Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project
For General Operating Support
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Amount$50,000
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Program
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Date Awarded2/4/2019
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Term22.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Organization
Strategies
Overview
Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project (QWOCMAP) creates, exhibits, and distributes films that authentically reflect the lives of queer women, gender variant, and transgender people of color. Each year, the organization provides an in-depth training program for community members to become filmmakers through its no-cost Filmmaker Training Program. QWOCMAP provides film curatorial services and educational packages that include screenings, workshops, classroom visits, and lectures to academic institutions for filmmakers, many of whom are showing their work publicly for the first time. In addition, the organization draws more than 2,000 people to its free annual film festival and distributes and screens QWOCMAP films globally to film festivals, theaters, and other supportive organizations.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.qwocmap.org
Address
Tides Center, The Presidio 1014 Torney Avenue, Suite 111, San Francisco, CA, 94129, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project (QWOCMAP) creates, exhibits, and distributes new films that authentically reflect the lives of queer women of color. Its wide-ranging programs serve a pan-ethnic, multiracial, gender diverse community, exemplified by its annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival, which typically premieres more than 30 films each year. Support for QWOCMAP aligns with the Performing Arts Program’s Communities strategy.
for a capacity building project
Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project (QWOCMAP) is a training ground, incubation space, and exhibition and distribution platform for new film that addresses social justice and develops community through arts activism in a traditionally underserved population. QWOCMAP programs empower creative women in the Bay Area, developing their artistic voices, providing opportunities to develop film projects and screening the work with other films from around the globe. This Organizational Effective award for QWOCMAP will support efforts to develop a strategic communications plan, incorporating a new data management system and building a platform for online distribution.
for general operating support
The Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project (QWOCMAP) fosters and incubates the filmmaking efforts of a collective of women whose work addresses social justice and arts activism, and fosters the development of new voices in an historically under-recognized, but vitally integral, part of our community. Through the production, exhibition, and distribution of new films, QWOCMAP’s work invests in the fertile creative community of queer women, and cultivates learning and understanding in the greater community. Recognized for its annual film festival, which is offered free, QWOCMAP’s programming also includes no-cost intensive training workshops. Continued investment in QWOCMAP would strengthen its Filmmaker Training Program and leverage broader funding support to strengthen its organizational capacity.
