Maori Karmael Holmes

Maori Karmael Holmes
Born
Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
Alma materAmerican University (BA), Temple University (MFA)
Occupations
  • Filmmaker
  • Curator
  • Writer
  • Non-profit Executive

Maori Karmael Holmes is an American filmmaker, curator, cultural worker, and the chief executive and artistic officer of BlackStar Projects, which produces the annual BlackStar Film Festival. Holmes founded the festival in 2012.

Holmes is the director of the 2005 feature documentary Scene Not Heard: Women in Philadelphia Hip-Hop. She has curated several group shows and exhibitions, including, Terence Nance: Swarm, which opened in March 2023 at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia.

Holmes hosts the podcast Many Lumens, and her writing has appeared in Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance, and Collective Wisdom: Co-Creating Media Within Communities Across Disciplines and Algorithms. She holds a BA in history from American University and an MFA in Film from Temple University.

In 2023, Holmes received United States Artists' Berresford Prize and in 2022 received an inaugural Philadelphia's Cultural Treasures Fellowship.

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