Editor’s Note: As part of Firelight Media’s Beyond Resilience Series, we’re commissioning Firelight-supported filmmakers to share reflections on their own challenges, strategies, and experiences of creating and distributing work during periods of social transformation. In this edition, Shalini Kantayya, a Firelight Media Impact Campaign Fund grantee and Documentary Lab alum…

When Firelight Media launched its Beyond Resilience Series one year ago, on June 5, 2020 — in the midst of the dual pandemics of COVID-19 and a national reckoning with racist violence in the U.S. — it was in an atmosphere of tremendous uncertainty. Like arts organizations around the world…

Editor’s Note: As part of Firelight Media’s Beyond Resilience Series, we’re commissioning Firelight-supported filmmakers to share reflections on their own challenges, strategies, and experiences of creating and distributing work during periods of social transformation. …

Filmmakers Maya Cueva and Leah Galant on their acclaimed documentary “On the Divide” and what a “post-Roe” U.S. might look like. Editor’s Note: As part of Firelight Media’s Beyond Resilience series, we’re commissioning BIPOC nonfiction filmmakers to share reflections on their own challenges, strategies, and experiences of creating and distributing…

By Jin Yoo-Kim Editor’s Note: As part of Firelight Media’s Beyond Resilience series, we’re commissioning BIPOC nonfiction filmmakers to share reflections on their own challenges, strategies, and experiences of creating and distributing work during periods of social transformation. …

On the evening of Wednesday, September 28, 2022, Firelight Media hosted a Beyond Resilience Happy Hour at Wokcano West Hollywood in Los Angeles during the International Documentary Association’s Getting Real ’22 conference to celebrate our community of filmmakers. Earlier that day, we hosted the virtual panel discussion Beyond Resilience: Indigenous…

By Locsi Ferrá, Partner, Director, Social Impact Initiatives at Impact Media Partners Editor’s Note: As part of Firelight Media’s Beyond Resilience Masterclass series, supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, we’re commissioning humanities scholars and experts in the field of documentary filmmaking to share reflections on themes related to…

Much of our work at Firelight Media is designed to support and encourage early- and mid-career filmmakers as they seek and uncover the truth about our shared history. …