photo credit: Naomieh Jovin

Farrah Rahaman is a cultural worker whose inquiry and meaning-making processes is activated through a scaffolding of scholarly research, cultural organizing, curation, and filmmaking. Farrah’s interdisciplinary methodology centers women’s narratives, political and social imaginations, and visual culture.

She is a PhD Candidate at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Farrah was a part of the BlackStar Film Festival team for a decade, where she served as panel curator and producer, and has provided curatorial and research assistance on the exhibitions Assemblage, Lossless and Swarm: Terence Nance. She is currently producing Venus Flytrap, a performance series and installation for BlackStar Projects with the artist Joiri Minaya and curator Dessane Cassell Lopez. As the 2023-2024 Curator-in-Residence at Express Newark she mounted the film and video exhibition Things We Do in the Dark: Cinematic Experiments in Kinship which featured thirty video works from artists who engage in collaborative approaches to contemporary filmmaking. She has received awards from the Leeway Foundation, Independence Public Media Foundation, NextDoc, Wolf Humanities Center, and Sachs Program for Arts Innovation. Currently she is the Director of CAMRA (Collective for Advancing Multimodal Research Arts) at the University of Pennsylvania and a Programmer at the 2025 Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival.