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BAMMS aims to cultivate a healthy and inclusive Bay Area filmmaking community.

The Bay Area Media Maker Summit (BAMMS) was formed in 2021 as a collective to create a
more inclusive and sustainable ecosystem for media makers in the Bay Area. Our founding team
was inspired by the South Summit produced by the New Orleans Film Society. Aiming to adapt
their model of learning and connecting as a region for our Bay Area media making community,
that continues to shift and change through the pandemic, the racial reckoning, political distrust
and violence, and extreme economic inequities. We set out to create BAMMS in community with
an expansive group of media makers and organizations, to forge intergenerational relationships,
and to convene activities in San Francisco and the East Bay (the latter to disabuse the notion that
film and media making is only active in San Francisco County and does not extend to Alameda,
Contra Costa, Santa Clara, San Mateo, Marin, Solano, Sonoma, Napa, and Santa Cruz counties).

09/25/2026

🌞 BAMMS 2026: Summer Sessions this Sunday, September 27 in San Francisco.

Join us at 10:30 am for our Documentary Filmmaking: Activating the Archive panel.

Archival content can transform your documentary into a more immersive and dynamic film. Hear from experienced documentary filmmakers, collection holders, and archival preservationists about identifying, sourcing, and implementing these assets for your own documentary project

Panelists:
• Christopher Castro (chris castro)
• Guadalupe Martinez
• Ashley O’Shay (ash)

Moderated by Niema Jordan

Presented by BAVC Media (Bay Area Video Coalition) & cinemama.film

All events are FREE. Register now at bammsummit.org (link in bio)

🗓️ BAMMS 2026: Summer Sessions Program:

📍518 VALENCIA
• 10:00am: Cafe + Conchas
• 10:30am: Documentary Filmmaking: Activating the Archive
• 12:30pm: Latinx Filmmaking in the Bay Area: Getting Started

📍GOLDEN GATE PARK
• 2pm: Lamb & Rum Fest: Volume XI (Hosted by the Law Office of George M Rush)

Presented by BAVC Media (Bay Area Video Coalition), cinemama.film, CiNEOLA & The Roxie Theater

09/23/2026

🌞 BAMMS 2026: Summer Sessions this Sunday, September 27 in San Francisco.

Join us at 12:30 pm for our second annual Latinx Filmmaking in the Bay Area panel.

From an idea to finding support and audience building, join our panel of local filmmakers as they discuss what helped them get their passion project started. We will explore Samantha Berlanga’s feature-length documentary, Pleasure Seekers, supported by the BAVC MediaMaker Fellowship; Sofia Camargo’s upcoming short La Selva, supported by Vimeo Short Film Grant; and Nicole Amyx’s short film Dipsea Generations, supported by The North Face and Seed and Spark Supporters.

Panelists:
• Nicole Amyx (Nicole Amyx)
• Samantha Berlanga (Samantita Ariel Berlanga Flor)
• Sofia Camargo (Sofia Camargo)

Moderated by Diana Sánchez Maciel

Presented by CiNEOLA & BAVC Media (Bay Area Video Coalition)

All events are FREE. Register now at bammsummit.org (link in bio)

🗓️ BAMMS 2026: Summer Sessions Program:

📍518 VALENCIA
• 10:30am: Cafe + Conchas
• 11am: Documentary Filmmaking: Activating the Archive
• 12:30pm: Latinx Filmmaking in the Bay Area: Getting Started

📍GOLDEN GATE PARK
• 2pm: Lamb & Rum Fest: Volume XI (Hosted by the Law Office of George M Rush)

Presented by BAVC Media (Bay Area Video Coalition), cinemama.film, CiNEOLA & The Roxie Theater

09/04/2026

🌞 BAMMS 2026: Summer Sessions program is now live! Join us on Sunday, September 27 in San Francisco.

All events are FREE. Register now at bammsummit.org (link in bio)

Program:

📍518 VALENCIA
• 10:30am: Cafe + Conchas
• 11am: Documentary Filmmaking: Activating the Archive
• 12:30pm: Latinx Filmmaking in the Bay Area: Getting Started

📍GOLDEN GATE PARK
• 2pm: Lamb & Rum Fest: Volume XI (Hosted by the Law Office of George M Rush)

Presented by BAVC Media (Bay Area Video Coalition), cinemama.film, CiNEOLA & The Roxie Theater

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San Francisco, CA

Website

https://www.bammsummit.org/

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