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.
MasahatCommunity Cinemas Network
pan-Arab network of community cinemas, non-commercial spaces, where film lovers can come together to watch powerful, independent Arab film
Centralised Indigenous Fellowship
The fellowship is focused on the career advancement of First Nations documentary filmmakers
Collective Wisdom: Co-Creating Media for Equity and Justice
how to co-create — and why: the emergence of media co-creation as a concept and as a practice grounded in equity and justice
Center for Media & Social Impact: Documentary and Independent Media
reports on issues facing independent, documentary and public media
We Set Out to Make a Film About Struggle: Distribution Case Study of Amazon Labor Documentary ‘UNION’
reveals key dates, budget actuals and strategy following legacy distributor rejections
When Cruelty is the Point, We Still Need a Trauma-Informed Process in Documentary Filmmaking
Natalie Bullock Brown of the Documentary Accountability Working Group (DAWG) writes about what must be considered "when a filmmaker endeavors to tell…
