Our curator’s corner

The CURATORS CORNER is a the youth-based curatorial team for the Anacostia Youth Media Festival. Students learn visual literacy and storytelling skills. Students review each submitted film and work together to determine the yearly awards, categories and acceptances.

meet our 2023 FESTIVAL CURATORS

  • AUTUMN LEE

    Autumn Lee is a 12-year-old 6th grader at Stuart-Hobson Middle School and a resident of Ward 7. Autumn is on the principal's honor roll and her National History Day Project about Nirvana and the rise of grunge music recently made it to the schoolwide NHD competition. She enjoys, reading, painting, and studying facts about movies and movie studios in her spare time.

  • Lilian West

    Lilian West is a 4th grader at Simon Elementary. “I’m a mathematician, I love math and I like to read too. I also like to do a lot of things, swimming, softball, dancing, skating, boxing, I can do a whole lot of things. One of my favorite movies is Alice and Wonderland because her friends are trying to help Alice in the Wonderland.”

  • Gena West

    Gena West is a 5th grader at Excel Academy. “I like to learn about new things, about everything in the world. I love animals, bugs and all of God's creatures and want to help them stay alive, that is why I want to be a Veterinarian. My favorite movie is Mario because it has a lot of characters and I love how they work together and they are fun to watch.”

  • Kodi Jordan

    Kodi Jordan is in Middle School at DC International. “My name is Kodi Jordan. I am 12 years old. I am an author and an actor as well as a musician. I have been on a film called "Social Media Be Like" and I am learning to film and make stories. I joined the Curator's Circle because I am thinking of making a new series and I want to learn new film techniques.

  • Laquincey Watson

    Laquincey Watson is a freshman at Roosevelt Senior High School in Washington, DC. Laquincey volunteers with the Curator’s Circle in support of the Anacostia Youth Media Festival and in his spare time he likes to create Tick Tok videos, listen to music, and play the guitar. In the future, Laquincey plans to attend Howard University and become a Prosecutor.