Nuala Cabral

Location
West Philadelphia, West Philadephia

Nuala Cabral is an award-winning filmmaker, cultural producer, and teaching artist who is deeply committed to the power of storytelling and media to build bridges of understanding and advance social justice. She has taught media production, media advocacy, and media literacy in high schools, colleges and community spaces for the past decade. Nuala developed the youth program at BlackStar Film Festival and currently oversees youth media programs for high school students, including the award-winning journalism program, POPPYN (Presenting Our Perspective: Philly Youth News). Nuala is co-founder of FAAN (Fostering Activism and Alternatives Now), a media literacy and activist project formed by queer women of color. She is also a founding member and alumna of BYP100, a national black youth activist organization fighting for black liberation.

Awarded Grants

2018
Leeway Transformation Award (LTA)

$15,000
Discipline(s)
Media Arts
Social Change Intents
Displacement / Migration / Immigration
Feminism
Racial Justice

Nuala Cabral is an award-winning filmmaker, cultural producer, and teaching artist who is deeply committed to the power of storytelling and media to build bridges of understanding and advance social justice. She has taught media production, media advocacy, and media literacy in high schools, colleges and community spaces for the past decade. Nuala developed the youth program at BlackStar Film Festival and currently oversees youth media programs for high school students, including the award-winning journalism program, POPPYN (Presenting Our Perspective: Philly Youth News). Nuala is co-founder of FAAN (Fostering Activism and Alternatives Now), a media literacy and activist project formed by queer women of color. She is also a founding member and alumna of BYP100, a national black youth activist organization fighting for black liberation.

2011
Art and Change Grant (ACG)

$2,500
Discipline(s)
Media Arts
Social Change Intents
Feminism

Nuala will facilitate a ten-week workshop series called Sisters Action Media, where young women (ages 15-19) learn to deconstruct media, create a short film about a social issue that is important to them and use social media, public broadcast and screenings to amplify their message and engage their communities. Participants in this program will develop a critical eye, technical skills and find their voice, so that they can become agents for change.

Philly CAM

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