Filmmaker Laurens Grant discusses latest film "JESSE OWENS".

Check out the press coverage for the new film JESSE OWENS which aired on PBS on May 1st.

"THE WAITING ROOM" by Peter Nicks debuts at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture on May 12!

Check out Stanley Nelson's interview about his beginnings and life-long career creating documentaries.

Check out Firelight's exciting Spring 2012 line-up.

Firelight Media's Community Action Division is pleased to announce our guide, United in Courage: A Community Resource Guide for the film FREEDOM RIDERS.

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE won a PEABODY AWARD with FREEDOM RIDERS as one of three showcase films! Congrats to the Firelight Films team!

Firelight Media’s Producers’ Lab is a mentorship program for talented, independent and diverse filmmakers. Participating producers work with award-winning filmmaker, Stanley Nelson, and his team of senior producers, writers, editors, new media, outreach, and fundraising specialists to complete their projects for a national broadcast.

Check out "An Explorer of Black History's Uncharted Terrain" -- the New York Times feature article on filmmaker and Executive Director of Firelight Media, Stanley Nelson. Author Mike Hale writes: "The breadth and seriousness of his work documenting black life in America, assembled with little fanfare and sometimes less money, place him in a select group of filmmakers..."