Description: Founded by award-winning filmmaker Stanley Nelson, Firelight Films produces documentary films to reach and engage diverse audiences.
Founded by award-winning filmmaker Stanley Nelson, Firelight Films produces documentary films and develops strategies, partnerships, and materials to reach and engage diverse audiences.
Firelight Films productions have garnered multiple Primetime Emmy, Peabody, IDA, and Sundance awards. Among them, the Academy Award®-nominated Attica , for Showtime; Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre for the History Channel; Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy for Netflix; Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool ; The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution ; and Freedom Riders . Upcoming Firelight Films productions include Becoming Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom for Maryland Pu
Firelight Films productions have garnered multiple Primetime Emmy, Peabody, IDA, and Sundance awards. Among them, the feature films Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre for the History Channel; Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy for Netflix; Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool ; The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution ; and Freedom Riders . Upcoming Firelight Films productions include Attica , about the 1971 prison rebellion in upstate New York, for Showtime; and Creating the New World: The Transatl
Welcome to Firelight Media
Home: Tubman and Douglass Documentaries
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Hazing, A Byron Hurt Film, Hazing Documentary
Tubman Home: Harriet Tubman Visions of Freedom
Douglass Home: Becoming Frederick Douglass
Creating The New World
Welcome to Firelight Media
Joua Lee Grande
News & Documentary - NYU Journalism