Firelight Media and American Masters present IN THE MAKING, a documentary short film series following the lives and journeys of emerging BIPOC cultural artists who bring insight and originality to their artistic craft.
Featuring eight cinematic and character-driven shorts by emerging BIPOC filmmakers – most of whom graduated from our Documentary Lab – IN THE MAKING explores the artistic process of up-and-coming creatives through non-fiction storytelling.
2021 NAACP Image Award Nominee, Outstanding Short-Form Series - Reality/Nonfiction
Explore the life and work of Maia Cruz Palileo, the multi-disciplinary, Brooklyn-based artist who examines themes of migration and the permeable concept of home in her works, inspired by the oral history of her family’s arrival in the United States from the Philippines.