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BraveMaker Film Fest Redwood City ∙ Annual film July 11-4, 2024 in person. A community that loves art and film is a community that loves good stories.

BraveMaker Film Fest will feature stories that entwine the human condition, elevate hope, and intersect meaningful questions in today's culture. Love, race, poverty, hope, death, mystery, and the beyond. We are looking for films that move us and cause us to have significant conversations that deepen our understanding of why we all exist.

31/10/2024

It's here! Our 6th annual film fest recap!

Partner with us for next year--
so together, we can bring year 7 to life!

🧛🏻‍♂️🧛🏻‍♀️ Who's ready to bare your fangs? + that's who. 🎨 ‘A Future For Everyone’By: MCXT // Monica Canilao + Xara Th...
12/10/2024

🧛🏻‍♂️🧛🏻‍♀️
Who's ready to bare your fangs?
+ that's who.

🎨 ‘A Future For Everyone’
By: MCXT // Monica Canilao + Xara Thustra
📍 Redwood City
📸

Bay Area--I'm looking for FOSTER PARENTS and people who work within the foster system to attend this BraveMaker event. I...
04/10/2024

Bay Area--I'm looking for FOSTER PARENTS and people who work within the foster system to attend this BraveMaker event. I'd love to get a panelist to speak on the the topic of FOSTER PARENTING Monday 11/4. 6:30pm. TAG below or email me: [email protected]

A brazen tween is thrust into the guardianship of her half-sister whose attempts to parent only lead to exposing their parallel past pain.

Filmmaker | Fest founder: has been an actor for most of his life. He became a filmmaker after his first trip to the Fi...
28/09/2024

Filmmaker | Fest founder: has been an actor for most of his life. He became a filmmaker after his first trip to the Film Fest in 2013. He started in 2018 to create an impactful and empowering film community in the Bay Area that elevates brave stories for justice, diversity and inclusion.

He writes/produces and directs films. His first feature film LAST CHANCE CHARLENE released in 2022. He continues to produce shorts, write TV scripts and prepare his next feature films for production while podcasting, running the and finding sponsors for next year's film fest.

🎨 ‘A Future For Everyone’
By: MCXT // Monica Canilao + Xara Thustra
📍 Redwood City
📸

Fest programmer | Producer has been on the fest team since our inception in 2018. She can usually be found welcoming fi...
28/09/2024

Fest programmer | Producer has been on the fest team since our inception in 2018. She can usually be found welcoming filmmakers and audiences at our events, running errands and working behind the scenes to pull off our workshops and parties. Jessica has been producing films with and in the greater Bay Area for over a decade after getting her start in animation.

🎨 ‘A Future For Everyone’
By: MCXT // Monica Canilao + Xara Thustra
📍 Redwood City
📸

Filmmaker screened her film PEARL IN THE WINDOW in our shorts program this year. Her film was inspired by her 87 year o...
28/09/2024

Filmmaker
screened her film PEARL IN THE WINDOW in our shorts program this year. Her film was inspired by her 87 year old great aunt who lives in a small apartment overlooking a park in Istanbul, and her caregiver.

Filmmaker Nil Unerdem moved from Istanbul, Turkey to Sunnyvale, CA at the age of six. Obsessed with movies, she directed elaborate plays in her living room, much to the chagrin of her parents’ dinner party friends.

As the daughter of immigrants, she followed the “safe” path, studying engineering at Stanford and then at Columbia, although her favorite classes were about poetry, writing, history, and film.

Filmmaker | Advocate fiercely passionate approach to storytelling and filmmaking is a grand collision of her past exper...
27/09/2024

Filmmaker | Advocate fiercely passionate approach to storytelling and filmmaking is a grand collision of her past experiences as theatrical director, choreographer and performer. Her live work has been presented across the US from Broadway to Lincoln Center Out-Of-Doors to the Presidential Task Force on Disabilities Showcase in Washington DC, to performances for international dignitaries and pop-band tours in France, Germany, Scotland, Guatemala, Italy, Japan and Thailand. She has been featured on BBC-TV, ABC, NBC, Fox and Moscow Television and WJCT/NPR radio. Her career has fortuitously led her to work with individuals who happen to be amputees, paraplegic, wheelchair users, d/Deaf, blind, neurodiverse and neurotypical.

We were honored to showcase her film MANDY'S VOICE on our opening night in the Redwood City Courthouse Square under the stars.

🎨 ‘A Future For Everyone’
By: MCXT // Monica Canilao + Xara Thustra
📍 Redwood City
📸

26/09/2024

Nidhi is a passionate advocate for ethical and equitable technology. She has been working in AI policy advocacy for the past 2.5 years, with a specific focus on placing prohibitions on cybersurveillance nationally and internationally. As a proud Bay Area native, she wants to protect the vibrancy and diversity of Bay Area culture that she loves so much. She believes that everyone has a right to privacy, and that people need to break through their perceived hopelessness about the situation to fight for that right. She is a first-time filmmaker who is excited to explore the world of documentary-making!

