Firelight Media

The Documentary Lab is the flagship program of Firelight Media. It is an 18-month fellowship program that offers support to emerging filmmakers of color to complete their films and gain national distribution. Participants receive a $25,000 grant toward their projects as well as customized mentorship from prominent leaders in the documentary world, professional development workshops, and networking opportunities.

• Freedom Bags (1990)
• Schools for A New Society (1993)
• Puerto Rico: A Right to Choose (1994)
• The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords (1999)
• Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind (2000)
• Running the Campaign for City Council (2002)
• The Murder of Emmett Till (2003)
• A Place of Our Own (2004)
• Beyond Brown: Pursuing the Promise (2004)
• Sweet Honey in the Rock: Raise Your Voice (2005)
• Faces of Change (2005)
• Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (2006)
• CNN Presents High Stakes (2006)
• Wounded Knee (2009)
• Immigration Part 1: Battleground Arizona (2009)
• Immigration Part II: Raid in New Bedford (2009)
• Immigration Part III: Guest Workers in the Gulf (2009)
• Arise: the Battle over Affirmative Action (2010)
• Freedom Riders (2010)

• Official website
• "Firelight Media Holds Community Engagement Media Conference". Open Society Foundations. 31 March 2011. Retrieved 7 July 2011.
• Almo, Laura (January 2007). "Outreach, Not Out of Reach: Firelight Media Illuminates the Under-Represented". International Documentary Association. Retrieved 7 July 2011.
• Cruz, Rosana (June 2011). "50 years later, youth and elders keep the spirit of the Freedom Rides alive". Facing South. Retrieved 7 July 2011.
• Leydon, Joe (16 January 2003). "The Murder of Emmett Till (review)". Variety. Retrieved 7 July 2011.
• "Stanley Nelson". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2011. Archived from the original on 29 June 2011. Retrieved 7 July 2011.

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