Seeds of Ancestral Memory, directed by For Us, By Us fellow Diana Diroy, was awarded a 2026 Berkeley Film Foundation Documentary Grant. Berkeley Film Foundation is supporting 30 documentary projects. The selected projects explore questions of identity, community, history, displacement, resistance, creativity, family, and belonging, bringing distinctive voices and often underrepresented stories to the screen. […]

For Us, By Us fellow Thanh Tran was selected for the Sundance Institute | The Asian American Foundation Fellowship. Fellows receive a $20,000 grant and the Artist Accelerator Program’s year-round support: hands-on guidance and bespoke project support, access to script consultancies, invitations to professional development programming, and a stipend to attend the 2027 Sundance Film […]

Re-Take Oakland filmmaker Jenn Lee Smith is a co-executive producer on the film Sara Bareilles: Good Grief, which will open in cinemas across the United States on September 2. The film will screen in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami and more than 35 other cities following its premiere at this year’s Tribeca Festival. Sara […]