Darian Henry is a filmmaker, digital-media educator, founding member, and co-executive director of the nationally known film and digital media organization Youth FX. She has shot, directed, and produced over 50 short documentary, narrative, and experimental films. In 2016 Darian co-founded NeXt Doc, a year-long documentary fellowship designed to bring together emerging documentary storytellers between […]
Amber Espinosa-Jones is an independent producer and racial equity strategist from Oakland, CA. She currently serves as Manager of the Outreach & Inclusion Department at Sundance Institute where she supports artists from underrepresented communities through intersectional fellowships, community programs, and network building. She has worked with a number of arts organizations looking to support narrative […]
Sahar Driver is a documentary impact strategist and educator, field builder, and researcher. Her work has included impact campaign development and partnership cultivation for over two-dozen campaigns both as a freelancer and with Active Voice; developing trainings and curriculum around impact campaign strategy and implementation, including with Doc Society on their Impact Field Guide and […]
Rahi Hasan (they/them) is a formerly undocumented dancer, multimedia documentary artist, educator, and impact strategist challenging power on all fronts to create space for healing and radical imagination. They immigrated to Queens, New York from Dhaka, Bangladesh before moving to Durham, NC. Rahi was a Firelight Media Impact Producer fellow in 2018. Rahi is the […]
Day Al-Mohamed is a writer, independent filmmaker, and disability policy strategist. She is passionate about authentic representative storytelling and its ability to reframe history and promote culture. Al-Mohamed is author of two alternate history fantastical novels, Baba Ali and the Clockwork Djinn and The Labyrinth’s Archivist, as well as comics and critical essays, including, most […]
Chloe Walters-Wallace is a Jamaican creative with a passion for curation, travel, dancehall, and installation art. Currently, she is the Director of Regional Initiatives at Firelight Media, where she oversees the Groundwork Regional Lab and the new HOMEGROWN documentary shorts slate, supporting filmmakers of color in the South, Midwest & US Territories. In 2021 she […]
Aisling Chin-Yee is a producer, writer and director based in Montreal and Los Angeles. In 2021, New Yorker Magazine hailed her latest work, No Ordinary Man, as “a genre unto itself,” and the film premiered at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival, AFI and DOCNYC. Her feature directorial debut, The Rest of Us, also premiered […]
Jeanelle Augustin is a Haitian-American film programmer and grants professional who currently serves as Manager, Film Fellowships and Artist Development at NBC Universal, helping to lead the Original Voices Fellowship, presented by NBCU Academy and NBC News Studios. Born and based in New York City, her work is centered on the visual and sonic culture of […]
Poh Si Teng is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, journalist and the director of IDA Funds and Enterprise Program. She is the producer of St. Louis Superman, which was nominated for an Academy Award in the short documentary category, and won a Critics’ Choice Award. In 2020, she was one of DOC NYC’s 40 Under 40 […]