Six Nest-supported filmmakers receive The Spark Fund
March 25, 2022
Awards

We are egg-tremely proud to see six Nest-supported filmmakers among Firelight Media Spark Fund’s 36 recipients. This one-time opportunity offers a $50,000 stipend to established, independent documentary filmmakers who self-identify as Black, Indigenous, and/or people of color (BIPOC) and whose work on humanities-themed projects was disrupted by the COVID-19 public health emergency. Congratulations to all the recipients!

Assia Boundaoui The Feeling of Being Watched 2016 Accelerator Lab

2016 (Egg)celerator Lab grantee Assia Boundaoui (The Feeling of Being Watched)

A headshot of a woman looking at the camera with curly medium length hair, wearing a blazer and a necklace

2020 (Egg)celerator Lab grantee Débora Souza Silva (For Our Children)

Portrait of a woman with short medium hair, slightly tilting down their head and looking up at the camera

Nest-supported filmmaker Farihah Zaman (Remote Area Medical)

Portrait of a woman with medium length hair, wearing a scarf and looking

2017 Chicken & Egg Award recipient Grace Lee (American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs)

Headshot of a woman with short curly hair, looking at the camera and with a blurry background

2016 Chicken & Egg Award recipient Michèle Stephenson

Made in India Vaishali Sinha

Nest-supported filmmaker Vaishali Sinha (Made in India)

Headshot of a woman tilting her head to her left and widely smiling. She wears dreadlocks, an open shirt with a shirt underneath and a necklace.

We are sending an extra special congratulations to our Senior Creative Consultant Yvonne Welbon, who was also selected as one of the recipients.

Check out the full list of recipients and learn more about them with this link.

Two stills of Ascension and Writing With Fire facing each other
Ascension and Writing With Fire Nominated for the 94th Academy Awards!
Graphic: Mariana Sanson
Ascension Soars at Cinema Eye Honors
newsletter sign up