KJ Mohr

KJ Mohr (she/they) is the director of the Maryland Film Festival and film programming at Baltimore's Parkway Theatre. A professional film curator and educator with over three decades of experience, KJ's career has been in service to art house cinemas, festivals, museums, community-based, and educational organizations. She is deeply committed to collaborative work and community engagement, with expertise in cinemas of the Global South, women/femme directors, queer cinema and experimental/avant-garde film. KJ teaches cinema history, theory and analysis in the MFA Filmmaking program at the Maryland Institute College of Art and in the Film and Video Studies Department at George Mason University. They are also a consulting curator for the National Gallery of Art’s film program in Washington, DC. For 10 years, KJ was Director of Programming for the Tampa Bay International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, and other past posts include Baltimore’s Creative Alliance, Annapolis Film Festival, Outfest, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Women in the Director’s Chair, and Conversations at the Edge, a weekly visiting filmmaker series at the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago. KJ is part of the feminist programming collective, Four Quarters.