Next Life & Auras by Tenzin Phuntsog
Nuart Theatre
April 2026:
Memories of Love Returned by Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine
Cinemark Baldwin Hills Crenshaw
LACMA x KAOS Cultural Literacy Collider
KAOS Network
March 2026:
Aama Studio: Threads of Legacy Film Salon with House of Aama & Jamal Ademola
LACMA
LACMA x KAOS Cultural Literacy Collider with Larry Clark
KAOS Network
Strong Sissy Black Movie Night: De Cierta Manera (One Way or Another) by Sara Gómez
February 2026:
Amores Perros with Alejandro González Iñárritu
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
LACMA x KAOS Cultural Literacy Collider with Adisa Anderson and Josllyn Luckett
KAOS Network
Strong Sissy Black Movie Night: Chocolate Babies by Stephen Winter
cielo galleries/studio
Slamdance 2026: Revolution - of being & infinity: evolving and liberatory languages of cinema with work by Zion Estrada, Emanuel Admassu, Ijeoma Iloputaife, Matazi Weathers, Francois Knoetze, Russel Hlongwane, Amy Louise Wilson, Mickael-Sltan Mbanza, Tenzin Phuntsog, Dwayne LeBlanc, Kearra Amaya Gopee, Sonya Mwambu
2220 Arts + Archives | DGA Theater
January 2026:
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions with Kahlil Joseph, Onye Anyanwu, Raven Jackson, and Paul Rogers
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
LACMA x KAOS Cultural Literacy Collider with Jenn Nkiru & Ijeoma Iloputaife
KAOS Network
a true happening of some things i remember, or songs of the mind and moon: films of matazi weathers
Now Instant Image Hall
November 2025:
المومياء Al Momia (The Mummy) by Shadi Abdel Salam
LACMA
October 2025:
LACMA x KAOS Cultural Literacy Collider with Raven Jackson
KAOS Network
September 2025:
Art of Nôm with Suzanne Lecht and Nguyễn Quang Thắng
LACMA
August 2025:
In the Mix: Music & Film - Tony Williams in Africa (guest curated by Ashley Blakeney) with Ashley Blakeney and The Don Brown Collective
LACMA
In the Mix: Music & Film - Songs From the Hole with JJ’88
LACMA
July 2025:
Ejo-Lobi Storytelling: Ritualization through Image and Movement with Petna Ndaliko Katondolo & guest curated by Petna Ndaliko Katondolo with films by Nelson Makengo, Botembe Moseka, Mickael-Sltan Mbanza
LACMA
Black Pacifika: Deep Sea Protocols with Neema Githere and Gilbert Githere & guest curated by Neema Githere with work by Manthia Diawara, Oceanic Refractions, 'Ati Emberson-Bain, Siale Bain-Vete & Melino Bain-Vete, Auntie Fonu
LACMA
June 2025:
Aspect Ratio Vol. 3: South LA Perspectives
LACMA
May 2025:
In The Mix: Music & Film - It Was All A Dream by Dream Hampton with Myka9, Stas thee Boss, Wyldeflower
LACMA
In The Mix: Music & Film - Kumbia Net: Un Estilo Bien Diferente by Álvaro Parra with Turbo Sonidero, DJ BSYDE
LACMA
In The Mix: Music & Film - Rhythms & Motion Virtual Shorts Program guest curated by Octavia Anderson with Leo Martinelli, Elle Rose Rinaldi, Rangoato Hlasane, Joshua Rodriguez, Ciara Zoe, Guinevere Alcaraz, Jazmin Garcia
LACMA
March 2025:
Digital Infinities: Spirited Pixels with Rebecca Allen, Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, Casey Koyczan, Liz Maelane, LaJuné McMillian, Maria Meinild, Adam Khalil, Liz Mputu, Takeshi Murata, Christopher Rutledge, Hideki Nakazawa, John Sanborn, Dean Winkler, Tabita Rezaire
REDCAT
January 2025:
Evading Capture: Black Women in Cinema guest curated by Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich - Diva with Tiffany Barber
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Evading Capture: Black Women in Cinema guest curated by Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich - Shorts Program with Fronza Woods, Simone Leigh, Liz Magic Laser, Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, Numa Perrier, Paige Taul
LACMA
DEMO Festival 2025: Cities Edition
Various video billboard locations in Los Angeles
December 2024:
Playful Pop: Creativity Inspired by Early Animation featuring Fabulous Fleischer Cartoons and Rich Zim
LOOK Cinemas
October 2024:
ARTBOUND - Black Art: A Brockman Gallery Legacy
Los Angeles Central Library
Basandja Coalition & Free Congo Fundraiser: 片丹卞丹己凵冊日工片丹
