Genevieve Carmel

Gen is a filmmaker and film programmer from Cambridge, MA. She works as Program Director for the LEF Foundation, where she helps filmmakers to navigate the LEF New England Moving Image Fund, a regional grant program that supports nonfiction feature works by film and video artists who live and work in New England, and which values artistic vision and experimentation. As part of her work for LEF, she has also coordinated and co-programmed short films for The DocYard, a screening and discussion series that brings new and artistic nonfiction films to Boston. Born in Boston in 1988 to an American mother and a Haitian father, Gen grew up in Cambridge, MA, before earning her B.A. in Social Anthropology from Harvard College and spending three years in Beijing where she first gained experience as an independent film festival coordinator and programmer. Back in Boston, she previously co-founded the Crows & Sparrows screening series, she has served on the selection committee for the Revolutions per Minute Film Festival, and she has served as a media arts panelist for the Boston Cultural Council and National Endowment for the Arts. Outside of her work at LEF, Gen is interested in writing, curating, filmmaking, music, and DIY arts community building as a member of the AgX Film Collective.