The BAVC MediaMaker Fellowship was established in 1991 to support emerging filmmakers and diverse projects.
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These filmmakers have already achieved so much, often with very little support.
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Were honored to be able to guide them through the important next steps in their journey.
In Mexico, Blackness is shamed, with lighter skin being preferred.
Marlen, a radiant Afro-Mexican model, seeks answers about her own identity and familial history.
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A protector and budding poet, she speaks her truth through rhythmic verse.
The pair transform Brooklyn into their playground before Tamias departure to college separates them for the first time.
Can Tamia go away without the cycle resetting for her little sister?
Unfilteredis a tender and timely story of love, sisterhood, intergenerational healing, and second chances.
Caron Creightonis a Black, biracial woman and an award winning journalist and filmmaker.
She has reported on Israel/Palestine, global African migration patterns, and the Bay Areas homelessness crisis.
They moved there eight years ago after police pushed them from other encampments around the city.
After a devastating fire, their tight-knit community faces eviction.
Its their goal to stop it.
Patrick G. Lee(they/them) is a queer diasporic Korean filmmaker, writer, and community organizer.
Patrick is interested in building collaborative models of filmmaking that equip LGBTQ people of color with media-making skills.
Their most recent project,Unspoken, won several festival awards and is educationally distributed by Third World Newsreel.
Ivan MacDonaldis an Emmy-winning filmmaker and an enrolled member of the Blackfeet tribe.
His most recent projectBring Them Homewon the Big Sky Award at the 2024 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival.
Bring Them Homeis Executive Produced and narrated by Oscar-nominated actress Lily Gladstone.
Her films focus on exploring how the process of making art intersects with how we articulate ourselves.
She artfully cares for her 3 year-old son while creating a show about motherhood in chunks.
