2020 16th Annual San Francisco International Queer Women of Color Film Festival
2020 16th Annual San Francisco International Queer Women of Color Film Festival
Wilting words grow to acceptance for a Latina mother and child.
Content Warning: Emotional abuse, mentions of homophobia
Bio: Beatriz Cadenas is an independent filmmaker, pomegranate lover, and educator.
Black families blossom despite the drought of gentrification.
Content Warning: Displacement
Bio: Tanea Lunsford Lynx is a fourth-generation Black San Franciscan on both sides.
Instagram: @tanealunsfordlynx
Website: tanealunsfordlynx.com
Queer joy and resilience weed out abuse, trauma, and transphobia.
Content Warning: Swearing, misgendering, transphobia, mentions of abusive relationship
Bio: Jordana Valerie is a Toronto-born, U.S.-raised filmmaker, dog mom, and aspiring graphic novelist passionate about empowering marginalized communities through art.
A nonbinary Latinx prunes away the loss of a forced separation.
Content Warning: Fear, children crying, mentions of deportation and forced family separation
Bio: Mateo Vargas is a queer non-binary Mexican-American filmmaker and visual artist, focusing on the intersections of identity, borders, and mixed Latinx heritage. Their work seeks to deconstruct the colonial politicization/oppression of the body and indoctrination of the mind.
Instagram: @_mateo_vargas
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/mate0vargas
Afro-Indigenous people thrive after generations of displacement.
Bio: Centered in ceremony, Vivian uses art to share sacred stories—stories left from ancestors to be heard.
Instagram: @ceremony.vee
An Asian woman transplants herself in time before broken hearts.
Bio: Kristal is an independent filmmaker, writer, and activist from Singapore, currently living in Oakland, CA. Her work deals with issues of a society in transition—from a predominantly white heterosexual culture to one whose growing QPOC population deconstructs mainstream media and the Hollywood machine. Kristal also works as a Social Producer at ViacomCBS in San Francisco, CA.
Instagram: @_bbk3
Website: https://kristalnurchan.myportfolio.com/
A genderfluid queer Pilipinx grafts complexity onto their lush life.
Content Warning: References to discomfort with gender identity
Bio: MK Veniegas Isip is an Oakland based visual artist who has been refining their skills in videography since 2016. MK has been creating since their hands first grasped the sand outside their provincial, rural home in Pampanga, Philippines. Their mission is to lovingly, artfully, and rightfully fight for people to stay woke, using storytelling as a platform to amplify voices and narratives of the underrepresented.
Instagram: @mkvisip
Website: www.mkvisip.com
A nonbinary Latinx cultivates abundant pleasure through food.
Content Warning: Not fitting into family expectations, emotional pain
Bio: Marbella Noble believes in laughter and creativity as life-affirming practices. Mel is a queer non-binary educator and media maker, who is dedicated to creating spaces of pleasure through different artistic mediums.
A queer Sikh Punjabi woman sows healing for her younger self.
Content Warning: References to childhood trauma, abuse, and violence
Bio: Navkiran "Navi" Kaur: doula, bookworm, lover of food. Navi has made it her life’s mission to feel all emotions as deeply as she can.
Instagram: @nvknkr
Twitter: @nvknkr
