The Doc Society's Impact Field Guide database is a collection of tools, organizations, trainings, case studies, templates, funding opportunities, and more to support your efforts to have an impact.
Docubox: An African Filmmaker's Manifesto
Docubox
"We are all Africans. Every last one of us."
Topic: Independent Media
Thought Piece
Website
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Kinema for Filmmakers
Kinema
Tactical tips, tools, and resources to support filmmakers to successfully release their independent film
Topic: Distribution
Tool
Website
Visit
Modeling Care, Safety and Wellbeing in Your Impact Campaign
Global Impact Producers Alliance
Timely conversation about protagonist safety in dangerous times
Topic: Participants
Talk
Video
Watch
Impact Campaign Builder
Engage Media
What is your film project trying to change?
Topic: Strategic Planning
Tool
PDF
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Internal Discovery Questionnaire
Peace is Loud
Reflection exercise to help begin developing the strategy for a film impact campaign
Topic: Strategic Planning
Tool
Website
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Deep Down/Case Study
Doc Society
Who controls, consumes, and benefits from our planet’s shrinking supply of natural resources
Topic: Examples of Impact
Case Study
Video
Climate Change
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Miners Shot Down/Case Study
Doc Society
What really happened at the Marikana Massacre in 2012
Topic: Examples of Impact
Case Study
PDF
Human Rights
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Impact Distribution Lab
Unquiet
Intensive impact lab, primarily for documentaries
Topic: Distribution
Lab/Workshop
Website
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Virunga/Case Study
Doc Society
Africa’s oldest national park is under threat from war and mining
Topic: Examples of Impact
Case Study
PDF
War
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The Evolution of Impact: The Future of Social Change and Nonfiction Storytelling
Color Congress
By Sahar Driver and Sonya Childress
Topic: Narrative Change/Cultural Strategy
Thought Piece
Website
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Storytellers' Guide to Changing the World
Culture Surge
Illuminates how and why stories create cultural, social, and political change
Topic: Narrative Change/Cultural Strategy
Thought Piece
PDF
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Brown Girls Doc Mafia
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…
Topic: Independent Media
Organization
Website
BIPOC
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