Resources & Case Studies

Resources & Case Studies

The Field Guide has drawn extensively from impact case studies and we highly recommend you also get inspired and empowered. Stand on the shoulders of others! Of course we also recommend that you watch as many of the full films as possible so you can put together the creative potential with the impact strategy. We are also always looking to include great new examples so please email us your suggestions.

Collective Wisdom: Co-Creating Media for Equity and Justice

Book
Narrative Change/Cultural Strategy
Featured

how to co-create — and why: the emergence of media co-creation as a concept and as a practice grounded in equity and justice

Collective Wisdom: Co-Creating Media for Equity and Justice

Centralised Indigeneous Fellowship

Website
Funding
Featured

The fellowship is focused on the career advancement of First Nations documentary filmmakers

Centralised Indigeneous Fellowship

Give Up Tomorrow/Case Study

PDF
Examples of Impact
Featured

miscarriage of justice in the Philippines

Give Up Tomorrow/Case Study

MasahatCommunity Cinemas Network

Website
Distribution
Featured

pan-Arab network of community cinemas, non-commercial spaces, where film lovers can come together to watch powerful, independent Arab film

MasahatCommunity Cinemas Network

Expert Webinar: How to finance an impact campaign?

Video
Funding

who can help finance an impact campaign?

Expert Webinar: How to finance an impact campaign?

A Reckoning

Website
Independent Media

Sonya Children on why and how the documentary film industry must chart a new path forward

A Reckoning

The Evolution of Impact: The Future of Social Change and Nonfiction Storytelling

Website
Narrative Change/Cultural Strategy

by Sahar Driver and Sonya Childress

The Evolution of Impact: The Future of Social Change and Nonfiction Storytelling

Guide to Filmmaking for a More Diverse and Universal Audience

PDF
Audiences

preliminary concepts and evidence-based guidelines for filmmaking capable of reaching a more diverse and universal audience

Guide to Filmmaking for a More Diverse and Universal Audience

Midwest Academy Strategy Chart

PDF
Strategic Planning

tool for developing a strategy

PDF

No Impact Man/Case Study

Video
Examples of Impact

family attempts to make net environmental impact

No Impact Man/Case Study

Sundance Collab Grants & Opportunities

Website
Funding

list of film and media grants, labs, contests and fellowships

Sundance Collab Grants & Opportunities

The House I Live In/Case Study

PDF
Examples of Impact

the personal impact of the US government's "war on drugs"

The House I Live In/Case Study