Resources

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.

Kenya
Docubox: An African Filmmaker's Manifesto
Docubox
"We are all Africans. Every last one of us."
Topic: Independent Media
Thought Piece Website
Docubox: An African Filmmaker's Manifesto
United States of America
Kinema for Filmmakers
Kinema
Tactical tips, tools, and resources to support filmmakers to successfully release their independent film
Topic: Distribution
Tool Website
Kinema for Filmmakers
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
Modeling Care, Safety and Wellbeing in Your Impact Campaign
United States of America
Impact Campaign Builder
Engage Media
What is your film project trying to change?
Topic: Strategic Planning
Tool PDF
United States of America
Internal Discovery Questionnaire
Peace is Loud
Reflection exercise to help begin developing the strategy for a film impact campaign
Topic: Strategic Planning
Tool Website
Internal Discovery Questionnaire
United States of America
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
Deep Down/Case Study
South Africa
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
Miners Shot Down/Case Study
Australia
Impact Distribution Lab
Unquiet
Intensive impact lab, primarily for documentaries
Topic: Distribution
Lab/Workshop Website
Congo (the Democratic Republic of the)
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
Virunga/Case Study
United States of America
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
The Evolution of Impact: The Future of Social Change and Nonfiction Storytelling
United States of America
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
Storytellers' Guide to Changing the World
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
Brown Girls Doc Mafia