18th annual international Queer Women of Color Film Festival
18th annual international Queer Women of Color Film Festival
A young Vietnamese woman sinuously flows down the alluring arteries of San Francisco.
Bio: n.nguyễn/ nimo is an SF-raised; advocate, lover of the outdoors and the arts; bikes a lot and admires cartography.
Sunday, June 12, 2022
5 pm PT
Ceremony and song pierce open memories of climate change and graft new stories onto our collective existence.
Content Warning: Climate catastrophe, omnicide
Bio: Tierra Allen contributes to movements for collective liberation as a theater maker, teaching artist, activist, cultural producer, and more.
Website: https://linktr.ee/_tierra
Sunday, June 12, 2022
5 pm PT
Poetry and collage rebirth a young queer Black person who manifests the Universe’s love.
Content Warning: Emotional pain
Bio: CJ is a Pan-African artist who explores identity through collaborative storytelling. A Bridges fellow of the Bay Area Video Coalition, a godmother, and an expression of the Universe's love for us.
Sunday, June 12, 2022
5 pm PT
The reunification of body and spirit murmurs to Afro-Indigenous femmes as they leap across timelines, dimensions, and goddess rituals.
Bio: dezi solèy is prizmatic queer femme storyteller (actor, writer, director, videographer) of Haitian descent & Ev Marquee is a Mexican multi-dimensional queer femme storyteller (director, photographer, videographer). Both solèy and Marquee are devoted to new paradigm visions and conjuring embodiments of the Divine.
Website: www.wearethenewparadigm.com / Instagram: @wearethenewparadigm
Sunday, June 12, 2022
5 pm PT
Filipinx community rituals pulse with grief, transformation, and collective healing.
Content Warning: Mentions of death and grief
Bio: SAMMAY is a Filipinx American choreographer, filmmaker, and cultural producer reimagining, practicing, and manifesting radical futurity through embodiment and ritual.
Website: www.sammaydizon.com / Instagram: @sammaybabay
Sunday, June 12, 2022
1 pm PT
Queer trans artists exhale in a tribute to the Chinese woman immigrant who was forced to perform in a zoo.
Content Warning: Flashing images, mention of racism, forced performance
Bio: LOTUS BOY is a trans, nonbinary, disabled Chinese-American drag king, poet, and performance artist.
Website: kinglotusboy.com
Sunday, June 12, 2022
1 pm PT
Euphoria and despair line the marrow of San Francisco’s first Chinese female physician and her insatiable desire for women, drugs, sapphic surgeries, and queer flights of fancy.
Content Warning: Flashing images, drug use/substance abuse, despair
Bio: TT Takemoto is a queer Japanese American experimental filmmaker exploring same-sex intimacy within Asian and Asian American history.
Website: http://www.cfmdc.org/filmmaker/7572
Sunday, June 12, 2022
1 pm PT
Archival practices stream and sway in a bodily altar dedicated to New Orleans spiritualists.
Genre: Experimental
Bio: Sensuous gatherer of archival remains. Bay Area born living in New Orleans, pondering ancestral relations across time and space.
Instagram: @notyouraveragehousedyke
Sunday, June 12, 2022
1 pm PT
As they traverse Indigeneity, queerness, and anti-Black racism, an African Indigenous Two Spirit stitches traditional strategies for survival.
Content Warning: Intergenerational trauma, racism, mention of violence, transphobia, homophobia
Bio: An African/Indigenous-descended Two Spirit artist, performer, filmmaker, and ceremonialist.
Website: http://www.drjenniferlisavest.com/
Sunday, June 12, 2022
1 pm PT
Freedom throbs along a sensory journey of poetry, bondage, and impact play for two Black nonbinary queers.
Content Warning: BDSM, impact play, rope play
Bio: BEYONDEEP is a duo of queer and trans Black artists who use multimedia to represent, empower, and give joy to their community. They feel it is essential to create space for the unconventional, controversial, and the erotic.
Website: bit.ly/beyondeep
Saturday, June 11, 2022
7 pm PT
