Past Film Programming/Curation Experience (listed by film / program)
2020 Revolutions Per Minute Film Festival, Boston, MA (As a selection committee member, reviewed over 200 submissions for the second edition of this experimental film festival in Boston)
2019 Cellaigh at Kilmainham (dir. Kelly Gallagher), presented by the DocYard at the Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA (short film curated to screen with feature The Image You Missed by Donal Foreman)
2019 We Were Hardly More Than Children (dir. Cecelia Condit), presented by the DocYard at the Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA (short film curated to screen with feature Leona’s Sister Gerri by Jane Gillooly)
2019 The Sign Project (dir Sarah Ginsburg), presented by the DocYard at the Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA (short film curated to screen with feature Combat Obscura by Miles Lagoze)
2019 Diana (dir. Traci Hercher), presented by the DocYard at the Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA (short film curated to screen with the feature The Seer and the Unseen by Sara Dosa)
2019 Afghanistan’s Lost Films (dirs. Jordan Bryon, Joyce Lee, Siobhán O’Grady & Sharif Hassan) presented by the DocYard at the Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA (short film curated to screen with the feature Midnight Traveler by Hassan Fazili)
2019 The Happiest Guy in the World (dir. Lance Oppenheim), presented by the DocYard at the Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA (short film curated to screen with feature The Raft by Marcus Lindeen)
2019 Kindah (dir. Ephraim Asili), presented by the The DocYard at the Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA (short film curated to screen with feature Black Mother by Khalik Allah)
2019 À Bout Portés (dir. Clémence Poésy), presented by The DocYard at the Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA (short film curated to screen with feature Le Concours by Claire Simon)
2019 Hoarders Without Boarders 1.0 and Wasteland No. 1: Ardent, Verdant (dir. Jodie Mack), presented by The DocYard at the Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA (two short films curated to screen with feature The Grand Bizarre by Jodie Mack)
2019 Revolutions Per Minute Film Festival, Boston, MA (As a selection committee member, reviewed over 200 submissions for the inaugural edition of this experimental film festival in Boston)
2018 “Films from the AgX Film Collective”, presented by the AgX Film Collective at the Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA (short film program curated in collaboration with Stefan Grabowski)
2018 An Elephant Sitting Still (dir. Hu Bo), co-presented by Crows & Sparrows and the Emergent Visions Film Series of the Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA
2018 Knife in the Clear Water (dir. Wang Xuebo), co-presented by Crows & Sparrows and the Emergent Visions Film Series of the Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA
2018 Shelter: Human Stories from Central America (dir. Matthew Kazuo Firpo), presented by The DocYard at the Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA (short film curated to screen with the feature film Island of the Hungry Ghosts by Gabrielle Brady)
2018 Mixed Signals (dir. Courtney Stephens), presented by The DocYard at the Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA (short film curated to screen with the feature film Distant Constellation by Shevaun Mizrahi)
2018 Trump Dreams (dir. Ruth Lingford), presented by The DocYard at the Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA (short film curated to screen with the feature film Our New President by Maxim Pozdorovkin)
2018 Singing from the Rooftops (dir. Enric Ribes), presented by The DocYard at the Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA (short film curated to screen with the feature film The Gospel of Eureka by Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher)
2018 Picket Line (dir. Cecilia Aldarondo), presented by The DocYard at the Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA (short film curated to screen with the feature film Bisbee ‘17 by Robert Greene)
2018 Baby Brother (dir. Kamau Bilal), presented by The DocYard at the Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA (short film curated to screen with the feature film Hale County This Morning, This Evening by RaMell Ross)
2018 How to Make a Tennis Ball (dir. Benedict Redgrove), presented by The DocYard at the Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA (short film curated to screen with the feature film Love Means Zero by Jason Kohn)
2018 Mr. Yellow Sweatshirt (dir. Pacho Velez & Yoni Brook), presented by The DocYard at the Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA (short film curated to screen with the feature film Railway Sleepers by Sompot Chidgasornpongse)
2018 Carolee, Barbara, & Gunvor (dir. Lynne Sachs), presented by The DocYard at the Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA (short film curated to screen with the feature film 95 and 6 To Go by Kimi Takesue)
