FILMMAKER SUPPORT
Our professional development activities include public and cohort-based programs, including mentoring, masterclasses, and workshops.
Current Activities
For Us, By Us Filmmaker Incubator
The For Us, By Us Filmmaker Incubator nurtures a cohort of Bay Area documentary filmmakers from different backgrounds who are telling personal stories from communities in the Bay Area not often seen in media.
This seven-month intensive offers workshops, mentoring, and filmmaker stipends.
Learn more about the 2025 fellows!
About the 2023-2024 Incubator
In 2023, Re-Present Media and Filmmakers Collaborative SF launched the For Us, By Us Filmmaker Incubator with an inaugural cohort of seven filmmakers.
Following the six month program, we collaborated with the filmmakers to present community screenings and discussions in our event series, For Us, By Us: Our Beloved Communities.
Filmmaker Updates
Angie Morales, editor
Editor Development Program
Our Editor Development Program supports an emerging BIPOC editor in editing a feature length documentary film through weekly mentorship meetings, technical editing advice, and a participant stipend.
Doc Watchers
We gather documentary film professionals to watch and discuss recent and past documentary films, including works-in-progress. We meet in downtown Oakland.
If you are interested in joining, please fill out our contact form and mention “Doc Watchers.”
Past Activities
Re-Take Oakland (2019-2021)
Re-Take Oakland was a two-year public education and filmmaker mentoring program. 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.
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.
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.
Re-Take Oakland filmmakers presented their films at Oaktown Stories, a film screening and community dialogue series.