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Firelight Media is a non-profit organization dedicated to developing talented documentary filmmakers who tell stories about people, places, cultures and issues that are underrepresented in the mainstream media. Firelight Medias flagship program is the Producers Lab, a mentorship program for emerging producers of color. Participating producers work with award-winning filmmaker, Stanley Nelson and his team of senior producers, writers, editors, new media, and fundraising specialists to complete their projects for a national broadcast. Mable Haddock spearheads this exciting project as Director. Haddock served as founding President and CEO of the National Black Program Consortium (NBPC) for 25 years. Firelight Media started the Producers Lab as a way to provide infrastructure support for producers of color to help overcome some of the barriers to completing their film or video.
FIRELIGHT FILMS
FIRELIGHT FILMS is a production company dedicated to producing high quality and compelling social-issue films. Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Stanley Nelson serves as the President of Firelight Films and is Executive Producer for all projects.
Nelsons past films include: Wounded Knee which aired nationally on PBS American Experience as part of the landmark series on Native Americans, We Shall Remain, in 2009; Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple which was short-listed for an Academy Award and won the International Documentary Association Award in 2006; The Murder of Emmett Till, which garnered an Emmy Award in 2002; and The Black Press: Soldiers without Swords which won the duPont-Columbia Silver Baton and the Sundance Film Festivals Freedom of Expression award in 1999.
Forthcoming projects include a one-hour special on the work of Miles Davis for WNET/Thirteens American Masters and a two-hour project on the Freedom Riders of the Civil Rights Movement for WGBHs American Experience.
Age
47
Country
United States
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