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.

Impact Producer Program

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Strategic Planning

The Impact Producer Program offers professional training, mentorship, practical experience and hands-on work on documentary impact campaigns.

Impact Producer Program

Asian American Documentary Network

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Independent Media

US-based national network that works to increase the visibility and support of Asian Americans in the documentary field

Asian American Documentary Network

ACTivate

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Strategic Planning

tool to understand who is working on an issue, how audiences feel about the issue, and how a story could impact an issue

ACTivate

CITIZENFOUR/Case Study

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Examples of Impact

mass surveillance and its consequences for personal privacy and public policy

CITIZENFOUR/Case Study

Always In Season/Case Study

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Examples of Impact

recent grassroots efforts to acknowledge the victims of lynching, repair the damage, and reconcile in four US communities

Always In Season/Case Study

Impact Production in Higher Education: Shaping Future Change Makers through Film Education

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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…

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In the Spotlight: Crucial Questions for Documentary Participants

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Participants

tool to help filmmakers and participants create healthy dialogues about consent, compensation, creative rights, and other pressing issues (available…

In the Spotlight: Crucial Questions for Documentary Participants

Movies & Grassroots Community Engagement

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Policy Change

investigation into the role of documentary films in legislative and regulatory change and influence in the United States

Movies & Grassroots Community Engagement

Holding Ourselves Accountable: A Consent Calendar Resource

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Participants

model for establishing informed, active consent throughout the filmmaking process (available in English and Spanish)

Holding Ourselves Accountable: A Consent Calendar Resource

La Sandía Digital

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Narrative Change/Cultural Strategy

training in audiovisual production and strategic communication for the defense of human rights and territories

La Sandía Digital

AIDC Indigenous Documentary Placement

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Distribution

designed to provide one mid-career Indigenous practitioner with a unique opportunity to undertake an extended paid placement with the ABC, Australia’…

AIDC Indigenous Documentary Placement

Perspective Fund

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Funding

Perspective provides storytellers and journalists with the funding, tools, and strategy-driven support to tell stories about equity and justice that …

Perspective Fund