Silent Beauty by Jazmín López
Two U.S. Latinx filmmakers, Jazmín López and Emily Cohen Ibáñez, have been announced as two of the seven grantees of Firelight Media’s 2021 Impact Campaign Fund. The selected films tell layered stories about timely political and social issues, including López’s upcoming Silent Beauty and Cohen Ibáñez’s documentary Fruits of Labor.
Firelight Media’s 2021 Impact Campaign Fund supports the creation of audience engagement and impact campaigns associated with films made by current or former Firelight-supported filmmakers. The award-winning projects are socially relevant, address or engage underrepresented issues or communities, and are accountable to the impacted communities their films represent. Each grants range between $10,000 to $25,000 and the opportunity to gain impact and engagement strategy support and advising. Recipients will use the grants to build engagement campaigns to cultivate and captivate wide diverse local, regional, and national audiences.
Silent Beauty is an autobiographical exploration of López’s family’s history with child sexual abuse and a culture of silence, while Fruits of Labor follows a Mexican-American teenager dreams of graduating high school, when ICE raids in her community threaten to separate her family and force her to become her family’s breadwinner.
