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A still from \u201cTDK: The Dream Kontinues\u201d of Lil John, brother of Mike \u201cDream\u201d Francisco (Courtesy of Pendarvis Harshaw)<\/p>\nFilms by Oakland-based filmmakers or set in the city will be screened at the New Parkway Theater Sunday as part of Oakland Style Week, an annual festival organized by Visit Oakland.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The showcase \u2014 \u201cOakland Made\u201d \u2014 also will raise funds to support community events and screenings through Cinemama, a Bay Area film nonprofit.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBringing more events, more workshops also puts us in the space where we can pay more creatives to lead more workshops,\u201d said Niema Jordan, an Oakland-based\u00a0documentary filmmaker and executive director of Cinemama. \u201cOur goal with the series is to find ways to highlight Oakland filmmakers and also show that there\u2019s a history of filmmaking in Oakland and the Bay Area.\u201d<\/p>\n
A still from \u201cTDK: The Dream Kontinues\u201d of Lil John, brother of Mike \u201cDream\u201d Francisco (Courtesy of Pendarvis Harshaw)<\/p>\n
Visit Oakland is sponsoring theater rental fees, while Cinemama curated the screenings. There will be a series of short films followed by a screening of 2018 sci-fi comedy \u201cSorry to Bother You\u201d by director and Cinemama board member Boots Riley.\u00a0<\/p>\n
One of the showcased films is a 2015 short \u201cTDK: The Dream Kontinues,<\/a>\u201d directed by journalist Pendarvis Harshaw. The film, which Harshaw made as a UC Berkeley Journalism graduate student, features a soundtrack by the East Oakland hip-hop crew Hieroglyphics<\/a>.\u00a0It also showcases the work of Oakland graffiti artists, spotlighting the TDK crew and one of its founders, Mike \u201cDream\u201d Francisco, a well-known artist who was murdered in 2000. Oakland recognizes Feb. 17 as Dream Day in his honor.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cTelling a story about the flatlands of East Oakland and telling a story that goes beyond Oakland was really a part of my process,\u201d Harshaw said. \u201cAll of my work is really community oriented, and so making sure that I shed proper light on folks who don\u2019t normally have the camera and the microphone has really been my goal.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Oakland-based writer and educator Shia Shabazz Smith\u2019s 2026 short \u201cDawn<\/a>\u201d is also in the lineup. Smith described her film as \u201ca love story with a kiss of an Afro-futuristic sci-fi twist.\u201d Costume designer Senay Alkebu-lan incorporated the Black Panther Party logo in his designs throughout the film.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cOakland is a place where art, activism, education, all of them are important. There\u2019s something about it that\u2019s hard to articulate,\u201d Smith said. \u201cThere is a lived experience that is revered here.\u201d<\/p>\n Though Smith was not born in Oakland, she feels it \u201cclaims\u201d her because she has spent more time living here than anywhere else.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cTo be venturing into my art, and \u2014 because I am absolutely Oakland made \u2014 to be able to celebrate in this way just feels like an honor,\u201d Smith said.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cOakland Made\u201d<\/p>\n When: noon on Sunday, Oct 11 \u201cACROSS,\u201d \u201cHoly Roller\u201d and \u201cThis Is Private\u201d are other films screening in the shorts portion of the festival, which runs from noon to 2 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n This is the first time film will be incorporated into Oakland Style week, an annual festival to celebrate the city\u2019s art, music, culture, fashion and cuisine, now in its fourth year. Events earlier in the week included \u201cBrunch and the Runaway\u201d at Town Fare Caf\u00e9 and an \u201cArt of Sneakers\u201d showcase of sneaker culture at SoleSpace Lab.<\/p>\n According to Renee Roberts, Visit Oakland spokesperson, most Oakland Style visitors are not local.<\/p>\n \u201cOakland really is a very unique and special place, and if people have not been here they do not know that,\u201d said Roberts. \u201cPeople are very warm and welcoming. The energy is positive, creative.\u201d<\/p>\n (Top photo: A still of Dawn, the title character of Shia Shabazz Smith\u2019s film, courtesy of the filmmaker)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Films by Oakland-based filmmakers or set in the city will be screened at the New Parkway Theater Sunday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[191255,143,150274,145,144,191256],"class_list":["post-490188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-cinemama","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-films","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-visit-oakland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Where: New Parkway Theater, 474 24th St.
Tickets: Through Eventbrite<\/a>
More information: Visit Oakland<\/a><\/p>\n![\"Movie](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/film-1024x576.jpg\")
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