Selected Exhibition History

Sisters in Cinema – (2003 – present)

  • Black Starz! ENCORE World Premiere – February 8, 2004
  • TV ONE – Cable 2nd window 2006/7
  • St. Louis International Film Festival – Women in Film Award
  • Denver Pan African Film Festival – Dr. Beverly Robinson Renaissance Award
  • Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival – Winner Best Documentary
  • African Diaspora Film Festival – Audience Award- Best Film by a Women Director
  • Women in the Director’s Chair 22nd Int’l Film Festival – Women in Action Award
  • Pan African Film Festival – World Premiere, Los Angeles
  • Chicago International Film Festival
  • Inside Out Film Festival – Toronto
  • Outfest, Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
  • Images of Black Women Film Festival, UK
  • Webster Film Series- St. Louis
  • Women of Color Film Festival, Atlanta
  • Harlem Black Film Festival
  • Boston International Women’s Film Festival
  • Cleveland International Film Festival
  • Columbia College Chicago
  • The Women’s Film Festival – Brown University
  • Portland Art Museum Film Center
  • Black Film Center Archive
  • University of Rochester
  • Wexner Center for the Arts
  • Little Art Theater – Yellow Springs, OH
  • Studio Museum of Harlem
  • California State University- Fullerton
  • California State University- Northridge
  • Hayti Heritage Center Film Festival
  • University of Wisconsin – Kente Film Festival
  • National Museum of Women in the Arts
  • African American Women in Cinema Conference (work-in-progress)
  • Bravo, Cablecast on August 15, 1997 (Segment for Split Screen)
  • Independent Feature Channel – Cablecast October 27, 1997 (Segment for Split Screen)
  • Black Harvest Film Festival , The Film Center, August 1997 (Segment for Split Screen)
  • Antioch Documentary Institute, July 1997 (Segment for Split Screen)

The Taste of Dirt – (2002 – present)

  • Pan African Film Festival
  • Boston International Women’s Film Festival
  • Cleveland International Film Festival
  • African Diaspora Film Festival, New York
  • Black Harvest Film Festival, Chicago
  • Image Union WTTW Channel 11Chicago’s PBS affiliate

Living With Pride: Ruth Ellis @ 100 – (1999 – present)

