How does a documentary filmmaker fulfill their role in the midst of a pandemic and an uprising? Is it possible to transform our collective COVID-19 constraints into new creative approaches? What are the ethical considerations we must grapple with? How do we move beyond journalistic standards and root our work in an ethics of care?
Join filmmakers Carrie Lozano, Ashley O’Shay, Nausheen Dadabhoy, Vee Bravo, and Whose Streets? protagonist Brittany Ferrell in a conversation about existing and innovative formal production approaches.

Firelight Media hosted a Beyond Resilience Cool Down at BlackStar Film Festival in Philly.
Firelight Media hosted a Beyond Resilience panel at Third Horizon Film Festival on Stories of the Caribbean Diaspora.
Join Firelight Media for a special Beyond Resilience Masterclass featuring Black filmmakers on owning and telling our history.

Firelight Media hosted an informational webinar about applying to the Documentary Lab for emerging nonfiction filmmakers of color.

Firelight Media & WMHT are proud to present a special virtual screening and discussion around Stanley Nelson’s 'The Black Panthers: Vanguards of the Revolution.'
A panel discussion about co-creating documentary films with justice involved communities.
A Beyond Resilience roundtable featuring Muslim filmmakers on ethics & accountability in the documentary ecosystem.
Firelight Media hosted a special edition of the Beyond Resilience series at the Sundance Film Festival 2022.