Programs/Content
Exclusive Stanley Nelson film launches revamped World Channel presence on YouTube
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The channel’s new online strategy is aimed at becoming “a gateway to public media for young audiences.”
Programs/Content
MPT enlists Firelight Films for documentaries on iconic Marylanders
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“I couldn’t have dreamt of two better subjects for films,” says Firelight’s Stanley Nelson.
People
Stanley Nelson urges academy to reach beyond comfort zone for new talent
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Accepting an award for lifetime achievements, Nelson said that television has failed to tell “the full American story.”
Programs/Content
Promotional strategy for ‘Black Panthers’ pays off for PBS
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The filmmakers’ strategy for engaging an audience was in the works for more than a year.
Documentaries
AFI honors Stanley Nelson, public TV’s ‘filmmaker of black experience’
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Though Nelson didn’t particularly take to that title.
Documentaries
Firelight Media receives MacArthur grant for reserves, innovation fund
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Firelight Media, based in New York, gets $500,000 to expand its reserves and establish an innovation fund to experiment with digital storytelling platforms.
Programs/Content
Director Stanley Nelson leads history trilogy with documentary on Black Panthers
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The film will be the first in a three-part series about pivotal moments in African-American history.
System/Policy
CPB gives $2.5 million to Firelight Media diversity initiative
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Firelight Media, the documentary filmmaking nonprofit founded by Stanley Nelson, received a $2.55 million grant from CPB Aug. 20 to expand Producers’ Lab, a public television documentary mentorship project. Producers’ Lab recruits filmmakers and producers from underrepresented regions across the country to work with Nelson and Firelight Media to create documentaries that include a more diverse range of voices. The grant will allow the lab to add 30 to 40 more producers to the program over three years and expand its recruiting to all regions of the country. The program’s goal of adding more diversity to public TV’s airwaves was a main selling point for CPB, according to Joseph Tovares, senior vice president of diversity and innovation at CPB.
Programs/Content
Film revisits Freedom Summer for a new generation
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Freedom Summer, a documentary directed by Stanley Nelson, recounts the turbulent 10-week period, focusing on efforts by the Council of Federated Organizations and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party to enfranchise the segregated state’s black population.