  • 2001 GLAAD Media Awards – Winner – Best Documentary
  • 2000 Biennial – The Whitney Museum of American Art – NY
  • Frameline: San Francisco Gay & Lesbian Film Festival -Winner: Audience Award – Best Documentary
  • Outfest: Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival -Winner: Audience Award – Outstanding Video Doc
  • Toronto International Film Festival -Winner – Reel Black Film Award – Best Documentary
  • Reel Affirmations – Washington, D.C. – Winner – Directors Award – Best Documentary
  • Wingspan – Tucson, Arizona – Winner – Audience Award Best Documentary
  • Inside Out – Toronto Gay and Lesbian Film Festival – Winner – Audience Award Best Documentary
  • Austin Gay and Lesbian Film Festival – Winner – Best Documentary
  • 2001 Fresno Reel Pride Gay & Lesbian Film Festival – Winner – Best Documentary
  • 2001 Identites Queer Film Festival – Vienna – Winner – Best Documentary
  • Northampton Gay and Lesbian Film Festival – MA- Winner – Audience Award Best Documentary
  • The Sundance Channel – Cablecast, April and June 2000
  • WNET, KQED, WHYY – Local PBS Broadcasts June 2001
  • Black Harvest Film Festival , The Film Center – Chicago
  • Golden Threads, Provincetown, MA
  • Wayne State University, Detroit MI
  • Michigan Womens Music Festival
  • The Lincoln Library – Springfield, IL
  • Making Scenes 99 – Ottawa Canada
  • Milwaukee Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
  • Out At the Movies – San Antonio, TX
  • Western Illinois University – Macomb, IL
  • Image & Nation – Montreal, Canada
  • Image Out – Rochester New York
  • Tampa Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
  • Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival – Hot Springs, AR
  • Cleveland Public Theater Brother to Brother, Cleveland, OH
  • Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
  • Pittsburgh International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
  • Paris Lesbian Film Festival
  • Santa Barbara Lesbian & Gay Film Festival – Santa Barbara, CA
  • La Lesbian @ La Pena – Berkeley, CA
  • Pink Week – Amsterdam
  • Astraeas 13th Annual Lynn Campbell Memorial Fund Benefit – New York, NY
  • Office of Gay and Lesbian Affairs – University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • University of California, San Diego
  • Malcolm X Public Library, San Diego, CA
  • Aaron Davis Hall – City College, NY
  • Pan African Film Festival – Magic Johnson Theaters – Los Angeles, CA
  • University of Oregon Queer Film Festival – Eugene, OR
  • Mardi Gras Film Festival, Sydney, Australia
  • Emory University Gay and Lesbian Film Festival – Atlanta, GA
  • New York Gay and Lesbian Community Center
  • The Wexner Center, Columbus, Ohio
  • Immaginaria: 8th Intl Lesbian Film Festival- Bologna, Italy
  • Syracuse University – Syracuse, NY
  • Society for Cinema Studies Conference – Chicago
  • Association of Women Psychologist Conference – Salt Lake City, Utah
  • Las Cruces/Dona Ana Chapter – PFLAG – Las Cruces, New Mexico
  • Walker Art Center -Minneapolis, MN
  • Hampshire College – Amherst, MA
  • East Lansing Film Festival
  • Wastenaw Rainbow Action – Ypsilanti, MI
  • Wisconsin Film Festival – Madison
  • London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
  • Purdue University – Lafayette, IN
  • Singapore International Film Festival
  • Graduate Lambda Coalition at the University of Maryland
  • Black Queer Studies in the Millennium Conference – UNC, Chapel Hill
  • University of Detroit, Mercy
  • Boston International Festival of Women’s Cinema
  • Women of Color Film Festival – Berkeley, CA
  • Whitney Biennial Traveling Program at The Art Institute of Chicago
  • 2000 Charlotte Gay & Lesbian Film Series – Charlotte, NC
  • Silver Images Film Festival – Chicago Special AARP Outreach Screenings
  • Dykes Dont Hide: Keeping Our Herstory Out of the Closet, Seattle, WA
  • Boston Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
  • Astraea Foundation Benefit – Jewish Community Center – Washington, D.C.
  • Honolulu Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
  • London Lesbian Film Festival – Ontario, Canada
  • Lesbian and Gay Film Festival Milano – Bologna, Italy
  • Houston Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
  • The New Festival – New York Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
  • Connecticut Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
  • Provincetown Film Festival
  • Oslo Gay and Lesbian Film Festival – Norway
  • Kansas City – Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
  • Reel Queer – New Zealand Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
  • Black Arts Festival -Atlanta
  • Moving Dykes – Lesbos, Greece
  • Dublin Gay and Lesbian Film Festival – Ireland
  • Vancouver Queer Film Festival
  • Seoul Queer Film Festival – Korea
  • The Future of the Queer Past Conference – University of Chicago
  • Berlin Lesbian Film Festival
  • Hamburg Lesbian & Gay Film Festival , Germany
  • Great Plains Film Festival/University of Nebraska – Lincoln
  • Dallas Outtakes Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
  • University of Kentucky – Lexington
  • Queersicht- Bern, Switzerland
  • Hallwalls Gay and Lesbian Film Festival – Buffalo, NY
  • Long Island Gay and Lesbian Film Festival – NY
  • School of the Art Institute of Chicago
  • Beats, Bytes and the Big Screen Festival- London

Remembering Wei Yi-fang, Remembering Myself… (1996 – Present)

