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
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
Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (CPH:DOX)
impact-friendly documentary film festival
The Transformative Power of Film
article about Stanford University study about how stories can change people's minds
Jonathan Logan Family Foundation
supports organizations that advance social justice by empowering world-changing work in investigative journalism, documentary film and arts & culture
Sisters in Cinema
Chicago based non-profit with an inclusive mission to center and celebrate Black girls, women, and gender nonconforming media makers, providing progr…
Story Money Impact
maximizing the social impact of select Canadian documentary films
