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Wednesday, March 31, 2010 Media Contact: Kebo Drew (415) 752-0868 or events@qwocmap.org
* www.qwocmap.org For Immediate Release Queer
Women of Color Media Arts Project Founder Honored with 2010 Phoenix Award San Francisco – On Saturday April 3, Asian Pacific
Islander Queer Women & Transgender Community (APIQWTC) will honor filmmaker,
community activist, and educator Madeleine Lim with the 2010 Phoenix Award. Each year, APIQWTC recognizes an individual who has
made outstanding commitment serving the Asian Pacific Islander Community. Previous award winners include public
figures such as renowned journalist Helen Zia and Reverend Trinity Ordona. This
year the Phoenix Award celebrates Lim’s tremendous contributions as an
independent filmmaker. The award
is also a tribute to her service as the founder of the Queer Women of Color
Media Arts Project (QWOCMAP), which provides free professional filmmaking
workshops and presents the free annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival in
San Francisco. At the age of 23, she escaped persecution by the
Singaporean government for her organizing work as a young lesbian
artist-activist. Ten years later,
she created Sambal
Belacan in San Francisco, a film that is still banned in Singapore
for its exploration of race, sexuality and nationality. As one of a small number of queer women
of color filmmakers on the international film festival circuit, she saw that
only queer women of color would tell their own authentic stories. Lim founded QWOCMAP with the belief
that a community of queer women of color artist-activist leaders could change
the face of filmmaking, community building, and the larger society. Lim is an award-winning filmmaker with more than 20
years of experience as a producer, director, editor, and cinematographer. Her lyrical films couple poignant
visuals with contemporary themes: lesbians of color, survivors of domestic
violence, and immigrants living in America. Her films have been featured at sold-out theaters at
international film festivals around the world, museums, universities and
broadcast on PBS. Lim won the 1997
Award of Excellence from the San Jose Film & Video Commission's Joey Awards
and the 1998 National Educational Media Network Bronze Apple Award. From 2000
to 2003, she was California Arts Council Artist-in-Residence. In 2004 and 2005, the SF Board of
Supervisors awarded Madeleine a Certificate of Honor in public recognition of
distinction and merit for outstanding service to the people of San
Francisco. In 2005, Madeleine
received the LGBT Local Hero Award from KQED-TV in recognition of her
leadership of QWOCMAP and her dedicated service to queer women of color. She was the featured filmmaker at the
2006 APAture Asian American Arts Festival and was twice-awarded the highly
competitive SFAC Individual Artist Commission for her new film. As stated by
APIQWTC, Lim’s accomplishments are best
described by one of her former students: “As
a mentor, Madeleine provides the utmost guidance and care to all her
students, serving the community through believing in all of our voices.
Through
realizing her own struggles as a filmmaker early on in her career, she
has
provided to create challenge into empowerment, by giving the gift of
filmmaking to queer women of color in the Bay Area. As a mentee of Madeleine, I personally am moved by her work, and her tremendous generosity and respect she gives to all people. She serves not only as a role model, but actively embodies--through her art, work, and mentorship--her commitment to serving the Asian Pacific Islander Queer Women and Transgender Community.”
For
more details:
Who:
Madeleine Lim presented with 2010 Phoenix Award What:
APIQWTC Lunar New Year Banquet When:
Saturday, April 3, 2010 Time:
6 – 11 p.m. Where: Legendary Palace 708
Franklin Street Oakland, CA For
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