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

Give Up Tomorrow/Case Study

PDF
Examples of Impact
Featured

miscarriage of justice in the Philippines

Give Up Tomorrow/Case Study

Centralised Indigenous Fellowship

Website
Funding
Featured

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

Centralised Indigenous Fellowship

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

Aflamuna

Website
Narrative Change/Cultural Strategy

working to harness the power of independent Arab cinema to elevate the most pressing social, political, and cultural movements of our time

Aflamuna

Docco Labs

Website
Independent Media

independent media training and promotion

website

A Conversation about Cultural Strategy

Website
Narrative Change/Cultural Strategy

summary of conversations about cultural strategy, its values, and theory of change

website

The Last Men In Aleppo/Case Study

Video
Examples of Impact

the lives of three White Helmets during the Syrian civil war

The Last Men In Aleppo/Case Study

Considering a Trauma-Informed Process In Documentary Filmmaking

Website
Ethics

"Too often, it’s the folk whose stories make documentaries possible who are the last to be considered when a film project is conceived and pursued."

Considering a Trauma-Informed Process In Documentary Filmmaking

Impact Kickstart

Website
Funding

Impact Kickstart supports underrepresented filmmakers with resources, strategic goals for impact, and specific plans to engage future partners and au…

website

Collective Lens Impact and Distribution FAQ

PDF
Distribution

learnings around how distribution and impact can work together

Collective Lens Impact and Distribution FAQ

Aflamuna Impact Narrative Shift Fellows: Maya Newell, Rachel Naŋinaaq Edwardson and William Tilmouth

2025
Video
Partnerships

Filmmakers, impact producers, and a community leader share insights on In My Blood It Runs and co-creating impact strategies across films..

Aflamuna Impact Narrative Shift Fellows: Maya Newell, Rachel Naŋinaaq Edwardson and William Tilmouth