05/07/2026
Congrats to Joél Mejia for submitting our film to Firelight Media Documentary Lab!
One thing we’ve learned through the grant submission process is that sometimes the prize is the process itself. While opportunities like the Firelight Media Documentary Lab are incredibly competitive, preparing the submission invited us into important conversations about the future of documentary filmmaking, ethics, developing our impact campaign, and storytelling in an increasingly artificial world.
As part of the application, we spent time reflecting on Firelight Media’s ethical framework surrounding the use of AI in documentary filmmaking — exploring not only if AI should be used, but when, how, and what responsibility filmmakers have in maintaining authenticity, transparency, and human-centered storytelling.
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We’re excited to share that Joel Mejia — director/editor of Time is Art: The Frequency of Love — has officially submitted the film to the Firelight Media Documentary Lab, a fellowship supporting fi…