 14, 15, 16, 2024. Films fully captioned and described. Below, white text on a red band reads "Presidio Theatre, 99 Moraga Avenue, San Francisco. FREE. festival@qwocmap.org. 415-752-0868, www.qwocmap.org." In the same band are 5 film stills: A Chinese grandmother hugs two young grandchildren, a Filipino man blows into a conch shell, two spirits rest their heads on the shoulders of a Black Ghanaian woman, two older women embrace across a picnic table, and a Black basketball player surrounded by her family. At the bottom on a dark purple band, access logos for ASL, Open Captions, Audio Description, and wheelchair. Funder logos: Ability Central, California Arts Council, SF Department of Children, Youth & their Families, Dream Keeper Initiative, SF Grants for the Arts, William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, Horizons Foundation, Masto Foundation, San Francisco Arts Commission, Wallace Foundation, Zellerbach Family Foundation.Welcome to Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project’s 20th annual International Queer Women of Color Film Festival: A Joyful Reunion.

QWOCFF24 will premiere 44 films in 5 screenings at the free festival, June 14-16, 2024. Yes, free. Access includes captions, audio description, and ASL interpretation at all screenings.

The festival aims to foster a deeper understanding of Indigenous knowledge, shared ecology, and queer realities, countering regressive rhetoric on racial, sexual, and gender diversity.

Celebrating 2 decades of love, QWOCMAP has tons to share, including a panel entitled Unshakeable Legacy: Queer Women of Color Filmmakers, two musical guests, and a special taiko drumming performance from one of the characters in their taiko-centered feature film called Finding Her Beat.

The film festival is recorded, and a virtual encore presentation is available globally after the festival.

Get your free tickets and find info on the films, schedule, festival accessibility, and COVID safety protocol, and donate at QWOCFF.org.

The free annual International Queer Women of Color Film Festival is one of many QWOCMAP artistic programs that fuel leadership and creativity, spark awareness and galvanize action, forge transnational connections between filmmakers, their films, and audiences, build shared understanding, and strengthen both education, and social movements. QWOCMAP uses film to shatter stereotypes and bias, reveal the lived truths of inequality, and challenges the root of inequity through art and activism. And I hope you’ll check them out and attend the free film festival either onsite or online.

Cheryl

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