2026 Queer Asian World Cinema Satellite Screening
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Presented by: Chinese Culture Center and Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project (QWOCMAP)
Date and Time:
Saturday, July 4, 2026, 2-3:30 pm
90-minute screening
Location:
For the 2nd year, QWOCFF is back at the Chinese Culture Center in San Francisco’s Chinatown, the site of the first American flag when California joined the U.S. as a state. This screening is a way to understand the 250th anniversary of the country. It is crucial to understand Asian diasporas as a part of this country’s history. LBTQIA+ Asian people are important to the future of what this collection of states could be in the future, especially with Native sovereignty that redresses the theft of Indigenous lands and Black liberation that repairs the legacy of kidnapping indigenous Africans from their lands.
Chinese Culture Center is proud to welcome Queer Asian World Cinema back for a second year in partnership with Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project (QWOCMAP), presenting a special satellite screening at CCC. This 90-minute program features four short films from QWOCMAP’s Queer Asian World Cinema series, centering queer, trans, and nonbinary Asian and diasporic stories. Through memories of nightlife, friendship, self-discovery, and community organizing, the films reflect the many ways LGBTQIA+ communities create space for one another, honor collective histories, and imagine freer futures.
All films include open captions, with audio description available. To request audio description support, please select “Audio Description support” when completing the RSVP.
Masks are required for this event, there will be free masks available onsite. The venue is ADA accessible. The screening will take place at 41 Ross Alley, San Francisco Chinatown, an off-site location of the Chinese Cultural Center.
About the Films
Stay Hot Stay Chill
Director: Nancy YiYu Chen
Year of Completion: 2024 | Runtime: 0:18:48
Language: Mandarin Chinese
English Open Captions
Country of Production: Taiwan
As she prepares the 20th anniversary of LEZS Party, founder AJ reflects on two decades of creating Taiwan’s most iconic lesbian gathering, revealing how one woman’s nightlife vision became a cultural force for visibility and equality.
Memoria
Director: Ross Vasallo
Year of Completion: 2025 | Runtime: 0:16:28
Language: Tagalog, English
English Open Captions
Country of Production: Philippines
Under the weight of religious expectation, a teenager sifts through layered memories and reflections until they finally see the person they have always been.
Stroke of Dreams by Tracy Nguyen
Director: Tracy Nguyen
Year of Completion: 2025 | Runtime: 00:06:26
Language: English
English Open Captions
Country of Production: United States
Two best friends share joyful, summer rituals before the start of their first college semester.
Because of You: A History of Kilawin Kolektibo
Director: Barbara Malaran, Desireena Almoradie
Year of Completion: 2025 | Runtime: 00:40
Language: English, Tagalog
English Open Captions
Country of Production: Canada, Philippines, United State
Joyful, raw, revolutionary: Because of You: A History of Kilawin Kolektibo tells the remarkable story of queer Filipnxs who, in the 1990s, against a racist, lesbophobic backdrop, came together for the first time in NYC to create a safe and loving community.
About 41 Ross
41 Ross is a vibrant experimental studio in San Francisco’s historic Ross Alley, led by the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco (CCC). Originally founded in 2014 through a groundbreaking collaboration between CCC and the Chinatown Community Development Center (CCDC) to be a place where art, culture, and social practice intersect to empower community voices, activate place and cultivate a sense of belonging. Today, 41 Ross powerfully amplifies the voices of LGBTQ2S+, BIPOC, and other marginalized communities through creative experimentation and cultural engagement.
More than just an art studio, 41 Ross is a thriving hub for makers, entrepreneurs, educators, and community members. It offers a wide range of programming—film screenings, pop-up events, workshops, panel discussions, and interactive creative sessions—that encourage collaboration, learning, and cultural exchange.
About Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco (CCC)
The Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco (CCC) has been at the forefront of uplifting and transforming Chinatown through the arts for over 60 years, both as a vibrant neighborhood and a metaphor for the immigrant experience. Founded in 1965 during the civil rights movement, CCC emerged as a response to racism and displacement. What began as a hard-won cultural space has since evolved into a dynamic hub that boldly shifts narratives, supports groundbreaking and innovative art, and advances social justice.
CCC is dedicated to amplifying marginalized voices, reclaiming and reimagining public space, and strengthening the community through boundary-pushing art exhibitions, festivals, and educational programs. Signature initiatives include C.H.A.T. Chinatown History Art Tours, the acclaimed XianRui Artist Series, and the 41 Ross Artist-in-Residence program. With strategic locations across Chinatown, including Kearny Street, Ross Alley, and the newly acquired 667 Grant Ave, CCC continues to fearlessly champion immigrant, BIPOC, and LGBTQIA2S+ voices and rights. Recognized by the Andy Warhol Foundation, Rainin Foundation and other major foundations and supporters, CCC is celebrating its milestone 60th anniversary with transformative events lik
About QWOCMAP
QWOCMAP fuels creativity and leadership for LBTQIA+ BIPOC filmmakers, sparks new films, galvanizes collective action, forges solidarity, and strengthens movements. Founded in 2000, QWOCMAP is a nonprofit organization that funds, creates, exhibits, and distributes films that authentically reflect the lives of queer women of color both cisgender & transgender, and nonbinary, gender nonconforming, and transgender people of color of any orientation. Over 500 films have been created through our award-winning Filmmaker Training Program, the largest catalog of films by LBTQIA+ BIPOC filmmakers in the world. QWOCMAP presents the annual San Francisco International Queer Women of Color Film Festival, and provides critical funding for LBTQIA+ BIPOC filmmakers. Our vision nurtures filmmaker-activists as leaders of social justice movements that incorporate the power of art as cultural resistance and cultural resilience, cultural reclamation and cultural renewal.
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