RPM alumni Pallavi Somusetty has been selected as for a 2022 CAAM Fellowship, where she will be incubating a project currently titled “Welcome Home Jhaiji.”

Pallavi participated in the Athena Film Festival’s Works In Progress Pitch Forum on March 11th, 2022, where she virtually pitched a feature version of “Coach Emily” a short that Pallavi produced with Re-Take Oakland.

Pallavi also received a grant from The Studio IX Project to support childcare while she works on Coach Emily and Welcome Home Jhaiji. 

Congratulations to Pallavi and her team!

Post Re-Take Oakland program, Corinne Manabat Cueva’s Synchronized, has screened at CAAMFest, Oakland International Film Festival, COVEN Film Festival, Seattle Asian American Film Festival, and the 35th Annual Emeryville Art Exhibition. With the film, Corinne has presented at 2021’s Association for Asian American Studies Conference and Living Creatively Film Fest with Nicole Cruz’s Living Bravely program. Shortly after the program, Corinne had the opportunity with A-Doc Network to create a microdoc, Keeping It Creative, part of the #AsianAmResilience series. Corinne has also received an artist in residency with Kala Art Institute and 2021 Investing in Artist grant with Center for Cultural Innovation for her project, A Million Kisses from Lolo, a personal documentary hybrid piece about her grandfather — a Filipino WWII veteran who wrote a screenplay inspired by his wartime experiences– that explores the themes of creative legacy, generational trauma, loss, and resilience. Follow her on IG: @corinnemakesmedia or corinnemakesmedia.com

A.K. Sandhu’s latest short documentary, For Love and Legacy, follows the journey of two women working to honor the Black Panther Party’s vital place in American history. Dana King, an ex-News Broadcaster, reborn as a Sculptor, now casting Black bodies in bronze. Activist Fredrika Newton, widow of Dr. Huey P. Newton, former Black Panther Party member, and Co-Founder/President of the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation, established to preserve and share the true legacy of the Black Panther Party.
 

For more information about the film please head to https://www.forloveandlegacy.film/. The film is currently on the festival circuit and has been selected at the following festivals, more information about screening dates also on the film website.

• Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival / March 25th at 7pm and March 26th at 4:15pm
• Ashland Film Festival / April 1st – 10th [Virtual]
• Sarasota Film Festival / April 1st- 10th [Virtual]
• Seattle International Film Festival / April 15th at 3pm
• San Francisco International Film Festival / April 22nd at 6pm and May 2nd at 12:30pm
• Pan African Film Festival / April 22nd at 4:10pm and April 23rd at 9:30pm