
DOC NYC’s 2024 Audience Award-winning Slumlord Millionaire follows residents, activists and attorneys battling some of New York City’s most notorious landlords. Join co-directors Steph Ching and Ellen Martinez and producer Nicole Tsien for a deep dive into the film’s development, production, distribution and impact campaign. Get an inside look at the access, storytelling, and editorial decisions that shaped the film and hear how they turned a complex housing crisis into an award-winning documentary. Moderated by Sian-Pierre Regis, author of Firelight Media’s newly released case study on the film.
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Firelight Media and the Documentary Producers Alliance hosted a conversation about the power of BIPOC producers.
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Firelight Media hosted a Beyond Resilience Masterclass with filmmakers behind some of the most lauded Black music documentaries of the decade.

Firelight Media's Beyond Resilience series co-presented a panel at CAAMFest Filmmaker Summit in San Francisco.
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Firelight Media and Distribution Advocates hosted a conversation about navigating the festival to awards pipeline for documentary filmmakers.

A conversation with filmmakers and scholars about Muslim and MENASA representation.

How can we band together to (re)build a system that will ensure independent filmmakers can thrive?

Beyond Resilience, with support from Field of Vision, is proud to be a community partner for the Arab Film & Media Institute's 'Palestinian Voices' program.

A conversation about the evolution of artificial intelligence and its impact on documentary filmmaking, presented with DOC NYC PRO.