The San Francisco Bay Times published an article about QWOCMAP’s 25th anniversary, written by Managing Director T. Kebo Drew, CFRE.
“Why Our Stories Matter More Than Ever: QWOCMAP at 25”
Published June 12, 2025
Read the article: https://sfbaytimes.com/why-our-stories-matter-more-than-ever-qwocmap-at-25/
“Our film festival is unique: it’s completely free, fully accessible, and open to everyone, with ASL interpretation, audio description, open captions, and COVID-conscious protocols. We believe our community deserves good things—including the chance to see ourselves as the complex, powerful people we’ve always been.
Queer and trans stories have survived book burnings and budget cuts, library raids, and legislative attacks. Our dreams will survive what’s coming. When we’re erased from the status quo version of history, we stitch fragments of the past into vibrant new stories. When someone attempts to silence us, we sing louder. When they try to steal our futures, we dream bigger, brighter, bolder.
Come dream with us. All of our lives depend on it.”
KPFA’s Womens Magazine broadcasted an interview with founder and Executive/Artistic Director Madeleine Lim about our 21st annual International Queer Women of Color Film Festival.
“Celebrate Queer Pride with SF Frameline and QWOCMAP film festivals”
Published June 9, 2025
Listen to interview here: https://kpfa.org/episode/womens-magazine-june-9-2025/
“This Monday June 9th at 1-2pm pm on KPFA Radio’s Women’s Magazine I will be talking about the two most important Queer film festivals in the U.S., the San Francisco Frameline LGBTQI + film festival and QWOCMAP…In the second half of the show I talk to Madeleine Lim, founder and executive director of the Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project or QWOCMAP. QWOCMAP presents their 21st annual International Queer Women of Color Film Festival this year and it is offered for free, and runs from June 13th-15th at San Francisco’s historic Presidio Theatre in the Presidio National Park. And we talk to Kirthi Nath who is an award winning South Asian lesbian filmmaker, whose lushly beautiful and touching film PARAMITA is being featured at QWOCMAP. For more info check out the website at qwocmap.org/festival."
The SF/Arts posted about our 21st annual International Queer Women of Color Film Festival.
“2025 International Queer Women of Color Film Festival”
Published June 2025
Read the article: https://sfarts.org/event/2025-international-queer-women-of-color-film-festival-51YbMCK3QSGSx25zBsh1qK
“The fest’s theme, “Fierce Determination,” says it all about a carefully curated program embracing an array of subject matter, relationships, travails, cultures and fights against adversity with an emphasis on variety and self-acceptance– on earth and other places. Take futuristic excursions like “Mother of the Closet,” where a queer black student and her lover are transported to another dimension, and “I Am Glitching,” in which a robot designed for peak perfection finds beauty in flaws.”
48 Hills published an article about QWOCMAP’s first-ever satellite screening of our International Queer Women of Color Film Festival—Queer Asian World Cinema, part of San Francisco’s first Chinatown Pride celebration.
“BIG WEEK: First-ever Chinatown Pride procession presents local heritage, al fresco drag”
Published May 21, 2025
Read the article: https://48hills.org/2025/05/big-week-first-ever-chinatown-pride-procession-presents-local-heritage-al-fresco-drag/?ref=newsletters.48hills.org
“This first-time special Chinatown Pride, Bay Area QTAPI week, and AANHPI Heritage Month program by International Queer Women of Color Film Festival was so popular it sold out well in advance—but never fear, because the selection of shorts is available for free online! Thusly, you will not have to miss out on such gems as Myra Angeline Soriaso’s A Catholic Schoolgirl, in which a young Filipina pines for a nun, nor the heartbreak of Bùi Phương Thảo’s Mom, I just broke up with a girl.
