Join Firelight Media for a special edition of the Beyond Resilience series at the Sundance Film Festival 2022.

Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/beyond-resilience-collaborating-with-documentary-protagonists-tickets-250669367827?aff=erellivmlt

About this event

Join Firelight Media for a special edition of the Beyond Resilience series at Sundance Film Festival for a discussion with independent documentary filmmakers of color who engage film protagonists as collaborators. Whether engaging impacted communities to tell their own collective stories on their own terms, or centering protagonists whose individual stories provide new insights into contemporary social issues, these filmmakers are creating new models for ethical, community-based, and trauma-informed storytelling. This conversation will explore these emerging practices and discuss their implications for the broader nonfiction film industry.

Panelists include Firelight-supported filmmakers Isabel Castro (Mija, Sundance 2022 Premiere); Shalini Kantayya (TikTok, Boom., Sundance 2022 Premiere), and Emily Cohen Ibañez (Fruits of Labor, SXSW 2021 Premiere), moderated by Firelight Media President Marcia Smith.

Accessibility notice: This event will include live closed captioning and ASL interpretation.

This Beyond Resilience presentation at Sundance Film Festival is sponsored by Field of Vision. The Beyond Resilience series is sponsored by Open Society Foundations. Beyond Resilience is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. Learn more at firelightmedia.tv/beyond-resilience.