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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.

Dangerous Documentaries: Reducing Risk when Telling Truth to Power

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Ethics

how to mitigate known risks

Dangerous Documentaries: Reducing Risk when Telling Truth to Power

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Center for Media & Social Impact

Climate Story Unit

Website
Narrative Change/Cultural Strategy

dedicated to supporting transformative storytelling to advance a climate just and biodiverse future

Website

Doc Society

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

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Peace is Loud

Ethic Resource Library

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Ethics

searchable library for ethical inquiry

Website

Documentary Producers Alliance

Impact Application Checklist and Guidelines

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Funding

template designed to standardize application questions for impact funding

Impact Application Checklist and Guidelines

Website PDF

Sundance Institute, Global Impact Producers Alliance

Safe + Secure

Website

guidance to address safety and security issues facing documentary filmmakers

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Doc Society

Who is Dayani Cristal?/Case Study

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Examples of Impact

the dangers of the migrant trail in Central America

Website

Doc Society

JustFilms

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Funding

JustFilms funds social justice storytelling and the 21st-century arts infrastructure that supports it

Website

Ford Foundation

Platforms for Impact info sessions: Eventive & Skylight

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Distribution

how to use the Eventive platform to amplify audiences for impact

Platforms for Impact info sessions: Eventive & Skylight

Website Video

Global Impact Producers Alliance

Berlinale

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Festivals

impact-friendly film festival

website

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Berlinale

Beyond Empathy

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Narrative Change/Cultural Strategy

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

Website

Firelight Media

Docubox: An African Filmmaker's Manifesto

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Independent Media

"We are all Africans. Every last one of us."

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Docubox