The Emoji Story: A Film Screening and Conversation About Food and Representation

As entertaining as it is thought-provoking, The Emoji Story, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival as Picture Character, looks at the role that technology companies play in regulating the emoji on our keyboards — and the grassroots advocates around the world who are pushing to make the keyboards more representative and diverse. While society often emphasizes the importance of representation on the Big Screen of Hollywood, this documentary movingly explains the power of representation on the Small Screen; on mobile devices that billions of people hold in their hands every single day.

Join MOFAD and Push Projects for a screening of The Emoji Story and a panel conversation led by the film’s producer Jennifer 8 Lee and several of the activists responsible for food emoji representation. Lee will be in conversation with Yiying Lu and Sebastian Delmont, the forces behind the Boba and Arepa emojis respectively, about the social and economic power that food emojis hold.

Please note the panel conversation will be held over zoom on January 12th from 8-9pm EST. The zoom link will be in your ticket confirmation email.

A separate link for viewing the film will be emailed to ticket holders before the event.