Angelique Kalani Axelrode


Most Recent Affiliation(s):


  • Vanderbilt University

ISEA Bio(s) Available:


  • ISEA2024

    Angelique Kalani Axelrode (they/she/’o ia) is an award winning film maker/multimedia artist who recieved their BS from Vanderbilt University in ’21. They leverage film as a medium for self-discovery and to connect with community, and focus on how to indigenize and queer filmmaking processes.

    They are a soon to be graduate student at NYU Tisch and recently launced aka productions, a queer owned production company centreing BIPOC and Gen Z stories.

    She as presented work at over 30 international film festivals, galleries, venues and conferences; notably the Asian Film Archives, Native Maerican and Indigenous Studies Association, British Film Institute and Aupuni Space Gallery.

    They are a 2023 LIFT Awardee with Native Arts and Culture Foundation and recently served as a TRADES AiR Resident in O’ahu where they launched KAI HALI’A an expanded media performance, immersive installation and short film.

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