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 th
rough 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).
