Bonfire Media Co

03/14/2024

Our documentary with the Toxic Prisons Campaign and is having another screening, this time at Temple Law!

Come out to Klein Hall, Room K1A today at 4pm for a screening and talk back! Hope to see you there.

12/02/2023

Thank you for the kind words! SIFTMedia 215 Collective

An official Welcome to GABRIELLE PATTERSON to SIFTMedia 215 Collective So glad to have you as a SIFTer!

Gabrielle is an animator, illustrator, and visual artist based in Philadelphia. She is also a worker-owner of Bonfire Media Collective Bonfire Media Co a video production cooperative dedicated to telling human stories that catalyze social change.

Most recently, Gabrielle Patterson has become a recipient of the 2023 Leeway Foundation Media Artist + Activist Residency Grant

2023 Residencies – $25,000 – Discipline: Media Arts
Social Change / Intent: Cultural Preservation, Environmental Justice, Racial Justice

Gabrielle will collaborate with THE PEOPLE'S KITCHEN to create a mixed media video piece, as well as illustrations, animations, and short-form video content for social media on gardening, sustainable agriculture, and food traditions. Through relationship building, interviews, and surveys, she will learn about the food traditions of the neighbors of The People’s Kitchen Gardens, the impact the gardens have on them, and incorporate this knowledge into her work – amplifying the garden’s larger goals related to land justice, food insecurity, and community land sovereignty.

https://siftmedia215.org/2023/09/24/sifters-current-highlights/

The People's Kitchen Philly Black Women Filmmakers

10/17/2023

Join us for a PREMIERE of the Human Rights Coalition's new documentary, "I Can't Breath: The Toxic Prisons Campaign for Environmental Justice.”

Come hear directly from people who have experienced the impacts of environmental injustice within our carceral system and how they organizing for their right to health and safety.

The La La Lil Jidar collective is co-hosting this screening because of the shared model of our carceral system in the U.S. and in Palestine.

Toxic Prison Campaign by .

Film made by .

🚪Doors open at 6:00pm

Film starts at 6:30pm.

P.S. Bring your headphones to catch audio clips linked via QR code to the photos in the exhibit. 🎧

🎟️ RSVP REQUIRED. Link in Bio.

03/09/2023

Happy International Women's Day!

02/21/2023

Education Law Center is big on helping families, educators and young people. Shoutout to a great client! Here are some of Bonfire’s shots from their recent ceremony at Vie By Cescaphe. Preserving this momentous ceremony - full of powerful stories and joyous moments - was very exciting. Bonfire also shot Education Law Center’s staff headshots, as so much of their staff and network were present for the event. It was a great opportunity to get professional headshots for many people. Contact us if you need photography, video, or animation services through @Bonfire.coop

01/29/2023

E-A-G-L-E-S!!!!!

01/25/2023

Hi everyone! We are hoping that your 2023 is getting off to a great start. We here at Bonfire Media Collective have been taking time to reflect on the past year and what we are striving for in the future. We are reevaluating some of our approaches and also looking to connect with more video professionals and media cooperatives in the Philadelphia region and beyond. We are grateful for the amazing clients that we got to work with in 2022. Look out for new posts from us soon highlighting our recent projects! Until then here’s a collage of some of our favorite shots from this year.

If you would like to connect with Bonfire, we encourage you to reach out to us via our website or email us at [email protected]. Links are also in our bio.

A big thanks to our 2022 clients: Alexis Lieberman MD, Advocare Fairmount Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Philadelphia Bail Fund, Philadelphia Area Cooperative Alliance, Education Law Center, Theatre In The X, The 24 Hour Plays, and Anglers Club of Philadelphia. We look forward to another year of video production, photography, animation, and live streaming facilitation.

01/07/2023

It was fantastic to have Theatre In The X as a photography client in 2022. Seeing their production of Dreamgirls was a highlight of the summer. Here are just a few of the shots we got that night.

12/06/2022

Thanks to our past client Councilmember Kendra Brooks for sharing information about resources for our communities.

Did you know that ALL Philadelphia residents are eligible for FREE food? 🥔🥬 Just visit phila.gov/food or call 311 to find a food site near you.

11/24/2022

We are thankful for our fantastic network, community, and clients. Wishing everyone a safe and happy holiday!

11/02/2022

Halloween is over for now but take a look at some costumes we have photographed

10/27/2022

Very cool workshops from a local media org in our network.

Hello PWIFT Members!

Scribe Video Center has released their Fall-Winter 2022-2023 programs and offerings. This season’s workshops have something for everyone, at a variety of skill levels and ages.

Whether you are just starting out and want to get your hands dirty with production, podcasting and radio (Camera and Lighting, Audio Field Recording, etc), or you are a more seasoned filmmaker trying to take your craft to the next level (Scaling Up, Festival Ready, etc) there is a class or workshop for you.

