GLAAD published an article about JEWELLE: A Just Vision, a new documentary by Madeleine Lim. The documentary premiered at our 18th annual International Queer Women of Color Film Festival, and continues to screen at film festivals around the world.

“Jewelle On The Big Screen: “You Have to Imagine A Better World to Get to A Better World” A new documentary profiles the poet, playwright, activist and icon who co-founded GLAAD”
Published June 10, 2022

Read the article: https://www.glaad.org/blog/jewelle-big-screen

“’There are not very many documentaries about queer women of color, anything at all, despite the fact that queer women of color have been at the frontlines of community organizing and activism for decades and decades,’ Lim told me in a joint Zoom conversation with Gomez. Lim is also one of the film’s directors of photography and the founding executive director of the Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project (QWOCMAP).

‘You have to imagine a better world to get to a better world,’ says Gomez in the film, ‘which is why I love writing.’”

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