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.
Asian American Documentary Network: Crew Database
A-Doc members and their areas of expertise in filmmaking and storytelling
Non-Fiction Core Application Project
collaborative effort by grantors who regularly fund documentary projects to standardize application requirements, with the aim of fostering greater a…
Brown Girls Doc Mafia
working to disrupt inequity in the film industry by nurturing, amplifying, and investing in the creative capacity and professional success of our mem…
Negotiating Social Impact Rights in Documentary Film
tangible guidance to assist filmmakers navigate their social impact work in the multi-platform, streaming age of documentary
List of impact friendly festivals
more than 300 carefully listed events, with “impact friendly” events highlighted
Strategic Plan Worksheet
Use this worksheet to lay out your film's message, goals, the "agents" who can help you achieve them, and more.
Beyond Resilience
series of screenings, essays, and curated conversations that explore the challenges, strategies, and experiences of creating and distributing work du…
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…
A Reckoning
Sonya Children on why and how the documentary film industry must chart a new path forward
Campaign Environment Quadrant
Understanding whether an issue is relatively known or unknown and whether there is strong and organised opposition or minimal resistance could inform…