Want to create live streams like this? Check out StreamYard: https://streamyard.com/pal/d/6734003265077248

Filmmaker | BraveMaker summer Intern : came to is from Oakland's . We were so grateful to have Khalid the summer learn ...
17/09/2024

Filmmaker | BraveMaker summer Intern : came to is from Oakland's . We were so grateful to have Khalid the summer learn with us and create videos before he took off to college in Southern California. Khalid loves to tell stories and has an optimistic and friendly perspective on life. We wish him great success and that many doors open for him to achieve his creative goals.

🎨 ‘A Future For Everyone’
By: MCXT // Monica Canilao + Xara Thustra
📍 Redwood City
📸

Filmmaker | BraveMaker team member: is in his second year with BraveMaker and hails and commutes from Sacramento which ...
17/09/2024

Filmmaker | BraveMaker team member: is in his second year with BraveMaker and hails and commutes from Sacramento which demonstrates his commitment to Bay Area film. Airric acts and produces indie film in Sacramento and contributes to a thriving creative community giving many other actors and filmmakers opportunities to practice their craft. His work ethic is constantly on display as he leads his own film group and YouTube channel and produces film with which had films in the fest with us over the past few years.
🎨 ‘A Future For Everyone’
By: MCXT // Monica Canilao + Xara Thustra
📍 Redwood City
📸

Filmmaker | creator: made history with us at BraveMaker for being our first ever SECRET FILM SCREENING on opening nigh...
17/09/2024

Filmmaker | creator: made history with us at BraveMaker for being our first ever SECRET FILM SCREENING on opening night. With a drag performance and a dress to the nines late night red carpet premiere, the LGBTQ+ community was celebrated at this secret film event with success. The filled with laughter as Anthony shared his feature animated film MAXXIE LAWOW: DRAG SUPER-SHERO with some cast and crew in attendance! We had so much fun, we hope to do more special screenings like this in the future.
🎨 ‘A Future For Everyone’
By: MCXT // Monica Canilao + Xara Thustra
📍 Redwood City
📸

Submit your horror/thriller to be SCREENED at our annual HALLOWEEN PARTY 10/26
10/09/2024

Submit your horror/thriller to be SCREENED at our annual HALLOWEEN PARTY 10/26

BraveMaker's annual Halloween party has been going on for four years. It's an all out costume DJ/dance party with spooky/Halloween shorts!

Producer | Team Member: .an.i.productions came as an attendee in 2022 and then joined our team in 2023 and 2024. Not onl...
09/09/2024

Producer | Team Member: .an.i.productions came as an attendee in 2022 and then joined our team in 2023 and 2024. Not only is Kelli a partner in BraveMaker work, she has been a producer on multiple short films and with BraveMaker connections connected into other opportunities to produce films in our creative community! She had three different short films on the Film Fest screen this year!

Actor | Team Member: is an artist and filmmaker based in East Palo Alto. He has been on our team since we started in 20...
07/09/2024

Actor | Team Member: is an artist and filmmaker based in East Palo Alto. He has been on our team since we started in 2018. He can often be seen bringing the joy to anyone he meets, filming anything and everything behind the scenes creating cool videos. Thanks Diquan for who you are and what you do!

🎨 ‘A Future For Everyone’
By: MCXT // Monica Canilao + Xara Thustra
📍 Redwood City
📸

Actor | Board VP: is a driving leadership force on our team. With her background in Silicon Valley tech, Adrienne guide...
30/08/2024

Actor | Board VP: is a driving leadership force on our team. With her background in Silicon Valley tech, Adrienne guides our organization, keeps us professionally developing and enable us to achieve our goals. During the film festival she was seen also on screen in our shorts. She also was a co-producer of , as well as our fest VIP liason (supporting our filmmakers and coordinating details for our VIPs). Ultimately, her dream is to act and produce: so hire her, she always delivers! We love having her on our team and in our films.

🎨 ‘A Future For Everyone’
By: MCXT // Monica Canilao + Xara Thustra
📍 Redwood City
📸

Actor | Team Member: volunteered her heart out during the fest. She brought incredible value to the team, was a self st...
27/08/2024

Actor | Team Member: volunteered her heart out during the fest. She brought incredible value to the team, was a self starter (who solved problems before anyone knew they needed to be solved) and brought warmth, friendliness and positivity in all of her interactions. Fun fact, she starred in a short film that was selected for our 2020 film festival when we had to go all online!

We are grateful to have her back in the mix as well as a new member of our . You'll be seeing more of Senait!

🎨 ‘A Future For Everyone’
By: MCXT // Monica Canilao + Xara Thustra
📍 Redwood City
📸

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BraveMaker's 6th annual film fest
BraveMaker's 6th annual film fest

It's here! Our 6th annual film fest recap! Partner with us for next year-- so together, we can bring year 7 to life!

