About

Caryn Coleman is the founder of The Future of Film is Female, an organization that amplifies all women filmmakers through its funding, exhibition, and promotional programming. Since launching in February 2018, FOFIF has helped to fund over 20 shorts films, is an ongoing screening series at the Museum of Modern Art, and launched the platform The Future of Film is Female STREAMING. Coleman is also the Director of Programming/Special Projects at Nitehawk Cinema where she programs the annual Nitehawk Shorts Festival, new releases of independent films (focusing on horror and women filmmakers), and special repertory screenings.As a writer, Coleman founded the blog The Girl Who Knew Too Much, which received the 2012 Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Art Writers Initiative grant, and was co-editor of the philosophy journal Incognitum Hactenus. She has organized panels for the Art House Convergence (The Future of Film Distribution is Female), Athena Film Festival (Women and Horror), IFP, NIGHTSTREAM, Connective Conversations for the Ford Foundation at the University of Oregon, and the CAA.

She received her MFA in Curating at Goldsmiths College, University of London.