Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project - QWOCMAP

For 25 years, QWOCMAP has transformed filmmaking—historically art's most expensive medium—into a tool for liberation.

When they say we shouldn't exist, we make films that document our joy. When they try to erase our histories, we create archives of our resistance. When they cut funding for our stories, we build our own pathways to create.

Recently, $500,000 in already awarded funding was rescinded in an unprecedented move that has devastated QWOCMAP and other organizations that serve marginalized communities. This promised funding would have supported our Critical Juncture program for Black queer and trans filmmakers and our QTWork Apprenticeship for LBTQIA+ filmmakers of color. As arts funding is dismantled at federal, state, and local levels, as corporations retreat from supporting queer content, QWOCMAP's independent, community-centered approach becomes necessary for survival.

Your financial support helps create a sustainable ecosystem for LBTQIA+ BIPOC storytelling.

In the film world, producers make stories possible. They provide the resources, vision, and infrastructure that bring creative works to life. 

By becoming a Producer through our Producers Circle, you sustain a critical movement of storytelling that will outlast current political threats.

Our goal is to raise $75,000 by June 30 to ensure we can continue our essential work through our 25th anniversary year and beyond.

For 25 years, QWOCMAP has built the world's largest collection of films by queer and trans folks of color. Our impact includes:

• • 80 free professional workshops
• • 632 filmmakers trained across diverse communities
• • 507 films completed by LBTQIA+ BIPOC creators
• $226,125 in grants, commissions, and payments to Black filmmakers in 2024 alone

in love, light, laughter, and liberation,

Cassandra, Christina, Julia, Kebo, Lynn, Mad, Mel, Michelle, Nace, and Nat 

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