This event has been postponed due to illness. We look forward to rescheduling the event in Fall 2025. 

The Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies, the Department of French and Italian, and the School of Cinematic Arts invite you to the West Coast Film Premier film screening and a Q&A with award-winning South African experimental filmmaker Shelley Barry.

Based in Johannesburg, South Africa, Shelley Barry’s internationally recognized films explore the intersections of disability, queerness, and visual aesthetics. Honored with multiple Best Documentary awards and two SAFTAs, her films have been screened at various international film festivals as well as The New Museum, Princeton, UT Austin, and Univ. of Gothenburg, Sweden.

As a disability activist, she has served under President Nelson Mandela and in the Office on the Status of Disabled Persons. Barry is the founder of twospinningwheels, a production house that offers marginalized voices the craft of filmmaking.

Presented by Gender and Sexuality Studies, French and Italian, and the School of Cinematic Arts. Organized by Julie Van Dam. Co-sponsored by the Dornsife Divisional Dean for the Humanities, the Dornsife Undergraduate Dean, The Center for Feminist Research, American Studies and Ethnicity, Anthropology, Comparative Literature, Center for Languages and Cultures, Keck School of Medicine, Black Studies Initiative, Visions and Voices, Levan Institute for the Humanities, and Consortium for Gender, Sexuality, Race, and Public Culture.