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'Unless Something Goes Terribly Wrong' – produced by Rebecca Stern This film also screened as part of our Works-in-Progress Series. #DocumentaryLab 'L’Mina' – produced by Rim Mejdi So thrilled for our #FiFellows! 👏
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Congrats to the #FiFellows with projects at the Camden International Film Festival! 🤩 'A Life Illuminated' – directed, written, produced, and shot by Tasha Van Zandt, produced, cinematography, and edited by Sebastian Zeck & edited by Katrina Taylor #DocumentaryLab #FastTrack 'Love War' – directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, 2016 #SpiritAwards Truer Than Fiction Award winner Learn more: deadline.com/2025/08/2025-ca…
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The 2025 @TIFF_NET Docs Programme is looking great, featuring projects from #FiFellows! 🤩 'A Life Illuminated', directed, written, produced, and cinematography by Tasha Van Zandt, produced, cinematography, and edited by Sebastian Zeck, and edited by Katrina Taylor 'American Whore', executive produced by Sean Baker 'Love War', directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi Read more: variety.com/2025/film/news/t… #DocumentaryLab #FastTrack
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TIFF Documentary Lineup Includes Films From Laura Poitras, Raoul Peck, Jimmy Chin and Chai Vasarhelyi variety.com/2025/film/news/t…
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Last week’s #FiPresents screening of 'Hollywoodgate' was a full house! Huge thank you to writer/director Ibrahim Nash’at and #Fellow Producer Shane Boris (2018 #DocumentaryLab) for joining us! 🙌 Moderated by Daniel Cardone (Film Independent). Make sure to save your seat for our upcoming screenings: bit.ly/3BGzqSo
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#ICYMI: Check out @DOCNYCfest's 5 Questions with Film Independent's #DocumentaryLab and #FastTrack 2019 Fellow, @sianpierre! 👏
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DOC NYC’s 5 Questions With… features industry leaders and filmmakers sharing thoughts on their work of the moment. We spoke with @sianpierre, the award-winning filmmaker behind DUTY FREE, and former @firelightmedia and @filmindependent Lab Fellow. bit.ly/5QsWith-Sian-Pierre
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Wow! Our #Fellow @pjraval (#DocumentaryLab 2011, #FastTrack 2012) has been named a 2024 USA Fellow! 🤩
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#DocumentaryLab Fellow @LoganMakesMan’s project ‘What Will I Become’ weaves together the stories of two trans boys who died by suicide and the trans masculine community surviving the suppression and isolation that comes with binary masculinity firelightmedia.tv/filmmakers…
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Congratulations to @sabaahfolayan, who just received the SXSW Community Service Award for Film, in recognition of her leadership of the #DocumentaryLab as well as her filmmaking and activism. #DocLabAlum #FirelightFamily 🔥
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#WereHiring! With support from @WorkRenewed, we are seeking to fill three new full-time remote/hybrid positions: Director of our #DocumentaryLab, Contracts & Grants Manager, and Information Systems & Collaboration Manager. Learn more apply: bit.ly/3jLiDu9 🧵
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Meet #DocumentaryLab Fellow Reveca Torres, whose untitled documentary on art and disability culture envisions how her disabled artist ancestors Frida Kahlo, Vincent Van Gogh, and Henri Matisse lived and created. Learn more about Reveca and her work: bit.ly/3Fx4Iit
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Congratulations to #ADoc member @sjy491 (UNTITLED SCIENTIST PROJECT) for being selected as a 2022-24 @firelightmedia #DocumentaryLab Fellow!
Meet #DocumentaryLab Fellow @sjy491, who is passionate about stories that find shared humanity. Her Doc Lab film follows a Chinese-American scientist who comes under scrutiny by the FBI for national security concerns, suffering irreversible consequences: bit.ly/3BHfRfL
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Meet #DocumentaryLab Fellow @Tsanavi, a Northern Arapaho and Paiute director, producer, and writer. Her film 'Holder of the Sky' is a modern-day story of colonization that documents three Wisconsin Tribes' battle to reclaim treaty promises made to them: bit.ly/3BKD3cP
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Meet #DocumentaryLab Fellow @sjy491, who is passionate about stories that find shared humanity. Her Doc Lab film follows a Chinese-American scientist who comes under scrutiny by the FBI for national security concerns, suffering irreversible consequences: bit.ly/3BHfRfL
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Meet #DocumentaryLab Fellow @hooliana, a Colombian-American filmmaker. Her film 'Providencia' follows a Colombian woman who, after her brother is killed, watches family members magically lose their memory, one by one. Learn more about her work: bit.ly/3uXjc6E
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A pre-holiday reminder to apply to the #DocumentaryLab, designed to help filmmakers in post-production on their feature-length documentary films, including networking and support for project completion, distribution and marketing. Learn more apply: bit.ly/2LhsDaf
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Meet #DocumentaryLab Fellow @AthenaCNN, a CNN national correspondent based in New York. Her Doc Lab film "Sisters' Keepers" is an investigative documentary inspired by her own story as a breast cancer survivor diagnosed twice in her 30s. Learn more: firelightmedia.tv/filmmakers…
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🎉 Congratulations to all of the the 2022–2024 @firelightmedia Documentary Lab Fellows, which includes Naveen Chaubal (2020 SDF Emergency R&D grantee)! deadline.com/2022/12/firelig… #DocumentaryLab #documentary #documentaryfilm #documentaryfilmmaking #documentaryfilmmaker #SDFSupported
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Meet #DocumentaryLab Fellow Paulina Davis, an educator, former disability rights attorney, and first-time filmmaker. Her film 'The Co-Op: The Kids of Dorie Miller' explores her family’s roots in NYC's first unsegregated housing co-op. Learn more: firelightmedia.tv/filmmakers…
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Have you applied to the #DocumentaryLab yet? This program is designed to help filmmakers who are currently in post-production on their feature-length documentary films, and help strategize for the completion, distribution and marketing. Learn more apply: bit.ly/2LhsDaf
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