Jacqueline Najuma Stewart[1] is a
University of Chicago professor of cinema studies[2] and director of the nonprofit arts organization, Black Cinema House.[3] She has written about the history of
African Americans in filmmaking in Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity (2005), co-authored, L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema (2015), and with Charles Musser co-curated the DVD set Pioneers of African-American Cinema (2016).[4] Stewart has served on the
National Film Preservation Board (NFPB) of the
Library of Congress and chaired the NFPB Diversity Task Force.[5] In 2005, she founded the South Side Home Movie Project, which collects, preserves, as a cultural and historical resource, the homemade films of residents of
South Side, Chicago, together with interviews of creators.[6]
In September 2019, Stewart also became the first African-American host of
Turner Classic Movies, as host for Silent Sunday Nights.[5] Taking a sabbatical from the university, in 2021 she was named the inaugural artistic director at the
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.[7][8]
^"Graham Foundation > Events". Graham Foundation.
Archived from the original on December 11, 2019. Retrieved November 1, 2017. Jacqueline Stewart is ... co-curator of the L.A. Rebellion project at the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Her film work in Chicago includes founding the South Side Home Movie Project and serving as Curator of Black Cinema House, a neighborhood-based film exhibition venue run by Theaster Gates' Rebuild Foundation.
^"The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Appoints Jacqueline Stewart as New Director and President". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 6 July 2022. Retrieved 11 July 2022. he Board of Trustees of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures announced the appointment of Jacqueline Stewart as the director and president of the institution. Stewart has served as chief artistic and programming officer of the Academy Museum since 2020.