2018 Muana Mboka (dir. Jean-Michel Kibushi Ndjate Wooto), presented by The DocYard at the Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA (short film curated to screen with the feature film This is Congo by Daniel McCabe)
2018 An Ecstatic Experience (dir. Ja’Tovia Gary), presented by The DocYard at the Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA (short film curated to screen with the feature film Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart by Tracy Heather Strain)
2017 The Windmill (dir. Daniel Sousa), presented by The DocYard at the Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA (short film curated to screen with the feature film The Departure by Lana Wilson)
2017 The Future is Behind You (dir. Abigail Child) presented by The DocYard at the Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA (short film curated to screen with the feature film Acts & Intermissions by Abigail Child)
2017 In this World (dir. Kelly Creedon), presented by The DocYard at the Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA (short film curated to screen with the feature film Quest by Jonathan Olshefski)
2017 A.D. 2015 (dir. Khatuna Khundadze), presented by The DocYard at the Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA (short film curated to screen with the feature film The Dazzling Light of Sunset by Salome Jashi)
2017 A Conversation with Police on Race (dir. Geeta Gandbhir & Perri Peltz), presented by The DocYard at the Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA (short film curated to screen with the feature film Strong Island by Yance Ford)
2017 Distance Between (dir. R.J. Lozada), presented by The DocYard at the Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA (short film curated to screen with the feature film Motherland by Ramona Diaz)
2017 Mother’s Day (dir. Elizabeth Lo & R.J. Lozada), presented by The DocYard at the Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA (short film curated to screen with the feature film The Work by Jairus McLeary & Gethin Aldous)
2017 We the Workers (dir. Wen Hai), co-presented by Crows & Sparrows and the Emergent Visions Film Series of the Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2017 “Light Spells: Films by Sandy Ding”, co-presented by Crows & Sparrows and the Balagan Film Series at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline, MA (short film program curated in collaboration with Stefan Grabowski)
2017 Maineland (dir. Miao Wang), co-presented by Crows & Sparrows and the Independent Film Festival Boston, Somerville, MA
2017 Big Boy (dir. Shireen Seno), co-presented by Crows & Sparrows and the Balagan Film Series at the AgX Film Collective, Waltham, MA
2017 “The Kalampag Tracking Agency”, co-presented by Crows & Sparrows and the Balagan Film Series, Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline, MA (film program curated by Shireen Seno and Merv Espina)
2017 Behemoth (dir. Zhao Liang), co-presented by Crows & Sparrows and The DocYard Film Series, Cambridge, MA (programmed in collaboration with Benny Shaffer)
2017 “Inhabit / Habitar”, presented by the AgX Film Collective at Emerson College, Boston, MA (a program of films from members of the AgX Film Collective, curated in collaboration with Anto Astudillo)
2016 Sixty Six (dir. Lewis Klahr), closing night film, co-presented by Crows & Sparrows and the China Independent Animation Forum, Beijing, China (feature film curated by invitation)
2016 “Short Films by Lewis Klahr”, co-presented by Crows & Sparrows and the China Independent Animation Forum, Beijing, China (short film program curated by invitation with visiting filmmaker Q&A)
2016 Sixty Six (dir. Lewis Klahr), presented by Crows & Sparrows at OCAT Shanghai, Shanghai, China (feature film program and visiting filmmaker Q&A)
2016 Hooligan Sparrow (dir. Nanfu Wang), co-presented by Crows & Sparrows and the Independent Film Festival Boston, Somerville, MA
2016 Distant (dir. Zhengfan Yang), presented by Crows & Sparrows at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Boston, MA (feature film program and filmmaker Q&A)
2015 Snakeskin (dir. Daniel Hui), co-presented by Crows & Sparrows and the Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge, MA (feature film program and filmmaker Q&A)
2015 The Chinese Mayor (dir. Zhou Hao), co-presented by Crows & Sparrows and the Independent Film Festival Boston, Somerville, MA
2015 “New Directions in Chinese Animation”, co-presented by Crows & Sparrows and the Balagan Film Series, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Boston, MA (short film program and filmmaker Q&A curated in collaboration with Xin Zhou and Benny Shaffer)
2015 “Recycled: Reconstructions of Place and Memory”, co-presented by Crows & Sparrows, and the Balagan Film Series, Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA (short film program and filmmaker Q&A curated in collaboration with Xin Zhou, Benny Shaffer, Jeff Silva, and Stefan Grabowski)
2012 Invited Programmer, American Section, Beijing New Youth Film Festival, Beijing, China (invited 19 independent American films to screen during the festival, and hosted filmmaker Lucia Small for Q&A)