Board

QWOCMAP Advisory Board and Mentors

Advisory board members assist with publicity and outreach for our Training and Exhibition programs, as well as serve as consultants. Identified members also serve as mentors to our Intermediate Workshop participants as part of our Training Program.

Aarin Burch (Mentor)
Independent Filmmaker, AARIN BURCH PRODUCTIONS
Director, The Art of Laurel Burch; My People Are... Youth Pride in Mixed Heritage; Michigan Fever; Reflections Unseen

Cheryl Dunye (Mentor)
Independent Filmmaker
Director, My Baby's Daddy; Watermelon Woman; Stranger Inside; She Don't Fade

Mary Guzmán (Mentor)
Independent Filmmaker, ONE OF 9 CUBANITOS FILMS
Director, Do The Math; Mind If I Call You Sir?; Desi's Looking For A New Girl

Pratibha Parmar (Mentor)
Independent Filmmaker, KALI FILMS
Director, American Masters: Alice Walker; Nina's Heavenly Delights; Warrior Marks; Khush; Double The Trouble, Twice The Fun

Jennifer Phang (Mentor)
Independent Filmmaker, AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE ALUMNI
Director, Advantageous; Half Life; Target Audience 9.1; Love Limited

Desi del Valle
Independent Filmmaker, Actor, Media Consultant
Director, Cruel, Back to Life Actor, Desi's Looking for a New Girl, Costa Brava, Mod-Fuck Explosion, Some Prefer Cake, Drift

Yvonne Welbon
Independent Filmmaker, AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE ALUMNI
Chair, Journalism and Media Studies Department, Bennett College for Women.
Director, Living With Pride: Ruth Ellis @ 100; Sisters in Cinema; The Taste of Dirt; Remembering Wei Yi Fang, Remembering Myself; Sisters in the Life: First Love; Missing Relations; The Cinematic Jazz of Julie Dash; Monique