Grantee Profile
Firelight Media
Grants to Firelight Media
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$200,000Active Strategy
2011 (Duration 2 years)
NEW YORK, NEW YORK — Created and led by Stanley Nelson, a MacArthur Fellow and award-winning documentary filmmaker, Firelight Media is a nonprofit media organization that provides long-term, one-on-one professional development assistance to independent filmmakers of color. It works with producers and directors with promising documentary film ideas to strengthen every aspect of their project, from the creative and artistic side of the filmmaking process to the business aspects of making, completing and distributing a finished film. This grant enables Firelight Media to begin a small grants program for the producers participating in the Producers Lab, as well as other minority filmmakers.
The MacArthur Foundation awarded Firelight Media $200,000 between 2009 and 2012.