Kim Anno

Kim Anno is an internationally exhibiting/screening painter, filmmaker, and social practice artist. She founded Wild Projects as a  501C3  in 2016 as a knowledge gathering space, incubator for art, film, music, social practice and performance including environmental justice projects. 

She recently completed post-production on ¡Quba! a documentary on the LGBT Movement in Cuba , production on 90 Miles From Paradise, Water Cities: Indonesia, she completed a PacificAfuture book completed Water City, Ipswich in the UK. She has made a series: Men and Women in Water Cities, 5 short films since 2009. Screenings: Univ of Suffolk, UK, Museum of Modern Art in Rio De Janeiro; the 14th Annual New Media Festival, in Seoul, Goethe Institute in Johannesburg; Durban Municipal Gallery, South Africa, Site Santa Fe Biennale; Varnosi Museum in Hungary; DC Dusseldorf International Expo, Germany. Anno received: Guggenhiem Foundation Fellowship 2024, Asian Cultural Council Award, Henry Luce Foundation Award, Gerbode Foundation, Eureka Foundation’s Fleishhaker Award, Zellerbach Foundation, Open Circle Foundation, Berkeley Film foundation, Robertson Family foundation, James L Knight foundation, among others. www.kimanno.com; Qubafilm.com

 ¡Quba! 

¡Quba! tells an epic and intimate story of the LGBTQ movement in Cuba as key activists press for marriage equality and transform the social fabric of their country.  Music, humor and performance are persuasive tools that touch the hearts and minds of Cubans as they face the opposition of the evangelical church. ¡Quba! will be released in 2024.

90 MILES FROM PARADISE

The latest film in a dramatic hybrid of short films, Men and Women in Water Cities. It is an experimental narrative film project set in sea level rise vulnerable Havana and Key West. Havana is a large cosmopolitan city facing the same climate issues as the smaller and more vulnerable Key West. Between them there are eerie parallels and provocative distinctions. Two sets of actors perform on the coastline from their respective cities and recite a secular Dante’s Purgatorio. The sets are abandoned buildings in both Havana and Key West, and Miami. In the process of stripping away the familiar scenario of religious bliss one finds a new portal to the natural world and the ability to face each other as human beings. The dilemmas remain in the hands of those that construct the society. Telenovela actors, such as Javier Guilarte, and Juana Fernandez, deliver passionate performances as do Miami actors, David Bennett, Yaniel Castillo, and Shein Mompremier.