TRANSFORMING CHILDREN’S LIVES

Join NewFilmmakes Los Angeles (NFMLA), Alliance of Women Directors (AWD), Shine Global, and Creating Creators for an Official 2026 Sundance Film Festival Panel held at Sundance Film Festival’s Filmmaker Lodge on Main Street in Park City. Moderated by Sola Fasehun.

As we close out an extraordinary year — one that marked Shine Global’s 20th Anniversary — we are deeply grateful for the community that makes our work possible. Thanks to our donors and supporters, 2025 has been one of the most impactful years in our history. We hope you’ll continue to support our work.

Shine Global is proud to announce that it has won two 2025 Anthem Awards, which celebrate purpose- and mission-driven work from around the world, for our films and impact campaigns for Anuja and Comedy Against the Odds.

As the Grand Prize Winner, Speak. will receive a $25,000 prize package, which includes a cash award and impact campaign services from Picture Motion, the leading marketing and advocacy agency for social impact films. The award will be officially presented during Shine Global’s 20th Anniversary Celebration on September 30, 2025 in New York City, honoring two decades of impactful storytelling and a dedication to improving children’s lives through the power of film.

Speak., a feature documentary directed by Jennifer Tiexiera and Guy Mossman, follows five bold young voices on a high-stakes journey to win “the Super Bowl of public speaking,” the National Speech and Debate Association (NSDA) Championships in the Original Oratory category. Future stars such as Oprah Winfrey, Brad Pitt, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, and the film’s own executive producer Josh Gad, all participated as teens.