Queer Asian World Cinema Satellite Screening 2026

Date: Saturday, 2026 July 4

Time: 2 pm

Location: 41 Ross Alley, San Francisco, CA 94108

Screening Duration: Approximately 90 mins

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.

The Chinese Culture Center is proud to welcome Queer Asian World Cinema back for a second year, in partnership with the 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; free masks will be available on-site.

About the Films

• Stay Hot Stay Chill by Nancy YiYu Chen
• Memoria by Ross Vasallo
• Stroke of Dreams by Tracy Nguyen
• Because of You: A History of Kilawin Kolektibo by Barbara Malaran & Desireena Almoradie

About 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 like Chinatown Pride, the Hungry Ghost Festival, as well as its landmark annual Gala.

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About QWOCMAP

Founded in San Francisco in 2000, QWOCMAP creates pathways for LBTQIA+ people of color filmmakers to tell their own stories, on their own terms, and change the world in the process. Who we serve shapes how we serve them — from how we structure a workshop to how we run a film festival.

QWOCMAP builds narrative power by transforming the world's most expensive art form into a tool for liberation. We fund, create, exhibit, and distribute high-impact films that shatter stereotypes and reveal the lived truth of inequality. We actively invest in, develop, and nurture the brilliant creativity and incisive leadership of LBTQIA+ BIPOC communities.

QWOCMAP envisions a world where LBTQIA+ BIPOC leadership transforms power through film. The Combahee River Collective taught us the liberation of Black lesbians necessitates dismantling all forms of oppression. Following this wisdom, we advance cultural resistance and renewal through filmmaker-activists who reshape how the world sees and treats our communities.

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Host or Publisher Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco