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Firelight Media Sets Documentary Lab Fellows For 2024-26
Firelight Media today revealed Fellows for its flagship mentoring program, the Firelight Documentary Lab. Check out the list of mentees and their projects.
Now in its 15th year, Firelight’s longest-running artist program was launched in 2009 by the organization’s co-founders Stanley Nelson and Marcia Smith to support underrepresented filmmakers working on their first or second feature-length documentary films. “As we approach Firelight Media’s 25th anniversary in 2025, we continue to reflect on the powerful network of filmmakers we’ve built through our artist programs,” said Lucy Mukerjee, director of the Documentary Lab. Amada Torruella, Vena Acuática An ecofeminist portrait of El Salvador, this film takes us on an intimate and tender journey through the relationships women keep with water and territory, including stories from communities at the forefront of migration and ecocide, highlighting the critical intersection of science, culture, and environmental memory.
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