Rizky Rahad

Rizky Rahad (he/him) is an Indonesian filmmaker, programmer, and researcher exploring queer cinema as ‘rebellious worldmaking’. Currently co-running cinema collective QAMERAD in Bali, Rizky’s latest film H-O-R chronicles survivors of anti-trans violence resisting surveillance, while his book QUEERS SHOOT BACK! imagines a liberatory queer cinema beyond neoliberal visibility politics. Rizky is a recipient of the 2026 Bertha Artivism Awards, 2025 Flaherty Fellowship, and 2024 British Council’s Connection Through Culture grant. QAMERAD is a Bali-based queer cinema collective organising guerrilla screenings and community-led workshops. Viewing cinema as a tool for commoning, QAMERAD gathers communities to redistribute resources and imagine alternatives under regimes of surveillance and control, privileging opacity and radical aesthetics as strategies for collective survival and queer world-building.