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Category: Filmmaker Support – Filmmaker Updates
Congratulations to Re-Take Oakland filmmaker, Jennifer Huang, who won The Great Chicago Pitch for The Long Rescue. The film will receive $50,000 as part of the inaugural Shifting Voices Film Fund, sponsored by CMP and Mezcla Media Collective.
The Long Rescue follows Filipina teen sex trafficking survivors for six years where we learn of their dark pasts through brief flashbacks that reveal the cyclical nature of exploitation that haunts women and their children for generations.
Re-Take Oakland filmmaker A.K. Sandhu is screening For Love and Legacy this weekend as part of Tribeca Film Festival’s Juneteenth program.
The film tells the personal stories of sculptor Dana King and activist Fredrika Newton who come together to build a new monument that honors the Black Panther Party’s vital place in American history.
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Congratulations to Re-Take Oakland filmmaker, Lucy Saephan, who received the 2022 CAAMFEST Loni Ding Award for Social Justice Documentary, for My Name is Lai.
In My Name is Lai, a first generation Mien American elder, shares the events leading up to her arrival to the U.S. as a refugee survivor of war. Lai retraces moments of her life from memories as a young child, to being a newly arrived refugee finding her way in the U.S. Through these memories, Lai reflects on her life, passing on cultural traditions, fears of losing her independence, and hopes for the future.
When the Garden Comes, directed by Re-Take Oakland filmmaker Jay Gash, is screening at the Queer Women of Color Film Festival on Sunday, June 12th at 5pm at the Presidio Theater in San Francisco.
The Film Festival will be held in-person at the renovated Presidio Theatre, 99 Moraga Avenue inside the San Francisco Presidio.
When the Garden Comes follows how the legacy of homeownership and gardening pumps through the veins of a Black family in North Oakland.
For more information, visit: https://festival2022.qwocmap.org/
Re-Take Oakland alumni A.K. Sandhu’s short film “For Love and Legacy” will be having its San Francisco premiere on Friday, April 22nd at 6:00pm at The Roxie Theater as part of the SF International Film Festival. More info and tickets.
Alumni Jennifer Huang wins €5000 from Storyboard Collective as a part of their pitch competition at the Movies that Matter festival in the Hague with her feature-length documentary The Long Rescue. Congratulations to Jennifer!
RPM alumni Jessica Jones’ latest short film “On the Pulse of Life” made in partnership with BElovedBIRTH Black Centering (a part of the Alameda County Health System), is executive produced by The Alliance Media Arts + Culture and premiered at THE FUTURES exhibit at the Smithsonian Arts + Industries Building as a part of the Futures We Dream documentary film series. The exhibit will be available for viewing until July 9, 2022, so if you are in DC, please check it out!
Jessica recently had a screening on April 11th in the Bay Area to kick off Black Maternal Health Week.
RPM alumni Jennifer Huang will be participating in the Movies that Matter “Take on Impact” program in the Hague in April with her feature-length documentary The Long Rescue.
The program works with filmmaking teams to develop impact goals and strategies for their films, with the focus on improving the projects’ impact pitches which will then be presented in front of a panel of NGOs, distributors, and other changemakers related to the outreach goals of the projects.
Jennifer Huang’s This Adventure Called California will be screening at Cinequest Film and Creativity Festival virtually from April 1 – 17, 2022. More information and tickets available here.