What We Do
Workshops, trainings, and consulting on film practice, equity, accessibility, and resource mobilization, grounded in QWOCMAP's Film AS Movement framework.
Build Infrastructure That
Serves Justice
Workshops, trainings, and consulting rooted in over 25 years of filmmaking and social justice practice.
Art with Purpose
Consultations & Trainings
We bring an intersectional queer and trans feminist of color approach that blends cultural humility with rigorous artistic craft.
Our Approach
Rooted in the lineages and lived experience of queer and trans people of color, our work with your organization builds cultural humility alongside practical skills. Let's go beyond compliance checklists.
How We Work
We move at the pace your community needs, from a single workshop to a year-long consulting engagement. You bring the context; we bring the facilitation, materials, and follow-through.
Engagement model
Two Ways to Work Together
Whether you need a quick deep-dive or a long-term strategy partner, we have an engagement model that fits your needs.
Workshops & Trainings
A one-time session or short series that gives your team concrete information, frameworks, and practical examples, so you can develop a plan and make choices for your practice, program, organization, or classroom.
Consulting
A longer, multi-session engagement. We partner with you to develop plans, build your thought leadership, and meet your goals, with a range of options to fit your organization's scale and timeline.
Where Creativity Meets Collaboration
Consultation & Training Services
Comprehensive strategic support tailored for organizations committed to radical inclusion and sustainable growth.
Disability Justice & Accessibility
How the principles of disability justice can be incorporated into filmmaking, arts and culture, and organizational practice beyond a post-production add-on; disability justice as foundational and integral to the work.
Book TrainingResource Mobilization
Mobilizing resources for your event, program, or organization. 1:1 support to shift from fundraising to a sustainable resourcing strategy centering mutually beneficial and strategic community partnerships.
Book TrainingNarrative Power & Film
How to work with movement organizations and filmmakers to build narrative power for your communities.
Book TrainingValues Practice
How to create practices that are not just a reflection of your values but the embodiment of them.
Book TrainingEquitable Film Practices
Grounding creative practice, from research to sets to distribution, in equity. Who is included, who gains access, and who benefits.
Conflict Resolution
Strategies for navigating interpersonal and structural conflicts on set and in production organizations, building toward sustainable and collaborative creative environments.
Resourcing Film
Approaches to financing, budgeting, and sustaining independent film projects — from micro-budget production through to larger-scale funding ecosystems and grant pipelines.
Distribution & Festival Strategy
Navigating festival circuits, self-distribution, hybrid release models, and building a lasting audience for independent and documentary work beyond the premiere.
Arts & Culture Accessibility
Expanding who can participate in and experience film — including physical access, language, economic barriers, and community-centered programming models that prioritize inclusion.
Intensive Filmmaking Workshop
Film & Freedom Academy — For Your Organization
Bring our intensive filmmaking workshop to your organization or institution. Participants complete a 5-minute film as individuals or co-directing pairs. They leave with concrete technical skills, practical artistic knowledge, and leadership tools that stay rooted in your community.
As part of building narrative power, this workshop equips participants with the skills to create new films and tell their own stories. We tailor the workshop to your community and context, and we've brought FFA to organizations serving populations beyond our core LBTQIA+ BIPOC communities.
Additional Services
Film Feedback
1:1 feedback on your film from award-winning filmmaker Madeleine Lim and the QWOCMAP Productions team. Development, editing, and more. Reach out for a quote.
Panel Moderation
Based on years of experience, bring QWOCMAP in to moderate your panel or discussion.
Trusted by
Previous Clients Include
Hear how QWOCMAP’s consultations and trainings transform LBTQIA BIPOC filmmakers, audiences, and communities.
Help power our mission
Ready to make an impact?
Join the movement of organizations using film for cultural resistance and community building.
Flexible Scheduling
We accommodate various time zones and event formats.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
About bringing QWOCMAP in for trainings, workshops, or consulting
Fill out the Consultations & Trainings Request Form above with a few details about your organization, what you're looking for, and your timeline. We'll reach out to schedule an intake conversation.
Yes. We've led workshops and consulting engagements across the U.S. and internationally. Travel is scoped into the project when relevant.
Pricing is handled case by case. It depends on the topic, format, duration, group size, travel, and whether it's a single session or a longer engagement. Everything is scoped through conversation. Reach out and we'll follow up to discuss.
Film Feedback is 1:1 feedback on your film from award-winning filmmaker Madeleine Lim and the QWOCMAP Productions team. We can support development, editing, and other stages of your project. Reach out and we'll share details and a quote.
FFA for Organizations is our intensive filmmaking workshop brought directly to your organization or institution. Participants complete a 5-minute film as individuals or co-directing pairs and leave with concrete technical skills, practical artistic knowledge, and leadership tools rooted in your community. We tailor the workshop to your community and context, and we've brought it to organizations serving populations beyond our core LBTQIA+ BIPOC communities.
For workshops and trainings, we recommend reaching out at least 8–12 weeks in advance. For consulting engagements or Film & Freedom Academy for Organizations, plan for 3–6 months of lead time. We'll do our best to accommodate shorter timelines when we can.
Group size depends on the topic and format. For most trainings, we can work with groups of 10 to 30. For deeper engagements like Film & Freedom Academy for your organization, cohorts are smaller, around 10 participants. We'll discuss what fits your goals during intake.
Both. We've led workshops and consulting engagements virtually and in person, and we can combine the two where it serves your goals. Online sessions change how we teach, so we'll talk through the format that fits your group during intake.
Yes. Every engagement is tailored. We work with film and media studies programs, nonprofits, foundations, arts organizations, and community groups, and we've brought our trainings to audiences beyond our core LBTQIA+ BIPOC communities. We start with a conversation about what your organization is working on and what you're trying to change.
A workshop or training is a one-time session or short series; your team leaves with concrete information, frameworks, and practical examples they can use to make choices and develop plans. Consulting is a longer, multi-session engagement where we partner with you over time to develop plans, build your thought leadership, and meet specific goals. If you're not sure which fits, we'll help you figure that out in an intake conversation.
