As part of our 2025 Beyond Resilience series, we are publishing case studies of films and impact campaigns by Firelight Media-supported filmmakers in order to provide a detailed overview of the filmmaker's journey from ideation to research and development to production to post-production, distribution, and impact and engagement.
For the first of our case studies, we focused on filmmaker Set Hernandez, who is an alum of Firelight Media's Impact Producer Fellowship, Documentary Lab, and Impact Campaign Fund. Set graciously shared their filmmaker journey with us for this report, and shared further details in our Beyond Resilience event, "Owning Distribution."
A panel discussion featuring Femme Frontera colleagues and past Showcase filmmakers who discuss their journeys from making short films to making content for productions such as Netflix, Amazon, PBS, AppleTV, and Amazon Studios.
Firelight Media hosted a special Beyond Resilience panel at Getting Real '22 featuring an international group of Indigenous filmmakers.
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Firelight Media hosted a Beyond Resilience Masterclass on using personal archives for nonfiction storytelling.
Join Firelight Media for an informational webinar about applying for the PBS/Firelight William Greaves Production Fund.
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.
