Firelight Media is thrilled to partner with Mountainfilm this year to present the third season of our HOMEGROWN series, “Horizons,” which focuses on the Mountain West region and examines the histories, lived experiences, and present-day realities of local communities of color. This program will be offered free to the public and passholders during Mountainfilm.
In addition to the screenings, Firelight Media, in collaboration with local organizations Mountain Media Arts Collective & Color Vérité, will host a meetup for BIPOC festival attendees and guests. Join us at Alibi (121 S Fir St) to celebrate the films we’ve championed and the people who make them possible. With sounds by DJ DAGHE, an open bar, and immaculate vibes.
We’re also proud to lift up the Documentary Lab-supported film ‘Aanikoobijigan,’ directed by Adam Khalil and Zack Khalil, which is screening at the festival, along with the short film ‘Mujer Santuario’ (‘Sanctuary Woman’), by Firelight Media-supported filmmaker Alan Domínguez.
This year’s Mountainfilm Festival will take place May 21 – 25, 2026. We hope to see you there!
Who gets to shape our imagination?
In this op-ed, Loira Limbal, President and CEO of Firelight Media, reflects on nonfiction cinema and the power of storytelling to shape culture.
Read the full article. Link in bio.
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A message from Firelight Media President & CEO Loira Limbal:
Something is being reactivated. In 2020, I released ‘Through the Night’ — a documentary following a 24-hour daycare in New Rochelle and the mothers who worked overnight shifts, held down three jobs, and spent decades caring for other people’s children. Now it’s coming back to New York City.
On May 20, join us for an in-person screening of ‘Through the Night’ at The New School, followed by a conversation with the people whose labor keeps New York City running.
Mayor Mamdani’s universal childcare plan has generated real hope. But hope requires scrutiny. As the plan takes shape, family-based providers and the parents who work non-standard hours - the overnight workers, the weekend shift holders, the ones the city has called essential but often forgets - risk being left out of what is supposed to be universal.
Providers, organizers, and advocates are not letting that slide. Join us to be a part of the conversation. RSVP via the link in bio.
Next Wednesday, 5/20 at The New School in NYC: Join Shanita Bowen, Chief Operating Officer at ECE on the Move, for a conversation about Universal 2-K in NYC, following a screening of the acclaimed documentary ‘Through the Night.’ The event is free with RSVP (link in bio)
ECE on the Move is a collective of over 600 early childhood educators in NYC residential settings, emphasizing professional ECE expertise over terms like “home-based childcare.” Founded in 2019 by Gladys Jones and Doris Irizarry, it stems from 11+ years of grassroots organizing to foster mutual support and advocacy.
A tender portrait of titanic strength, love, and selflessness, ‘Through the Night’ showcases the multiplicity of “women’s work” – paid, underpaid, and unpaid; emotional and physical; domestic and career-oriented – all while negotiating the terms of a dignified existence under the three arrows of racism, sexism, and capitalism in America.
After the screening, stay for a panel conversation with the people closest to this work: child care providers, care work experts, and advocates.
Follow Aliah and Kēhau as they reclaim the art of building Hawaiian hale, traditional thatched structures nearly lost to colonial erasure.
Working within a male-dominated practice, their journey is both cultural preservation and an act of resistance. "Aliah Irvine & Kēhau Kapua’a: Kūkulu" now streaming, link in bio.
Next Wednesday, 5/20 at The New School in NYC: Join filmmaker Loira Limbal and film protagonist Deloris “Nunu” Hogan for a screening and Q&A around Loira’s acclaimed documentary ‘Through the Night.’ The event is free with RSVP — link in bio 🔗
‘Through the Night’ (NYT Critic’s Pick, Tribeca Festival 2020, and duPont-Columbia Award winner) is an intimate cinema verité portrait of three working mothers whose lives all intersect at a 24-hour daycare center: a mother working the overnight shift as an essential worker at a hospital; another holding down three jobs just to support her family; and a woman who for over two decades has cared for the children of parents with nowhere else to turn.
A tender portrait of titanic strength, love, and selflessness, ‘Through the Night’ showcases the multiplicity of “women’s work” – paid, underpaid, and unpaid; emotional and physical; domestic and career-oriented – all while negotiating the terms of a dignified existence under the three arrows of racism, sexism, and capitalism in America.
After the screening, join us for a conversation about Universal 2-K in NYC and the care, work, and families who will hold it all together.
