Lj Presents: Maria Judice

Maria is a visual storyteller working in cinema, photography, and
art. She received her M.F.A. from CalArts in Film/Video. As an
award-winning writer/director, her experience ranges across new
media platforms, traditional media, technology, public art/civic
engagement and subject matters left of center. She leads the
charge as a producer with essential business, marketing, and
creative skills. With a practice, autonomy first and platform
second, she maintains mobility and adaptation new technologies.
 Her artwork is about community, space, and place. Her short
film PALM TREES won the Adrienne Shelly Award for excellence in
directing and aired on BET's “Lens on Talent”. Awards for the
best narrative film MOONLESS and screenplay ORBITERS were also
garnered. SPACED and MOONLESS have screened around the world and
are distributed by Flourishing Films.

Her organization INDIGO IMPACT was founded in 2016 with a mission
to bring left of center stories and creators to global audiences
as an Impact Producer. She worked for such titles like
DREAMSTATES starring Saul Williams, Haiti’s first Oscar selection
AYITI MON AMOUR, and JINN by Oakland native Nijla Mumin. She
brings affordable music, literature, art and performance to the
Bay Area as a Co-Curator of the MATATU FESTIVAL. Previously
sitting on the board of BAWIFM and SFWIFF, she continues a
commitment to autonomous filmmaking and advocating for equality
and equity for women in film.

WIRED magazine called her a “filmmaker provocateur” bridging
technology thinking with art making. Futurism and technology feed
her love for science fiction, surrealism and fantasy. Feature
projects in development KILL, TIME. and EVENTUALLY, EVERYTHING IS
FINE, view sci-fi through a lo-fi lens. A CERTAIN GRACE continues
her conversation with San Francisco in making the invisible --
seen. Currently, she is working on her second long-form film "IN
THIS WORLD". She can be found in her hometown of San Francisco
kicking around the fog





Maria Judice


Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariajudice


Website: https://www.mariaaj.com/





Host Website


www.ljeffreymoore.com


Music Credits


I dunno by grapes (c) copyright 2008 Licensed under a Creative
Commons Attribution (3.0) license.
http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626 Ft: J Lang, Morusque


The Vendetta by Stefan Kartenberg (c) copyright 2018 Licensed
under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.
http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/JeffSpeed68/58628 Ft: Apoxode


Outro


Paint The Sky by Jeris (c) copyright 2017 Licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.
http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/VJ_Memes/55442 Ft: MissJudged