Be a part of the conversation! Join us for discussions about how to get funding for your upcoming film. We invite filmmakers, aspiring filmmakers and film lovers alike to join the conversation!
This panel is FREE to attend, RSVP to reserve your seat in Fort Mason’s Magic Theater on Friday November 10.
Davin Agatep is the Associate Manager of Initiatives for Independent Television Service (ITVS). He previously managed the Media Fund at the Center for Asian American Media, where he also helped to start and co-manage their Asian American home movie archive, “Memories to Light.“
Independent Television Services (ITVS) is the largest co-producer of independent documentaries in the United States. For more than 30 years the San Francisco non-profit has funded and partnered with documentary filmmakers to produce and distribute untold stories. ITVS incubates and co-produces these award-winning titles and premieres them on our Emmy® Award-winning PBS series, INDEPENDENT LENS. ITVS titles appear on PBS, WORLD, NETA, and can be streamed on various digital platforms including the PBS app. ITVS is funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Acton Family Giving, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Ford Foundation, Wyncote Foundation. For more information, visit itvs.org
Vision Maker Media’s mission is empowering and engaging Native people to share stories.
We envision a world changed and healed by understanding Native stories and the public conversations they generate.
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Dawn Valadez (she/her/ ella) is a queer, Xicana, filmmaker, social worker, and resource wrangler. She is the Producer/ Co-director of The Pushouts (2018) with Katie Galloway - winner of the 2019 Imagen Best Documentary award and a Sundance/SKOLL Stories of Change project. Her award-winning first film, Going On 13 (2008), premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and has screened internationally. Dawn is a producer, consulting producer, or co-producer on a number of projects including, Hummingbirds with directors Silvia Del Carmen Castaños and Estefanía "Beba" Contreras (2023), Manzanar, Diverted (Ann Kaneko, 2021), Vivien’s Wild Ride with master editor Vivien Hillgrove (in production), Madres Qué Luchan/Warrior Mothers with Rodrigo Reyes (in production). Dawn is a member of Brown Girls Doc Mafia and the Film Fatales.
Among her many accomplishments, Dawn co-founded the award-winning BAYAC AmeriCorps Program, created a Cesar Chavez Memorial Youth Leadership Memorial and Council, and has trained hundreds of teachers and youth development workers. Dawn is a proud graduate of UC Berkeley’s School of Social Welfare and is the Director of Youth and Artistic Development and the Co-Director of the Media Maker Fellowship at BAVC Media.
BAVC Media is a community hub and resource for media makers in the Bay Area, serving thousands of media makers, artists, and activists every year. We inspire social change by empowering media makers to develop and share diverse stories through art, education, and technology. BAVC Media's services include artist development, training, preservation, youth programs, community media, and production.
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