Institutions. The flagship Documentary Lab program has supported more than 80 emerging filmmakers over the past decade, who have premiered at festivals such as Sundance, and gone on to earn numerous festival, Peabody, and Emmy awards.
She has written several films alongside documentarian Stanley Nelson including: Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities; Through the Fire: The Legacy of Barack Obama; Freedom Riders; Jonestown: The Life and Death of the Peoples Temple; Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind; and The Murder of Emmett Till. Marcia received a Primetime Emmy nomination and won the Writers’ Guild Award for best nonfiction writing for her work on The Murder of Emmett Till , and was honored with a 2016 Muse Award from New York Women in Film & Television, as well as the 2019 Luminary Award from BlackStar Film Festival.
Marcia will also serve as the writer for Firelight’s upcoming 4-hour documentary series, Creating The New World, on the transatlantic slave trade.
Marcia is a member of AMPAS, currently sits on the Peabody Board of Directors - East Coast, and is a member of the Board for Martha's Vineyard Film Society.
Sessions in which Marcia Smith participates
Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
Panel
Caty Chattoo, Center for Media & Social Impact, American University School of Communication (Moderator)
Jeffrey Jones, Peabody Awards (Participant)
Cara Mertes, Moving Image Exploration, Ford Foundation (Participant)
Marcia Smith, Firelight Media (Participant)
Sessions in which Marcia Smith attends
ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 8
Panel
Jean Tsien, A-Doc / Independent Filmmaker (Moderator)
James Costa, International Documentary Association (Participant)
Kara Magsanoc-Alikpala, Call Her Ganda (Participant)
PJ Raval, Unraval Pictures (Participant)
Marty Syjuco, Thoughtful Robot Productions (Participant)
Lisa Valencia-Svensson, Multitude Films (Participant)
ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 10
Panel
Iyabo Boyd, Brown Girls Doc Mafia (Moderator)
Abby Sun, IDA (Participant)
Joseph Tovares (Participant)
Donald Young, CAAM (Participant)
Cinerama Dome - Theater
Keynote
Michèle Stephenson, Rada Film Group (Participant)
ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 10
Panel
Loira Limbal, Firelight Media (Moderator)
Lyric R Cabral, Filmmaker (T)ERROR (Participant)
Jason DaSilva, AXS LAB INC. (Participant)
Ben-Alex Dupris, Bendigenous (Participant)
Deborah S. Esquenazi, Myth of Monsters Media, LLC (Participant)
Edwin Martinez, Nicole Films (Participant)
Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
Performance
Katerina Cizek, Co Creation Studio at MIT Open Documentary Lab (Participant)
Sarah Wolozin, MIT Open Documentary Lab (Participant)
Cinerama Dome - Theater
Presentation
Caty Chattoo, Center for Media & Social Impact, American University School of Communication (Participant)
Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
Panel
Julia Bacha, Just Vision (Participant)
Duong-Chi Do, Media Impact & Engagement Strategist (Moderator)
Nancy Buirski, Augusta Films (Participant)
Sonya Childress, Firelight Media (Participant)
David France, Public Square Films (Participant)
Cinerama Dome - Theater
Keynote
Chi-hui Yang, Ford Foundation (Participant)
ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 10
Panel
Locsi Ferra, Level Forward (Participant)
Sonya Childress, Firelight Media (Moderator)
Maori Holmes, BlackStar Film Festival (Participant)
Katie Mota, Wise Entertainment (Participant)
Deana Nassar, Arab Film and Media Institute (Participant)
Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
Performance
Dale Cohen, UCLA School of Law (Participant)
Dana Merwin, International Documentary Association (Moderator)
Simon Kilmurry, International Documentary Association (Participant)
Katie Townsend, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (Participant)
James Wheaton, first amendment project/uc berkeley/stanford (Participant)
Marco Williams, Hiptruth Productions (Participant)
Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
Panel
Leslie Fields-Cruz, Black Public Media (Participant)
Renee Tajima-Pena, A-Doc, UCLA (Moderator)
Leanne Ferrer, Pacific Islanders in Communications (Participant)
Stephen Gong, CAAM (Participant)
Luis Ortiz, Latino Public Broadcasting (Participant)
Shirley Sneve, SKS Consulting (Participant)
Donald Young, CAAM (Participant)