with Samuel Yagase Bayombe and Petna Ndaliko Katondolo
Human Resources LA
September 2024:
Insurgent Sisters: Women of the LA Rebellion - Recoveries of Spirit with Alile Sharon Larkin, Jacqueline Frazier, Zeinabu Irene Davis, Sophia Nahli Allison, Rikkî Wright & additional films by Julie Dash, dana washington-queen, Melvonna Ballenger, Garrett Bradley
Cinemark Baldwin Hills Crenshaw
Insurgent Sisters: Women of the LA Rebellion - Of Ritual and Remembrance with Storme’ Bright Sweet, Rikkî Wright, Barbara McCullough & additional films by Anita Addison, Ijeoma Iloputaife (aka Omah Diegu), Martine Syms, Imelda Sheen, Alime Lee, Cauleen Smith, O.Funmilayo Makarah, Danielle Dickerson
Cinemark Baldwin Hills Crenshaw
Insurgent Sisters: Women of the LA Rebellion - Film Practice in Focus Seminar Day with Rikkî Wright, Barbara McCullough, Alile Sharon Larkin, Storme’ Bright Sweet, Onye Anyanwu, Gwendolyn Schaeffer, Alima Lee, Kimberly Townes, Ben Caldwell
Earvin Magic Johnson Park
June 2024:
Technology Telling Stories: New Dimensions in Film - DiDi（弟弟）with Sean Wang
LOOK Cinemas
Sound and Silent Film: the Immersive Propaganda of Imagined Fronts
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
May 2024:
Technology Telling Stories: New Dimensions in Film - Eno with Gary Hustwit
The Alex Theater
Technology Telling Stories: New Dimensions in Film - Seeking Mavis Beacon with Jazmin Jones, Yeelen Cohen, Geutty Felin, Anisia Uzeyman and Saul Williams
Cinemark Baldwin Hills Crenshaw
March 2024:
New Women Auteurs of Contemporary Cinema guest curated by Jacqueline Lyanga - The Rapture (Le Ravissement) with Iris Kaltenbäck
Vidiots
New Women Auteurs of Contemporary Cinema guest curated by Jacqueline Lyanga - Tiger Stripes with Amanda Nell Eu
Vidiots
February 2024:
New Women Auteurs of Contemporary Cinema guest curated by Jacqueline Lyanga - Girl with Adura Onashile
Vidiots
January 2024:
New Women Auteurs of Contemporary Cinema guest curated by Jacqueline Lyanga - Totem with Lila Avilés
Vidiots
December 2023:
Blue by Derek Jarman
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
November 2023:
Nam June Paik: Moon Is The Oldest TV with Steven Yeun
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
October 2023:
Aspect Ratio Vol. 2: South LA Perspectives
LACMA
September 2023:
Reflections From the Unseen World: Films by Women of the Ummah - Jinn with Nijla Mu’min
Lumiere Cinema
Reflections From the Unseen World: Films by Women of the Ummah - A Door to the Sky (باب السماء مفتوح, Bab al-Samah Maftuh) by Farida Benlyazid
Lumiere Cinema
August 2023:
Reflections From the Unseen World: Films by Women of the Ummah - The Day I Became a Woman (روزی که زن شدم, Roozi ke zan shodam) by Marzieh Meshkini
Lumiere Cinema
July 2023:
Digital Infinities: Computer Generated Film & Video with Natalie Paneng, Mary Ellen Bute, Ryoichi Kurokawa, John Stehura, Jeron Braxton, Nam June Paik, Arash Akbari, Lillian Schwartz, Arafa Cynthia Hamadi, John Whitney Sr., LaJuné McMillian
REDCAT
June 2023:
Pushing Politics: Revolutionary Film in Mexico & Germany - Rio Escondido by Emilio Fernandez
Consulado General de México en Los Ángeles
May 2023:
Aspect Ratio Vol. 1: South LA Perspectives
LACMA
Pushing Politics: Revolutionary Film in Mexico & Germany - Kuhle Wampe, or Who Owns The World? by Slatan Dudow and Bertolt Brecht
Goethe-Institut Los Angeles
February 2023:
Wayward Waters: Black Cinema & The Atlantic guest curated by Yasmina Price - Mouthpieces of Memory: Dreams Are Colder Than Death by Arthur Jafa
Cinemark Baldwin Hills Crenshaw
Wayward Waters: Black Cinema & The Atlantic guest curated by Yasmina Price - Fragments of Diaspora: Shorts Selections with suné woods & Zama Dube and films by Epharim Asili, Christopher Harris, Miatta Kawinzi, Sarah Maldoror, João Vieira Torres, Tanawi Xucuru Kariri, suné woods
Cinemark Baldwin Hills Crenshaw
Wayward Waters: Black Cinema & The Atlantic guest curated by Yasmina Price - Dark Water: Cette Maison (This House) with Miryam Charles
Cinemark Baldwin Hills Crenshaw
Wayward Waters: Black Cinema & The Atlantic guest curated by Yasmina Price - Black Labor: Soleil Ô by Med Hondo & Atlantiques by Mati Diop with Althea Wasow
