Filmmaker · Director · Editor · Storyteller
Selected Work
Stories That Last
Hover to playSports & Culture · Campaign
Our Town, Your Team Campaign
A cinematic tribute to the bond between a city and its club. This campaign for Oakland Roots SC captures the spirit of community ownership — the belief that a football club is not just a team, but a reflection of its people, its streets, and its soul.
Hover to playDocumentary
Human E.T.
An intimate documentary portrait exploring what it means to feel alien in your own world — and the search for belonging that defines us.
Hover to playBranded Content · Community
Black Joy Parade Campaign
Celebrating Oakland's most joyful tradition. This campaign honors the parade as a living declaration of Black life, culture, and collective pride.
Hover to playOfficial Cinematic Book Trailer
GET AWAY by David Axelrod
The official cinematic book trailer for GET AWAY by David Axelrod — a meditation on movement, wonder, and the world beyond home.
Hover to playBranded Content · Social Impact
Together We Rise Campaign
Part of the #connectnotdivide series — weaving together voices across distance and difference to affirm that progress is always shared, always rooted, always rising.
Hover to playBranded Content · Social Impact
Together We Rise Campaign — Part Two
Part two of the #connectnotdivide series — World Enabled: removing barriers and promoting inclusion around the world.
Behind the Lens
About
Oakland Born. Globally Told.
Filmmaker · Director · Editor · Storyteller
Calvin Gaskin is an Oakland-based filmmaker, creative director, and storyteller creating cinematic work centered around culture, community, and identity. Drawing from his family's deep roots in Oakland — where his great-grandmother became the city's inaugural Mother of the Year and his grandfather helped pioneer Oakland's first Black Fire Chiefs — his films and visual projects explore themes of legacy, transformation, spirituality, and human connection. His work spans documentary, narrative, and branded storytelling across sports, social impact, and cultural media.
“Rooted in Oakland. Telling stories that last.”
Mission & Purpose
Why We Pick Up the Camera
We believe the most powerful films are the ones that couldn't have been made by anyone else. Every project is an act of intention — a deliberate choice to shine light on the stories the world needs to see. We don't make content. We make cinema.
Truth Before Aesthetics
Beauty serves the story — never the other way around.
Community as Collaborator
The people in the story are partners in telling it.
Cinematic Intentionality
Every frame is a deliberate choice, never an accident.
Legacy Over Virality
We make work built to last, not to trend.
Cultural Intelligence
We tell stories with the context and care they deserve.
Let's Build Something
Whether you're a brand, an organization, or an individual with a story worth telling — reach out. Every great film starts with a conversation.