QWOCMAP STAFF


Executive/Artistic Director
Madeleine Lim

At the age of 23, Madeleine Lim escaped persecution by the Singaporean government for her organizing work as a young lesbian artist-activist. Ten years later, she created Sambal Belacan in San Francisco, a film that is still banned in Singapore for its exploration of race, sexuality and nationality. As one of a small number of queer women of color filmmakers on the international film festival circuit, she saw that only queer women of color would tell their own authentic stories. She created Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project (QWOCMAP) with the belief that a community of artist-activist leaders could change the face of filmmaking and the social justice movement. As founding Executive/Artistic Director, Lim directs organizational vision and provides artistic direction for all QWOCMAP programs.  She is an award-winning filmmaker with more than 20 years of experience as a producer, director, editor, and cinematographer. Her films have screened at sold-out theaters at international film festivals around the world, including the Vancouver International Film Festival, Mill Valley Film Festival, and Amsterdam Amnesty International Film Festival. Her work has also been featured at museums and universities, and broadcast on PBS to over 2.5 million viewers. She holds a B.A. in Cinema from San Francisco State University, where she was awarded Outstanding Cinema Student of the Year. Lim’s films have received awards from the prestigious and highly competitive Paul Robeson Independent Media Fund, as well as the Frameline Film Completion Fund. She received the 1997 Award of Excellence from the San Jose Film & Video Commission’s Joey Awards and won the 1998 National Educational Media Network Bronze Apple Award. From 2000 to 2003, she was a California Arts Council Artist-in-Residence. Under Lim’s leadership, QWOCMAP’s Filmmaker Training Program was awarded 2003 Best Video Program by San Francisco Community Media. In 2005, Lim received the LGBT Local Hero Award from KQED-TV in recognition of her leadership of QWOCMAP and her dedicated service to the queer women of color community. The Featured Filmmaker at the 2006 APAture Asian American Arts Festival, Lim has twice been awarded the San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist Commission for her new film about her mother and other girls adopted from China. She has won the 2007 DreamSpeaker Award from Purple Moon Dance Project, and the 2010 Phoenix Award from Asian Pacific Islander Women & Transgender Community (APIQWTC).

Managing Director
T. Kebo Drew

Drew directs organizational development, strategic thinking, fundraising and communications for QWOCMAP. She joined QWOCMAP as its second staff member in 2007 as a Horizons Foundation Rickey William Leader Fellow, when she developed and expanded the QWOCMAP Community Partner program. She also conceived QWOCMAP’s signature presentation "Reels of Resistance: Film IS Social Justice Activism." Drew has professionally managed development, operations and events for corporations, community, arts and nonprofit organizations for over 15 years. She is also a member of the Frameline (SF LGBT Film Festival) Board of Directors. She holds a B.P.A. in Nonprofit Administration from the University of San Francisco. Born in Memphis, Drew is a 2nd generation activist. She is also an award-winning poet, dancer and writer who has performed throughout the U.S., Latin America and Europe. A Cave Canem Poetry Fellow, Drew has won the Audre Lorde/Pat Parker Award and the Astraea Emerging Lesbian Writers Award. She has also won the Irene Weed Dance Award and Robert Kuykendall Dance Scholarship.

Program Manager, Filmmaker Training Program
Liliana M. Hueso

Liliana M. Hueso manages QWOCMAP’s award-winning Filmmaker Training Program. She completed the QWOCMAP Introductory and Intermediate workshops, where she created the films Las Mujeres de Mi Vida and Who Is He? She was mentored as a Workshop Instructor through QWOCMAP’s inaugural youth development program. In addition, Hueso coordinates QWOCMAP Productions and the technical aspects of the Queer Women of Color Film Festival, which includes management of the Technical Crew. She also serves as a project manager for the Distribution Program, for which she coordinates QWOCMAP curatorial contracts for film festivals, arts groups, educational institutions and community organizations. She is currently coordinating the release of QWOCMAP's Reels of Resistance DVD & Study Guide series. An independent filmmaker, Hueso earned a B.A. in Mass Communications and worked as a TV producer and camerawoman with Telemundo KSTS Channel 48 in San Jose for 4 years. Hueso is also the former Co-Chair of the San Francisco LGBT Community Center’s Latino Forum.

Teaching Assistant, Filmmaker Training Program
Emily Encina

Through QWOCMAP's Youth Leadership Program, Emily Encina is being mentored as a youth Instructor for the Filmmaker Training Program. She conceived and directed the "Giving Is Sexy" video for QWOCMAP's 10th Anniversary campaign. She is on the crew of QWOCMAP Productions, for which she taught a PSA-making workshop for the National Sexuality Research Center’s Summer Institute. She is also part of the Technical Crew for the Queer Women of Color Film Festival. Encina completed the QWOCMAP Introductory workshop, where she created her film On My Way. She was nominated for the Mario Savio Young Activist Award for her work as a teacher and youth facilitator. She holds a B.A. in Feminist and Community Studies with an emphasis on documentary video production from UC Santa Cruz. Her background in activism and the arts has included projects that include theater, spoken word and music as a means for empowerment and education.

Teaching Assistant, Filmmaker Training Program
Caroline Le

Through QWOCMAP's Youth Leadership Program, Caroline Le is being mentored as a youth Instructor for the Filmmaker Training Program. She is on the crew of QWOCMAP Productions, for which she is working on a project for the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. Le completed the QWOCMAP Introductory and Intermediate workshops, where she created the films Things I’ll Never Say and Too Much Plaid. She holds a B.A. in Radio, Television and Film Production at San Jose State University and her M.A. in Visual and Media Art at Emerson College in Boston. She received the Tang Scholarship and was nominated for Best Director at the 2008 Sundeis Film Festival for her film The Things Stolen.

Communications Associate
Margaret Rhee

Margaret Rhee is responsible for implementing QWOCMAP’s communications strategies, including press, publicity and outreach. She writes for ReelBites, QWOCMAP's quarterly e-newsletter, and the QWOCstar! blog. Rhee created All of Me: Creating an Asian American Drag King Troupe through the QWOCMAP Filmmaker Training Program. She holds a B.A. in English/Creative Writing from University of Southern California and a M.A. in Ethnic Studies from San Francisco State University. Currently, Rhee is a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Ethnic Studies and New Media at UC Berkeley. She is an award-winning writer and scholar who has edited and been published in numerous anthologies and journals. She has also written for mainstream and ethnic press including Back Stage, a national actor’s trade publication, YOLK magazine and Asian American Poetry and Writing, a literary arts journal.

Web Designer
Jennifer Greene

Jennifer Greene manages the QWOCMAP website. She is a hapa-Chinese web developer, who has worked with computers and graphic arts for several decades.

Graphic Designer
dendesign

Den is responsible for QWOCMAP branding, and designs all promotional materials, including the Festival Program Book, posters and postcards.

 

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