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.

Give Up Tomorrow/Case Study

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Examples of Impact
Featured

miscarriage of justice in the Philippines

Give Up Tomorrow/Case Study

MasahatCommunity Cinemas Network

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

MasahatCommunity Cinemas Network

Collective Wisdom: Co-Creating Media for Equity and Justice

Book
Narrative Change/Cultural Strategy
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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 Indigenous Fellowship

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

Centralised Indigenous Fellowship

The StoryBoard Collective

Website
Funding

investing in documentary projects and organisations that show great potential for impact and providing a work and convening space for creative change…

The StoryBoard Collective

Issue Areas

Website
Narrative Change/Cultural Strategy

research on how people think about different social issues

website

Cinema for Change

Website
Festivals

festival featuring films that share the values ​​of the Sustainable Development Goals

Cinema for Change

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

Beyond Empathy

Website
Narrative Change/Cultural Strategy

Sonya Childress argues for more strategic uses of documentary film that don't normalize whiteness

Beyond Empathy

Impact campaign template

Spreadsheet
Strategic Planning

guidance in developing a campaign plan

Impact campaign template

Team Member Priorities

PDF
Team Building

a tool to help the film team surface their individual priorities to support a successful collaboration

Team Member Priorities

Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country/Case Study

PDF
Examples of Impact

the brave video journalists of Burma who covered the Saffron Revolution

Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country/Case Study