FIRELIGHT FILMS IS HIRING LINE PRODUCERS!
Founded by award-winning filmmaker Stanley Nelson, Firelight Films produces documentary films and develops strategies, partnerships, and materials to reach and engage diverse audiences.
Firelight Films productions have garnered multiple Primetime Emmys, Peabodys, and Sundance awards. Among them, Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre for the HISTORY Channel; Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy for Netflix; and Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool, The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, and Freedom Riders, all for PBS. Recent and upcoming Firelight Films productions include the Academy Award® nominated Attica, about the 1971 prison rebellion in upstate New York, for Showtime, and Becoming Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom forthcoming in Fall 2022 for PBS.
Line Producer Responsibilities:
Reports to Supervising Producer
● Reviews budgets, budget assumptions, schedules and calendars
● Track spending and costs.
● Provides cost reports as required.
● Managing invoices and approval process.
● Provides weekly production updates and status reports.
● Tracks contracts and payment schedules.
TO APPLY
Interested candidates should contact productionteam@firelightmedia.org
Please be sure to put: “[ROLE] - [FIRST NAME] [LAST NAME]” in the Subject line.