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.

Film and Human Rights Master Class

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Production

self-guided tour through making and using human rights media to change the world

Film and Human Rights Master Class

WeOwnTV

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Independent Media

collaborative media project that promotes self-expression and balances intensive media production training with professional development

WeOwnTV

Investigating Documentary’s Social Influence and Impact in the Participatory Media Age

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Examples of Impact

What’s Really Needed to Produce and Sustain Social Impact in Documentary Film?

Investigating Documentary’s Social Influence and Impact in the Participatory Media Age

Sisters in Cinema

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Independent Media

Chicago based non-profit with an inclusive mission to center and celebrate Black girls, women, and gender nonconforming media makers, providing progr…

Sisters in Cinema

Collective Lens Impact and Distribution FAQ

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Distribution

learnings around how distribution and impact can work together

Collective Lens Impact and Distribution FAQ

Impact Campaign Budget Example 3: Screenings

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Budgets

sample budget illustrating possible costs of campaign focused primarily on community screenings

Impact Campaign Budget Example 3: Screenings

The Last Men In Aleppo/Case Study

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Examples of Impact

the lives of three White Helmets during the Syrian civil war

The Last Men In Aleppo/Case Study

Active Voice Library

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Strategic Planning

discussion guides and toolkits from Active Voice's campaign

Active Voice Library

Real People, Real Stories: Ensuring the Well-Being of Documentary Participants

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Participants

findings of worldwide film participant focus group

Real People, Real Stories: Ensuring the Well-Being of Documentary Participants

Empact

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Audiences

platform that connects people who have been moved by the social issues highlighted in the media they just watched with opportunities to make a real i…

Empact

A Conversation about Cultural Strategy

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Narrative Change/Cultural Strategy

summary of conversations about cultural strategy, its values, and theory of change

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An Inconvenient Truth/Case Study

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Examples of Impact

Al Gore warns climate change is real

An Inconvenient Truth/Case Study