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.
Manifesto for Community Film Distribution and Exhibition in Latin America
collectively-created set of principles to guide distribution and exhibition in Latin America
Impact Production in Higher Education: Shaping Future Change Makers through Film Education
Impact production is an important component of well-rounded film education programmes that seek to shape a new generation of socially and environment…
Docubox: An African Filmmaker's Manifesto
"We are all Africans. Every last one of us."
The Crisis Isn’t Cinema. It’s the Industry.
"As global systems unravel—from media monopolies to cultural institutions—the world of film mirrors the instability, but it also carries within it th…
A Conversation about Cultural Strategy
summary of conversations about cultural strategy, its values, and theory of change
Considering a Trauma-Informed Process In Documentary Filmmaking
"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."
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
Beyond Empathy
Sonya Childress argues for more strategic uses of documentary film that don't normalize whiteness
Film intervention increases empathic understanding of formerly incarcerated people and support for criminal justice reform
sharing personal narratives can increase connection with highly stigmatized groups
