Byron Hurt, Dawn Porter, Melissa Haizlip, Marlene McCurtis Are 2013 Firelight Media Next Step Media Fund Recipients
Congratulations are in order for Marlene McCurtis, Byron Hurt, Dawn Porter and Melissa Haizlip, all of whom have been selected as recipients of Firelight Media's Next Step Media Fund (who goals is to support and encourage diversity among emerging filmmakers) which will distribute $70,000 in funding to documentary film projects created by those 4 filmmakers - all participants in Firelight Media’s Producers’ Lab, a mentorship program for talented, independent producers of color. The 4 were selected by a jury that included: Tamir Muhammad (Tribeca Film Institute); Cynthia Lopez (Pov); Film programmer Chi-Wei Yang, Firelight’s Stanley Nelson (Co-Founder) and...
- 11/6/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
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