We are excited to announce our 2025 For Us, By Us fellows!

The For Us, By Us Filmmaker Incubator, presented by Filmmakers Collaborative SF and Re-Present Media, is a seven month intensive that supports a cohort of local documentary filmmakers of different backgrounds who are telling personal stories from Bay Area communities not often seen in media.

From March-September 2025, the filmmakers will participate in workshops, receive mentoring, and use program stipends to strategically advance their films. The program will culminate in a works-in-progress screening.

The selected projects include thoughtful intergenerational stories and powerful portraits of local community members that can help us enrich our understanding of each other and ourselves.

Congratulations to our new fellows:

  • Diana Diroy, Seeds of Ancestral Memory
  • Jay Gash, Black High Tea
  • Rose Hoang, On Woody Lane
  • Deepa Nair, From Civil Rights to Crunch Cakes
  • Thanh Tran, Finding Má

We look forward to supporting these filmmakers on their journeys!

Learn more about the filmmakers and their projects.

This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.