  • POV, PBS National Broadcast
  • Pan African Film Festival, Los Angeles, California
  • XIth Black International Cinema, Berlin
  • -Winner: Best Film/Video on Matters Relating to the Black Experience
  • Black Filmworks, Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, Inc., Oakland, California
  • Winner: Honorable Mention – Documentary Category Winner: 2nd Place Cross Cultural Category
  • Chicago International Film Festival: Intercom – Winner: Silver Hugo
  • USA Film Festival 18th Annual Short Film and Video Competition – Finalist
  • Monstra Internazionale Del Nuovo Cinema, Pesaro Film Festival, Pesaro, Italy
  • FESPACO 97: Pan African Film and Video Festival -Ougadougou, Burkina Faso, West Africa
  • Black Harvest Film Festival, The Film Center at the Art Institute of Chicago
  • Los Angeles Asian American Film & Video Festival
  • New York Gay and Lesbian Film & Video Festival
  • Charlotte Film and Video Festival, Charlotte, N.C.
  • Women of Color Film & Video Festival (University of California, Santa Cruz)
  • Rivertown Film Festival, Minnesota
  • Inside Out Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival, Toronto
  • San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival
  • Philadelphia Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival
  • Out on Screen: The Los Angeles Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival
  • Atlanta African Film Society at the Black Arts Festival
  • Nordic Glory: Scandinavian Women’s Film Festival, Finland
  • Boston Women’s Film Festival
  • Neighborhood Film/Video Project, Philadelphia, Pa
  • L.A. Freewaves
  • Women Make Waves, Taiwan (Toured the island)
  • International Documentary Association, Amsterdam
  • The Substation: 2nd Annual Documentary Film Festival, Singapore
  • Through My Sisters Eyes International Womens Film Festival, Denver
  • Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego
  • Grand Valley State University
  • San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival

Missing Relations (1994 – present)

  • Women in the Directors Chair, Chicago
  • Image Union WTTW Channel 11Chicago’s PBS affiliate
  • Free Speech TV, Cable Access Program, National Cablecast
  • Mill Valley Film Festival
  • Atlanta Black Arts Festival
  • Chicago Filmmakers
  • DuSable Museum of African American History, Chicago
  • Black Cinema House

The Cinematic Jazz of Julie Dash (1992 – present)

  • WTN/Lifestyle Television of Canada
  • African American Women in the Arts Festival
  • The Fifth Annual Women of Color Film and Video Festival
  • Chicago Filmmakers
  • Cornell Cinema, Cornell University
  • Neighborhood Film and Video Program, Philadelphia
  • Society for Cinema Studies Conference, New Orleans
  • Forum for Contemporary Art
  • DuSable Museum of African American History Chicago
  • Academia Sinica of the Republic of China
  • Medgar Evers College
  • Duke University
  • Boston College
  • Black Institute for Ethnic Studies
  • Indiana University
  • New York University
  • Columbia College, Chicago
  • James Madison University
  • Saint Marys College
  • National Library of Australia
  • Calvary Baptist Church, NY
  • Swamp Art Museum, Corpus Christi, TX

Monique (1991 – present)

  • 17th Annual Festival of Illinois Film & Video Artists
  • Winner – Best Documentary
  • 28th Chicago International Film Festival
  • Montreal Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
  • Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema
  • Los Angels Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
  • Los Angeles International Film Festival
  • Image Union WTTW Channel 11Chicago’s PBS affiliate
  • Feedback Channel 19Cable Access, Chicago
  • Women in the Director’s Chair 11th International Festival, Chicago
  • Fifth Annual Lesbian and Gay Studies Conference, Rutgers University
  • Princeton University Womens Studies Program
  • London International Film Festival
  • London Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
  • Outfest: Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
  • Mix: The New York Lesbian & Gay Experimental Film/Video Festival
  • Women and Invisibility, London
  • Chicago Filmmakers
  • University of California, Santa Barbara, Womens Studies Program
  • Indiana University, Bloomington
  • University of Rochester, Womens Studies Program
  • San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival