James I. Diamond,Filmmaker/Activist
Select Festival Screenings:
On March 12 2012 I showed 7 of my shorts in Toronto as a retrospective at a performance art festival.
Anarchist Film Festival, Berlin 07/17/09 “The Man From Venus” super-8, (on internal/external alienation, 4 min, 1999)
Corpse sans Organes –Montreuil France 05/27/08 “Mars Womb Man”( mini dv, pregnancy and gender explored-11 min ,2006)
Queer City Cinema –Regina 06/13/08 “Mars Womb Man”
Native Spirit Festival-10/27/08, London UK “Mars Womb Man”
ImagineNATIVE- Toronto, 10/23/07 “Mars Womb-Man
Terres en Vues - Montreal, 06/20/04 “First Things First” >mini dv, (on first world child/family poverty), 3 min, 2001
Smithsonian Institute: Native American Film and Video Festival - NYC, 12/06/03 “First things First”
Smithsonian Institute:Native American film and Video Festival –NYC ,12/06/O3 “Brain Plus World” (Music Video style dealing with decadence in the modern world , 4 min ,2001)
World Wide Short Film Festival - Toronto, O6/03/03 “The Man from Venus” ,
States of Alterity - Berlin, 11/22/02 “The Man from Venus”
Anti Matter tour ”The Man From Venus”
Guadalajara, Mexico - November 2003 - Chroma Festival de Arte Audiovisual
Singapore - August 2003 - Objectifs Photography & Film Centre
Mexico City, Mexico - December 2002 - Centro de Capacitacion Cinematografica, Centro Nacional de las Artes
Oaxaca, Mexico - November 2002 - Cine El Pochote
Kraljevo, Serbia - September/October 2002 - Mirror of the Balkans, Visual Culture Centre Ogledalo
Prague, Czech Republic - June 2002 - Universal NoD/ROXY
London, England - May 2002 - Hatcham Social Club Hall
Smithsonian Institute: Native American Film and Video Festival - NYC, 11/17/00 “The Man From Venus”
Vancouver International Film Festival - Vancouver, 10/06/00 “The Man from Venus”
Archives:
University of California, California - “The Man from Venus”
Ryerson University, Ontario - “The Man from Venus”
Portland State University, Portland, Oregon - “The Man from Venus”, “First things First”
National Museum of the American Indian, NYC - “The Man from Venus”, “First things First””Brain plus World”
Education:
Indigenous Media Arts Group - Media Literacy and Video Production Course- 2001
Access To Media Education Society - Video Production Course- 1999
Urban Outreach -Producing and hand processing Super 8 film - 1998
Gulf Island Film and Television School -Video Production Course - 1997
Awards and grants:
ImagineNATIVE Film Festival -Toronto - Best Experimental –“Mars-Womb-Man” - 2007
Out on Screen Queer Film Festival Scholarship Program -Vancouver-video production scholarship - 2001
Out on Screen -Vancouver - Gerry Brunet Memorial Award for Best BC Director -“The Man From Venus”- 2000
Eye Lens Festival - Vancouver- Best Editing - “Outline” >high 8, on variable sexuality/self acceptance, 11min -1997
Professional Experience:
-“Mangina” musically based performance artists at various venues-
Vancouver 2009-2011
-Guitarist for Mutya Macatumpag –at various venues -Vancouver 2008-09
- Native Child and Family Service –Toronto- Muralist- 2008
-SNAP! Colours of resistance – Montreal -youth of colour anti racism project-sat on board & hiring committee- 2007
-Ville de Montreal - Public Muralist -Montreal 2006
-Sex Workers Art Show Tour- 4 paintings rented- over 30 venues -LA, Chicago, NY etc - 2005
- Stone Barn Castle Centre for the Arts - NY- Resident Artist - 2004
- Much Music/Cinefilm Studios - Montreal – Music Video-Assistant Producer- 2004
- Smithsonian Institution -National Museum of the American Indian- NY - Video Editor and Festival assistant - 2003
- Penny Arcade (performance artist featured in Warhols “woman in revolt”) - NY -Video Editor - 2003
- Portland State University,University of Oregon,
- Evergreen College - Northwest U.S. - Film and Video Presenter/Panelist - 2003
- Access to Media Education Society - Galiano, B.C. -Video Production Mentor - 2002
- Out on Screen Queer Film Festival - Vancouver -Curator- 2001
- Out on Screen Queer Film Festival – Vancouver- Juror –2001
- Out on Screen Queer Film Festival Video Production Scholarship - Vancouver- Juror - 2001
- Video In Studios – Vancouver- Board of Producers - 2000
- Doxa Documentary Film Festival - Vancouver - Curator - 2000
- Save The Children -Vancouver – Graphic Designer - 1999
-Urban Rediscovery -Vancouver – Creative mentor for youth – 1998
-Brittania Community Services- Vancouver- Muralist- 1997
References:
William Hugel, Stone Barn Castle Center for the Arts, President
315-675-3602 william@stonebarnart.org
Michelle Svenson, Smithsonian Institute, Director of Film and Video department
Cleo Reece, Indigenous Media Arts Group, Founder and Coordinator