Join the media community! Visit scribe.org to learn more about what Scribe Video Center has to offer, join their mailing list, become a member, and see what other resources there are for makers, producers, and storytellers of all levels.

Follow on social media , where they will be posting more information about each program and other opportunities and events.

Scribe Video Center, a non-profit organization founded in December of 1982 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, seeks to explore, develop, and advance the use of electronic media. Including video and audio, as an artistic media and as tools for progressive social change. The workshop program at Scribe Video Center is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.

08/24/2022

They're your Dreamgirls! Thrilled to witness and photograph Theatre In The X's stage adaptation of Dreamgirls. Take a look at some of the night's photography from Alex Wiles. Theatre in the X put on a captivating and emotional performance several nights in a row- bringing arts and culture to the West Philly community. Keep your eye on them because more big things are definitely to come.

08/17/2022

We just heard noise rock duo Lightning Bolt is coming back to Philly next month. Here are some of our photos from their intense, sold-out show with Moor Mother at First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia in 2018.

08/17/2022

A few photos from the Philly Theater Meetup today at PHS Pop Up Garden on South today. Big thanks to for organizing this fun event.

06/25/2022

Some photos from the protest Friday. Philly will never fail to show up and stand up for our rights and for each other.

04/01/2022

An engaging interview with the insightful Nailah Frye of Philadelphia Area Cooperative Alliance. Big thanks to Making Worlds Bookstore for providing us a great location. Making Worlds is PACA's newest co-op!

04/01/2022

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Happy April Fools! 😂

02/23/2022

This warm weather is giving flashbacks to Spring.

We got this colorful flower footage at a shoot on the farms of Saul Agricultural High School

02/10/2022

that time The Spanish American Civic Association hired Bonfire to teach them hands on, how to plan end execute their own video productions. We worked with them in areas of sound, light, camera operation and much more.

02/10/2022

to Kendra Brooks' campaign. It was a real joy to support their media strategy with video. Councilwoman Kendra Brooks and her team ran a fantastic campaign. Thursday or not, it's always a great time to celebrate great leaders in our community.

Kendra Brooks is the first Working Families Party member elected to Philadelphia City Council in history. Kendra has deep roots working across movement-build...

02/03/2022

Happy and !

12/25/2021

We hope you're all having a safe and happy holiday.

11/29/2021

We traveled out to Lancaster to Spanish American Civic Association to set up their new media center! Editing stations, cameras, audio equipment, hardware, software and even furniture! Soon we'll return to teach staff how to use all this cool equipment to do interviews and other film and video projects. Ben Felker-Quinn Alex Wiles Emily Ana Zeitlyn

11/09/2021

Tomorrow at 7pm! Pre-register to see our work with Amistad Law Project & many other awesome local filmmakers at Scribe's Storyville! Q&A afterwards

This season, Scribe extends its summer Street Movies! series into the fall. This special screening will showcase five Philadelphia-based independent films focusing on community stories of resilience, justice and calls to defund the police.

11/05/2021

Check out our newest video that we created for New Jersey Policy Perspective!

Alex Wiles
Ben Felker-Quinn
Emily Ana Zeitlyn

This is "Blueprint to Secure A Just Recovery - New Jersey Policy Perspective w/captions" by Bonfire Media on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and…

11/05/2021

Please attend this virtual event which will include our video we created for Amistad Law Project! Wednesday at 7pm! Thanks for running this amazing program, Scribe Video Center!

This season, Scribe extends its summer Street Movies! series into the fall. This special screening will showcase five Philadelphia-based independent films focusing on community stories of resilience, justice and calls to defund the police.

09/06/2021

Happy Labor Day! Here's a lo-fi flashback to when Bonfire member Alex Wiles interviewed Jim Moran on MMPTV about organized labor's role in national politics and what can be learned from efforts to form a national Labor Party in the mid 90s.

In addition to heading up the Philadelphia branch of the Labor Party, Moran was also executive director of the Philadelphia Project on Occupational Safety and Health and was a member of seven different unions. Moran also shares his thoughts on the Occupy Wall Street movement, the challenges facing American workers and the need for various interest groups to join forces to fight for economic justice and human rights.

In this election-week edition of MMPTV, host Alex Wiles interviews Philadelphia labor legend Jim Moran to learn about organized labor's role in national poli...

09/06/2021

Happy Labor Day! We're proud to have made this video about the Fair Workweek laws passed a few years ago giving more workers more protections under the law. Because workers deserve to be treated fairly!

Workers tell their stories about why they need a with better rules and better protections in the workplace.

09/06/2021

UVC Sanitizing box made by Bonfire member Helyx Chase Scearce Horwitz! Very cool device that uses UV light to kill viruses and bacteria which makes our equipment and work cleaner and safer. Cool as heck! Thanks Helyx and happy Labor Day to everyone.