Cinemark Baldwin Hills Crenshaw
September 2019:
Strong Sissy Black Movie Night: MAJOR! by Miss Major
cielo galleries/studio
August 2019:
Strong Sissy Black Movie Night: The Spook Who Sat by the Door by Ivan Dixon
cielo galleries/studio
July 2019:
Strong Sissy Black Movie Night: we been knew - Shorts by Terrence Price II, Cauleen Smith, Rikki Wright, Barbara Mccullough, Alima Jennings, Etang Inyang, Martine Syms
cielo galleries/studio
June 2019:
Strong Sissy Black Movie Night: Happy Birthday Marsha! by Tourmaline + Pose by Ryan Murphy
cielo galleries/studio
March 2019:
Strong Sissy Black Movie Night: The Color Purple by Alice Walker / Steven Spielberg
cielo galleries/studio
February 2019:
Strong Sissy Black Movie Night:
comings//goings - Afrodiasporic Shorts by Cecile Emike, Mati Diop, Donovan Vim Crony, Ladin Awad, Vashni Korin, Jean-Marie Téno, Davia Spain
cielo galleries/studio
December 2018:
Strong Sissy Black Movie Night: No! The Rape Documentary by Aishah Shahidah Simmons
cielo galleries/studio
November 2018:
Strong Sissy Black Movie Night: Watermelon Woman by Cheryl Dunye
cielo galleries/studio
October 2018:
Strong Sissy Black Movie Night: Cultural Criticism & Transformation by bell hooks
cielo galleries/studio
September 2018:
Strong Sissy Black Movie Night: Daughters of the Dust by Julie Dash
cielo galleries/studio
July 2018:
Strong Sissy Black Movie Night: Say My Name by Nirit Peled
cielo galleries/studio
November 2012:
Film Journeys: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace by Adam Curtis
Echo Park Film Center
November 2011:
Film Journeys: Ballast by Lance Hammer
Echo Park Film Center
September 2011:
Film Journeys: Un Lac by Philippe Grandrieux
Echo Park Film Center
August 2011:
Film Journeys: Historias Extraordinarias by Mariano Llinás
Echo Park Film Center
June 2011:
Film Journeys: Un Homme Qui Crie by Mahamet Saleh Haroun
Echo Park Film Center
May 2011:
Film Journeys: Una Semana Solos by Celina Murga
Echo Park Film Center
April 2011:
Film Journeys: It Felt Like a Kiss by Adam Curtis
Echo Park Film Center
March 2011:
Film Journeys: Millenium Mambo by Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Echo Park Film Center
February 2011:
Film Journeys: Alamar by Pedro González-Rubio
Echo Park Film Center
June 2010:
EPFC Youth Film Festival: FEED THE MONSTER
The Smell
May 2009:
EPFC Youth Film Festival
Echo Park Film Center
COLLABORATIVE / CURATORIAL PROJECTS
Purple Garden Cinema
(producer)
The Underground Museum
2018
THrōz
(trans/queer/black/brown dance and social space)
(coordinator/curator) w/ THrōz Collective
Various Spaces, Los Angeles, CA
2016/17/18
Abolition and the Radical Imagination
(political education event)
(coordinator/curator) w/ Critical Resistance LA
ft. Angela Davis, Fred Moten, Melanie Cervantes, Robin D.G. Kelley, Georgia Anne Muldrow
Agape International Spiritual Center
February 2016
Freedom Functions
(political education event series)
(coordinator) w/ LA No More Jails & Critical Resistance LA
Various Spaces, Los Angeles, CA
2015
Dreaming Wildly, Fighting to Win
(art auction and performance event)
(coordinator/curator) w/ Critical Resistance LA
ft. Fred Moten, LA Poverty Department, Melissa Burch
The Underground Museum
December 2014
H O O P S
(monthly political music event)
(coordinator/curator) w/ H O O P S Collective
Los Angeles, CA
2014
Cake and Eat It: Look At These Fucking Artists
(featured artist)
Human Resources LA
September 2014
CRLA at Mike Kelley Mobile Homestead
(coordinator) w/ Critical Resistance LA
Museum of Contemporary Art
June 2014
CRLA at The Schindler House
(coordinator) w/ Critical Resistance LA
ft. Andrea Fraser, Rachel Herzing, and Ashley Hunt
MAK Center for Art + Architecture
April 2014
A Free School
(free education and event space)
(co-founder/coordinator) /w AFS Collective
Los Angeles, CA
2013
strictlyyouth
(performing as strictlyyouth collective)
SALTA is Dances in the Round, Oakland, CA
November 2013
QueerPoCalypse
(featured artist) w/ AFS Collective
Heart of Art Gallery
October 2013