FILMMAKER SUPPORT
Our professional development activities include public and cohort-based programs, including film presentations with community dialogues, mentoring, masterclasses, and consulting. Our focus is on serving underrepresented communities.
Current Activities
Past Programs
Re-Take Oakland is a two-year public education and filmmaker mentoring program started in 2019. Documentary filmmakers of color created short personal films featuring stories of individuals, families, and communities in Oakland. They presented these films in collaboration with community partners in post-film dialogues.
Throughout the program, we offered master classes, film screenings with private filmmaker talks, and mentoring with award-winning documentary filmmakers. Modest stipends were available to filmmakers for production costs.
We focused on emerging filmmakers of color living in the San Francisco Bay Area, with priority given to Oaklanders identifying as Asian American (including South, East, and Southeast Asian), mixed race, and LGBTQ+ people of color.
(more about Re-Take Oakland)
