Prerana Reddy is co-director of the NY Arab & South Asian Film Festival as as well documentary producer whose work has explored such topics as alternatives to juvenile detention and the 2004 World Social Forum in Mumbai. She holds an MA from NYU's Cinema Studies Department where she completed an interdepartmental program with Anthropology.

She is currently the Director of Public Events at the Queens Museum of Art (QMA), where she organizes screenings, performances, public art projects, and artists talks, as well as community development and outreach efforts with immigrant populations. At QMA, she also co-curated the exhibition "Fatal Love:South Asian Contemporary Art Now."

Her current volunteer work includes being the co-founder and programming collective member of 3rd I NY, which exhibits South Asian film & video on a monthly basis. She sits on the Board of Directors of Alwan for the Arts, a NYC-based Arab & Iranian cultural organization and recently finished a three-year term on the board of the South Asian Women's Creative Collective. Prior to working at the Queens Museum, she was a curator and program administrator for the New York African Film Festival. She has co-edited a book of interviews with African directors entitled "Through African Eyes" as well as curated an exhibition of African video art "Digital Africa" at Electronic Arts Intermix.

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