Harlem-based production company Firelight Media has chosen its seven grantees for its Impact Campaign Fund, its artist support program designed to address a resource gap in the non-fiction space for impact and audience engagement-related projects by and for communities of color in the U.S.

The fund, created in 2020, supports the creation of audience engagement and impact campaigns associated with films made by current or former Firelight-supported filmmakers. The prodco solicited applications for projects that are socially relevant, address or engage underrepresented issues or communities, and are accountable to the impacted communities their films represent.

From there, Firelight Media selected seven projects, awarding each with grants ranging from US$10,000 to $25,000, and the opportunity to gain impact and engagement strategy support and advising. Recipients will use the grants to build engagement campaigns to cultivate and captivate wide diverse local, regional and national audiences.

“Firelight Media is incredibly proud to support this powerful slate of films, each of which is poised to spark or deepen important conversations and actions among and between communities of color,” said Firelight Media president and co-founder Marcia Smith in a statement. “We continue to believe in the important role that these storytellers play in social movements and we are committed to helping them develop thoughtful and strategic campaigns with the support offered through this Fund.”

Learn more and meet the 2021 grantees via Realscreen’s exclusive.