Re-Take Oakland, Re-Present Media

RE-TAKE OAKLAND

Re-Take Oakland was a two-year public education and filmmaker mentoring program (2019-2021). 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.

Filmmaker Updates

Sammy’s Final Arrangement, directed by For Us, By Us fellow, Chad Santo Tomas, screened at the 2024 Silicon Valley Asian Pacific FilmFest as part of the Bay Area Shorts program on October 19. In Sammy’s Final Arrangement, Samuel Go must come to terms with the stresses and the dwindling creative freedom that have resulted in […]

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A-Doc has announced its new Co-Directors, Cindy Choung and Pallavi Somusetty. Re-Take Oakland filmmaker, Pallavi Somusetty, previously worked as a series producer for A-Doc and in nonprofit youth media. Read Cindy and Pallavi’s interview with each other in IDA’s Documentary Magazine.

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The Long Rescue, directed by Re-Take Oakland filmmaker Jennifer Huang, has been selected for Producers Connection at IDFA Forum 2024. Producers Connection presentations focus on supporting projects looking to finance their films through international co-production. The presentation will be on November 17, 2024. The Long Rescue follows Filipina teen sex trafficking survivors for nine years […]