261: Surveillance Society: A Filmmaker’s Journey to Unmask AI's Dark Side
261: Surveillance Society: A Filmmaker’s Journey to Unmask AI's Dark Side

Nidhi is a passionate advocate for ethical and equitable technology. She has been working in AI policy advocacy for the past 2.5 years, with a specific focus on placing prohibitions on cybersurveillance nationally and internationally. As a proud Bay Area native, she wants to protect the vibrancy and diversity of Bay Area culture that she loves so much. She believes that everyone has a right to privacy, and that people need to break through their perceived hopelessness about the situation to fight for that right. She is a first-time filmmaker who is excited to explore the world of documentary-making! Want to create live streams like this? Check out StreamYard: https://streamyard.com/pal/d/6734003265077248

252: Surviving the LOWS of filmmaking with Nordic Tony Gapastione
252: Surviving the LOWS of filmmaking with Nordic Tony Gapastione

What can you do to SURVIVE the tough times in filmmaking? ⁠ What can you do when you feel LOW, discouraged and/or depressed after a film shoot? OR what do you do when crashing/coming down after HIGH HIGHS of @bravemakerfilmfest? ⁠ ⁠ @tonygapastione will talk through some ideas for episode 252 of the #BraveMakerPodcast⁠ ⁠ Listen LIVE on our Youtube/Twitter/Facbebook or grab the replay wherever you get your podcasts. ⁠ Want to create live streams like this? Check out StreamYard: https://streamyard.com/pal/d/6734003265077248

249: Tony's talks to himself about the film fest. Should we do it again?
249: Tony's talks to himself about the film fest. Should we do it again?

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248: Feature Filmmaker Jesse Kuba made a film about Black Joy in San Francisco
248: Feature Filmmaker Jesse Kuba made a film about Black Joy in San Francisco

Born and raised in Nigeria, Jesse Kuba moved to San Jose, California at the age of 17. A graduate from SFSU’s Film school. Jesse has a unique perspective on how we see each other, and a fervent belief in the importance of storytelling, and seeing indigenous stories on screen. He has directed two acclaimed shorts and his first feature film (The Moon is in Aquarius). THE MOON IS IN AQUARIUS screens Friday July 12th. www.kubanproductions.com Want to create live streams like this? Check out StreamYard: https://streamyard.com/pal/d/6734003265077248

246: A documentary about "DAUGHTERS" reuniting with their incarerated fathers
246: A documentary about "DAUGHTERS" reuniting with their incarerated fathers

Meet the filmmakers of our opening night film: DAUGHTERS, a multi-award winning Sundance 2024 film. Angela Patton, Co-Director, Executive Producer Angela Patton, CEO of Girls For A Change, is committed to advancing opportunities for Black girls. Her TEDWomen talk garnered over one million views and inspired the making of Daughters. As a speaker, author, and co-director, Patton is dedicated to celebrating and sharing the multifaceted experiences of Black girls. Lisa Mazzotta, Producer Lisa Mazzotta is a multiple award-winning producer, dedicated to sharing stories to ignite positive social change. Her work on the award-winning documentary RiverBlue led to tangible reform in the fashion industry, and her work on NBC's hit show Heroes led NBC.com to win its first Primetime Emmy Award. With Daughters, she continues to share the stories that shed light on important issues. Chad M. Morris is the Chief Executive Officer of Trinity Village Center at Trinity Family Life Center (TFLC) in Richmond, Virginia. Trinity Baptist Church established Trinity Village Center a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization which operates Trinity Family Life Center. TFLC’s Strengthening Families Uplifting Communities Program is a national pilot for Casey Family Programs’ faith- based initiative—a part of their 20/20 Strategy. Chad’s approach to family strengthening and community regeneration has been demonstrated through the development and implementation of the following TFLC Programs: Positive Paths: A Resource Center for Foster Care Alumni, Responsible Fatherhood, Motherhood and Co-parenting Support Groups, Youth Rites of Passage and The R.O.P.E.S. Youth Violence Prevention Program. Chad is a speaker, advocate for social change, an NPCL Certified Fatherhood and Family Life Coach, Master Trainer and Legacy Mentor. In his work with men, fathers, and families, Chad developed The Proving Grounds: Success and Wellness Strategies, focusing on supporting positive shifts in mindset, values

One week from today--here's a teaser of some of the inspiring and brave films screening over four days July 11th -14th. https://bravemaker.com/film-fest/

245: Giving and taking in filmmaking
245: Giving and taking in filmmaking

Tony Gapastione shares thoughts on bringing value as a filmmaker no matter what your role. Want to create live streams like this? Check out StreamYard: https://streamyard.com/pal/d/6734003265077248

244: Best Practices for filmmakers who want to get into film fests
244: Best Practices for filmmakers who want to get into film fests

Make sure your film is ready to go! Rough cuts aren't always the best Fill out your submissions, Film Freeway completely Respond to emails Be prepared. Research the fest, be ready. Know what a DCP is and get it ready Open Captions Don't wait until the deadline Interact on social media and develop relationships ahead of time Want to create live streams like this? Check out StreamYard: https://streamyard.com/pal/d/6734003265077248

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