Andrea Passafiume attended the excellent 2022 LEAD Conference in Raleigh, NC this August after being awarded a Lehman Scholarship from the Kennedy Center’s VSA Office. Andrea is a documentary film programmer and writer based in the Washington DC area with extensive experience curating documentary features and shorts for film festivals including Tribeca, AFI Docs, Sundance, Doc NYC, AFI Fest and CIFF. Andrea, a member of the D/deaf and HOH community, earned her B.F.A and M.A. in Cinema Studies from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and is currently earning a Certificate in ASL (American Sign Language). Thanks to FWD-Doc for sharing the news!
