Reel it in before cuffing season with some communal love for local filmmakers. Come celebrate Black Cinema Collective’s 2023 Microgrant Awardees!
Taylor-Nicole
Leah Teklemariam
Amber Flame
Cacey Williams
Finger food and drinks will be provided. DJ Chari will be onsite playing music that moves us!
Sunday, November 19
5:00 – 7:00 PM PST
Northwest Film Forum
Lobby & Cinema 2
ABOUT THE GRANTEES
Taylor-Nicole (She/They) is a Black Queer teaching artist born and raised in Detroit, MI. Their art mediums include theater, voice acting, storytelling, African drumming, puppetry, dance, and mixed media visual arts. Taylor-Nicole has over 12 years of working with youth of all ages, and teaches performing arts with various Seattle-based organizations like Seattle Children's Theater and Arts Corps. She can be seen on episodes of Look, Listen + Learn, a local (Seattle) Black-owned children's show! Taylor-Nicole's philosophy is to curate safe and accessible creative spaces for historically excluded folks, integrate arts and nature focused curriculum, and use art as a tool for healing and well-being. Taylor-Nicole has dreams of completing their original documentary "I AM NOT YOUR MAMMY," and producing culturally relevant children's media. She loves Halloween, being on any type of wheels (roller skates, longboard, bicycle), and her two kitties Babydoll and Kiki. Visit www.taylor-nicole.me for more.
Leah Teklemariam is a second-generation American born to Eritrean immigrants who fled their country due to warfare. As a child and into adulthood, Leah took an interest in the spotlight of performing arts through theater and acting. Always fascinated by film and the art of telling a story, her newfound interest in behind-the-scenes work has sparked her passion to be a storyteller. As someone who understands having to explain her multicultural identity and Eritrea's autonomy, she hopes to create films that allow the subject to be in charge of the narrative. Through her work, she intends to spark conversation about how the history of many nations and peoples at the benefit of higher powers has been muddled and misunderstood.
Amber Flame is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, activist and educator, whose work garnered residencies with Hedgebrook, Vermont Studio Center, and more. A former church kid from the Southwest, Flame’s work first full-length poetry collection, Ordinary Cruelty, published in 2017 through Write Bloody Press. Flame’s second book, apocrifa, is a love story told in verse of a non-gendered lover and their beloved, inspired by the Bible’s Song of Songs, and launched May 2023 from Red Hen Press. Amber Flame is a queer Black dandy mama who falls hard for a jumpsuit and some fresh kicks. Visit theamberflame.com for more.
ABOUT THE DJ
Chari Glogovac-Smith is an Emmy Nominated composer, performer, and intermedia artist.
Using an evolving mixture of traditional and experimental techniques, Chari is dynamically exploring and illustrating various counterpoints between the human experience and society. Chari’s recent works have posed questions about empathy, conflict, landscapes and cultural connections, the archive, healing, listening, and time.
ACCESSIBILITY
Ticketing, concessions, cinemas, restrooms, and public edit lab are located on Northwest Film Forum’s ground floor, which is wheelchair accessible. Read more about NW Film Forum’s Accessibility Info & Sensory Access Document.
The 2023 Black Cinema Collective Filmmaker Microgrant is organized by BCC lead organizer Berette S Macaulay with development and management support by BCC co-organizers Savita Krishnamoorthy and Abbie Altamirano, and NW Film Forum's Managing Director Christopher Day, and Executive Director Derek Edamura. Grant Media Open Call design by jas moultrie, Grant Media Announcement design by Chile.
The 2023 BCC Filmmaker Microgrant is supported with funding from our Creative Equity Grant through Seattle Foundation. Artist development package of awards is offered through generous co-sponsorship support by Northwest Film Forum. Our Grantee Celebration is supported by our C.A.R.E. Grant through Seattle Office of Arts & Culture.
