Two Re-Take Oakland filmmakers were awarded a 2024 Berkeley FILM Foundation Grant. Congratulations to Jessica Jones (Women Who Ride) and Pallavi Somusetty (The Aunties – working title)!
Women Who Ride is an intimate portrait of D’Vious Wayz Motorcycle Club, Oakland’s first Black all-women motorcycle club. Led by Tish Edwards, this group has been together for 20 years, but as membership dwindles during COVID and family responsibilities mount, multiple challenges will need to be addressed on the journey ahead.
The Aunties tells the story of Berkeley-based historian and artist, Barnali, who spearheads a grassroots campaign to rename a street after Kala Bagai, one of the first South Asian women to organize South Asian communities in California against intense racial discrimination, over a hundred years ago.