Madeleine Lim was born on 11 May 1964 and is a filmmaker, producer, director, cinematographer and LGBTQ activist.
12 Facts About Madeleine Lim
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Madeleine Lim is the founding Executive Director of the Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project, and an adjunct professor of film studies at the University of San Francisco.
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Madeleine Lim was born in Singapore in 11 May 1964.
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Madeleine Lim's mother was born in China and adopted by Singaporean parents when she was 6, and her father was born in Malacca, and is of Chinese, Malay, Indian and Portuguese descent.
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Madeleine Lim lived with her parents until she was 23 years old.
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Madeleine Lim studied at the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus for her primary and secondary school education.
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Madeleine Lim then went to Catholic Junior College and finished her diploma in the College of Physical Education.
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In 1984, Madeleine Lim, who was 20 years old at the time, ran an underground lesbian feminist newsletter in Singapore for two years.
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In 1985, a women's discussion group called the "NUS weekly tea group for womyn" was started at the National University of Singapore and Madeleine Lim became actively involved in its activities, facilitating the weekly discussions and writing articles for its newsletter.
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Around the same time, Madeleine Lim became actively involved in Singapore's feminist organization, Association of Women for Action and Research.
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Madeleine Lim is a co-founder of SAMBAL and the US Asian Lesbian Network in the San Francisco Bay Area in California, USA.
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Madeleine Lim's work has been featured at museums and universities, and broadcast on PBS to over 2.5 million viewers.