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

Re-Take Oakland filmmaker, Jay Gash, was the Director of Photography and Editor on the short film, Equity at Work: ReWork the Bay’s Journey to Reimagining an Equitable Economy, in collaboration with Producer, Niema Jordan. ReWork the Bay is a powerful initiative committed to transforming the Bay Area’s workforce ecosystem by empowering workers, fostering cross-sector collaboration, […]

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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 […]

Oct

18

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.