POV: Your Emmy Award-winning husband takes your fit check photos
Our Co-Founder Marcia Smith photographed by Stanley Nelson in the Black Love is Uptown tee. Grab yours at the link in our bio 🫶🏾
Presented by Camina Conmigo & Color Vérité
Join us at the Teton County Library for a presentation of the award winning film, Internal Peaks. A film about professional athletes, Jr and Vanessa, on a mission to bring to light the intersectional relationships between their outdoor pursuits, climate change, and who belongs outdoors. Food will be provided, and there will be a raffle. After the film we will host a special panel by Camina Conmigo JH.
Doors open 6pm
Film starts at 6:30pm, followed by Q&A and Camina Conmigo Panel
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Presentado por Camina Conmigo y Color Vérité
Únase con nosotros en la biblioteca de Teton County para una presentación de la premiada película, Picos Internos. Esta película se trate sobre atletas profesionales, Jr y Vanessa, quienes tienen una misión de destacar las relaciones interseccionales entre sus actividades al aire libre, el cambio climático y quién pertenece al aire libre. Serviremos comida y habrá una rifa. Después de la película habrá un panel especial de Camina Conmigo JH.
Las puertas abren a las 6pm
La película comienza a las 6:30pm, y después haremos un Q&A y el panel de Camina Conmigo
On Wednesday, May 20, from 7-9 pm at The New School in NYC, join us for a free film screening and conversation around the Future of Universal Childcare in NYC!
Joining us in conversation is Reshma Saujani, a leading movement builder, the founder of Girls Who Code and Moms First, and the host of the My So-Called Midlife podcast with Lemonada Media.
For more than a decade, Reshma has launched and led bold, culture-shifting movements for gender equality by working to close the gender gap in tech, fighting for paid leave and affordable child care, confronting the penalties women face in midlife, and, most recently, examining the widening divide between men and women in America. Her work has ignited national conversations on bravery, connection, motherhood, and aging.
Saujani is a New York Times bestselling author of several books, including PAY UP, Brave, Not Perfect, and the Girls Who Code series. Her 2025 Harvey Mudd commencement speech on gender division and her 2023 Smith College speech on imposter syndrome have been viewed over 20 million times. Her TED talk, “Teach girls bravery, not perfection,” has over 54 million views globally.
In 2024, she launched My So-Called Midlife, a podcast with Lemonada Media that quickly entered Apple’s Top 10 show chart, reached #1 in Health and Fitness, and was named one of the best new podcasts of the year by TIME magazine.
Poet Cindy Tran creates works that bridge personal memories and shared experiences, reflecting on childhood, parental expectations, and societal stigmas around an Asian-American identity. ‘Cindy Tran: From Here to Here,’ directed by Xinyan Yu as part of our In The Making documentary short film series with PBS American Masters, is now streaming via PBS’ YouTube Channel and at the link in our bio.
Use code mothersday10 for 10% off of our Black Love is Uptown collection now through 5/11.
Every piece from our Uptown Collection draws from over 25 years of Firelight Media’s archive and the visual memory of Uptown New York. Wearing it is a small act of insistence that these images stay visible in the world. shop.firelightmedia.tv
TOMORROW: Join Firelight Media at CAAMFest in San Francisco’s Japantown! Tickets & RSVPs via @caamedia
Firelight Media President & CEO Loira Limbal joins the CAAMFest Filmmaker Summit: From the Margins to the Blueprint - conversations on the state of media for the public good through the lens of organizations uplifting filmmakers of color.
11:00 am PT: Visionary leaders in the public media space, including our own Loira Limbal, Carrie Lozano (ITVS), Robert Y. Chang (AmDoc/POV), and CAAM’s Don Young, delve into “Life After CPB” and how we can navigate this moment to create a more inclusive and democratic public media.
12:20 pm PT: To bring the public media discourse full circle, Loira Limbal moderates “Lunch & Learn: Reimagining Solidarity as Collective Liberation” to hear from filmmakers Grace Lee (Co-founder, A-Doc), Jason Fitzroy Jeffers (programmer & filmmaker), and Nausheen Dadabhoy (Director, Halal Bodies, and Director of Photography, The A-List: 15 Stories from Asian Pacific Diasporas).
9:00 pm PT: Join us for the World Premiere of Uncommitted, the new documentary directed by Razi Jafri and supported by the Firelight Fund. The film follows Arab and Muslim grassroots organizers and their elected allies as they build the Uncommitted National Movement from the ground up.
