We’re excited to share that Joel Mejia — director/editor of Time is Art: The Frequency of Love — has officially submitted the film to the Firelight Media Documentary Lab, a fellowship supporting filmmakers of color creating bold and visionary nonfiction films.
For more than a decade, Joel has been shaping the Time is Art journey through deeply intuitive storytelling, editing, and creative exploration. As co-founder of Things Are Changing Productions, his work has consistently explored synchronicity, consciousness, healing, creativity, and humanity’s collective evolution.
Our new film continues that exploration — weaving together conversations and experiences around love, frequency, awakening, and the deeper connections that unite us during a time of profound transformation. What began years ago as a documentary project has evolved into something much larger: an ongoing exploration of consciousness, art, and the unseen patterns shaping our lives.
One thing we’ve learned through the grant submission process is that sometimes the prize is the process itself. While opportunities lDocumentary Lab are incredibly competitive, preparing the submission invited us into important conversations about the future of documentary filmmaking, ethics, impact, and storytelling in an increasingly artificial world.
As part of the application, we spent time reflecting on Firelight Media’s ethical framework surrounding the use of AI in documentary filmmaking — exploring not only if AI should be used, but when, how, and what responsibility filmmakers have in maintaining authenticity, transparency, and human-centered storytelling.
The process also helped us further clarify and deepen the impact campaign surrounding the film — particularly our growing focus on reconnecting humanity to creativity, intuition, nature, and what we call “natural time” in a hyper-digital age. We recently shared more about this vision in our previous blog post, A Return to Natural Time in an Artificial World.
Whether or not the film is selected, we’re grateful for the opportunity to refine the vision, ask deeper questions, and continue aligning the project with the values at the heart of this journey from the very beginning.
Thank you to everyone who continues to support independent documentary filmmaking and believes in stories that encourage us to slow down, reconnect, and remember what makes us human.
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