Color Congress and Lumos Transforms joined forces to implement a foundational eTIRO program to strengthen the network’s capacity to collaborate.

BlackStar 2024 panel "Engines for a New American Narrative Co-Presented by Color Congress" with Anurima Bhargava, Francis Cullado, Marángeli Mejia-Rabell, Nadine Patterson, moderated by Sahar Driver and Sonya Childress.

Color Congress is at the forefront of growing narrative and cultural power through documentary film. Their new report expands on what is needed to support this ecosystem. Read the insightful interview with Co-Directors Sonya Childress and Sahar Driver.

Pure Nonfiction host Thom Powers interviews Sonya and Sahar about how Color Congress is filling a void and what they've learned about building allies in fractious times.

Color Congress Co-Founders & Co-Executive Directors Sahar Driver and Sonya Childress moderated a discussion between Asian American Documentary Network (A-Doc) and Brown Girls Doc Mafia (BGDM) on the ongoing transformation of the documentary field.

by Sonya Childress, for Narrative Initiative

By Sonya Childress, Sahar Driver, Aldita Amaru Gallardo, Jennie Goldfarb, Allistai Mallilin, Lindley Mease, Alicia Sanchez Gill, Angela Vo

By Sahar Driver, for Brown Girls Doc Mafia

Color Congress presents a new report, The People of Color Documentary Ecosystem: Engines for a New American Narrative, in New York City on March 7th, 2024.

By Rebekah Barber

For Non Profit Quarterly

by Rebecca Sun, The Hollywood Reporter

Color Congress hosted its first Annual Showcase, featuring Set Hernandez’ Unseen and Rodrigo Reyes’ Sansón & Me, along with their protagonists and the member organizations that supported the filmmakers’ journey.

Sahar Driver shares the rationale and approach to building up the POC documentary ecosystem at the Media Impact Forum 2023.

by Co-Directors Sahar Driver and Sonya Childress, for Filmmaker Magazine

by Kimberly M. Reason

Read the 2022 Color Congress Impact Report, concluding the first year since the launch of the organization.

by Andrew Tracy, REALSCREEN

by Scott Macaulay, Filmmaker Magazine

Co-Directors Sonya Childress and Sahar Driver pen an article for Ford Foundation about the documentary community of color that drives the mission of the Color Congress forward.

Rashid Shabazz sits down with Color Congress Co-Directors, Sonya Childress and Sahar Driver, for an interview in Documentary magazine.

Read Lauren Pabst’s blog on the MacArthur Foundation site about support for people of color leading a documentary film movement by and for their communities.

This webinar, co-hosted by Trust-Based Philanthropy and Color Congress, focuses on the documentary film funding field contextualized within exciting philanthropy practices.

Check out this frank conversation with the foundation program officers who seeded Color Congress about the political and cultural experiences that shape their worldviews and funding strategies and their thoughts on the future of the documentary field.

If you missed our launch event at Sundance 2022, which was a celebration of leaders and organizations on whose shoulders we stand, you can still check it out.

Color Congress launched in January 2022 with an open call for organizations to apply for unrestricted grant funding. The open call closed in February 2022.