Film Director: Mika Imai
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QWOCMAP’s Encore Screening starts today!
It’s FREE, online, and available worldwide through next Friday, June 30 at 5pm PT.
You can register to watch dozens of films at your own pace, and cheer along with the audience during the opening remarks and Filmmaker Q&As. It’s all open captioned for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing, and the films are audio described for the Blind and Low Vision.
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Amid the COVID-19 state of emergency in Japan, this human drama traces the lives of four university students, both Deaf and hearing. Their joys and sorrows intersect in a complex four-way relationship.
Ginger & Honey Milk is a sensitive and tender depiction of different kinds of loneliness. The film beautifully sheds light on the language gap between the deaf and the hearing, being young in pandemic times, and the intersectional challenges that queer and deaf people face while navigating love and relationships.
Bio: Mika Imai is a Deaf and Non-binary filmmaker from Gunma, Japan. Imai has been filmmaking since the sixth grade and by sophomore year in high school was recognized with a best film award at the Yokohama Deaf Art Festival. In 2014 Imai received a best film award at the 2nd annual Irish Deaf Film Festival for the short film Sign Name Game. Imai’s earliest work relies upon visual action and Japanese Sign Language (JSL) as the vessels for expression. Imai’s first film to incorporate a soundtrack, Until Rainbow Dawn, debuted in 2019 at the 27th Rainbow Reel Tokyo International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival and featured at the 29th Hong Kong Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. Imai’s latest feature Ginger and Honey Milk premiered to a sold out audience at the 3rd Tokyo Deaf International Film Festival in 2021.
QWOCMAP presents the International Queer Women of Color Film Festival every June, two weekends before Pride Sunday. QWOCMAP will premiere 30 films in 6 screenings for our FREE 19th annual International Queer Women of Color Film Festival, June 9-11, 2023 at the Presidio Theatre in the Presidio National Park. From the lush sageness of memory, movement, and Indigenous traditions of environmental stewardship, to the transformation of grief, and the mycorrhizal relationships between love, collective care, and disability justice, the Festival Focus “Forever Rooted” liberates spores of sovereignty and survivance. All films are Subtitled for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing and Audio Described for the Blind and Low Vision, and ASL interpretation will be provided along with many other forms of accessibility.
Our Queer Women of Color Film Festival is the public face of QWOCMAP’s work, which combines film, art, activism, and community building to engage communities to think critically about their relationship to our movements for social justice.
Website: mika-imai.com