Maori Karmael Holmes | |
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Born | Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. [1] |
Alma mater | American University (BA), Temple University (MFA) [2] |
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Maori Karmael Holmes is an American filmmaker, curator, cultural worker, and the chief executive and artistic officer of BlackStar Projects, [3] which produces the annual BlackStar Film Festival. Holmes founded the festival in 2012. [4]
Holmes is the director of the 2005 feature documentary Scene Not Heard: Women in Philadelphia Hip-Hop. [5] She has curated several group shows and exhibitions, [6] including, Terence Nance: Swarm, which opened in March 2023 at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia. [7]
Holmes hosts the podcast Many Lumens, [8] and her writing has appeared in Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance, and Collective Wisdom: Co-Creating Media Within Communities Across Disciplines and Algorithms. She holds a BA in history from American University and an MFA in Film from Temple University.
In 2023, Holmes received United States Artists' Berresford Prize [9] and in 2022 received an inaugural Philadelphia's Cultural Treasures Fellowship. [10]
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