Firelight Media at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival
Firelight Media is presenting two events at this year’s Sundance Film Festival! On Friday, January 29, we’ll present a new edition of our Beyond Resilience Series, and on Monday, February 1, we’ll present a Firelight & Friends Virtual Red Carpet & Dance Party. Visit Firelight House, our Sundance Film Festival Village page, for full information about our events at the Festival.
Read on for details about these events plus other Firelight Media alumni-featured screenings, panels, and special events.
Friday, Jan. 29, 3pm ET | Beyond Resilience: Creating & Commissioning Art in Times of Crisis
How can BIPOC artists best be supported in making socially-relevant work in times of crisis, even as they and their communities experience precarity? This conversation, hosted by Firelight Media as part of its Beyond Resilience Series, will look to past and present BIPOC artists, filmmakers, and institution builders who make bold and visionary work within and without the establishment.
The panel discussion will be moderated by Marcia Smith, president of Firelight Media, and will include Maori Karmael Holmes, founder of BlackStar Projects; F. Javier Torres-Campos, director of the Thriving Cultures program at Surdna; Frank B. Wilderson III, author of Afropessimism and Chancellor’s Professor and Chair of African American Studies at UC Irvine; and Coco Fusco, interdisciplinary artist and professor at Cooper Union. (View the panelists’ full bios on our website.)
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Monday, Feb. 1, 7pm ET | Firelight & Friends Virtual Red Carpet & Dance Party
Firelight Media, A-Doc, and Brown Girls Doc Mafia present a Virtual Red Carpet + Dance Party celebrating the achievements of our communities throughout the past year. Despite the enormous challenges that BIPOC filmmakers faced this year, our communities continue to create amazing new documentary work.
Join us for a virtual red carpet featuring members of the Firelight Media, A-Doc, and Brown Girls Doc Mafia communities, hosted by Firelight Media Doc Lab alum Sian Pierre-Regis.
The red carpet event will be followed by a dance party featuring live music by Firelight’s own DJ Laylo + Velcro.
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Thursday, Jan. 28, 10am ET | Screening: THIS IS THE WAY WE RISE, dir. Ciara Lacy
Ciara Lacy, a Firelight Media Documentary Lab alum, will be screening her documentary short THIS IS THE WAY WE RISE, part of our IN THE MAKING series. The film explores An exploration the creative process, following native Hawaiian slam poet Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio as her art is reinvigorated by her calling to protect sacred sites atop Mauna Kea, Hawai’i.
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Friday, Jan. 29, 12pm ET & Sunday, January 31, 10am ET | Screening: HOMEROOM, dir. Peter Nicks
Peter Nicks, a Firelight Media Documentary Lab alum, will have two screenings of his documentary feature HOMEROOM, which captures the resilient and defiant energy of the Oakland High School’s class of 2020 in Nicks’s final chapter in a trilogy of films examining the relationship between health care, criminal justice, and education in Oakland.
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Friday, Jan. 29, 1pm ET | Artist Meetup: Just Praxis and the Arts with Loira Limbal and Karim Ahmad
Loira Limbal, Firelight Media’s SVP for Programs, will join Karim Ahmad for a live conversation about just praxis in the arts. Inspired by the Sundance Institute Collective’s ongoing Artist Roundtables, these daily meetups present an intimate opportunity to virtually break bread with other members of our artist community.
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Sunday, Jan. 31, 7pm ET | BGDM & CNN Films Presents: Movies with Meaning, Featuring Dawn Porter
Movies with Meaning will feature an exclusive conversation with Firelight Media Doc Lab alum Dawn Porter & Salima Koroma, moderated by Lauren Domino.
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Monday, Feb 1, 1pm ET | Live Podcast Recording: A Liberatory Lens, hosted by Ligaiya Romero and Sonya Childress
A Liberatory Lens is a new podcast about art, journalism, and storytelling for justice. With hosts Sonya Childress and Firelight Media Documentary Lab alum and IN THE MAKING filmmaker Ligaiya Romero, each 45-minute episode will feature a critical discussion about media as a tool for liberation.
This special, live recording of the first episode, presented by Brown Girls Doc Mafia, will feature guests featuring guests Alok V. Menon & Joshua Allen.
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*Firelighters: If we missed your event, send us an email or a DM and we’ll update!
Learn more about Firelight Media’s presence at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival via our Sundance Film Festival Village page.
