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.

Malaysia
Risk Assessment for Social Film Screening
Freedom Film Network
Risk-assessment tool
Tool PDF
Risk Assessment for Social Film Screening
United States of America
Audience Funnel
Aggregate/Doc Society
You must understand where your audience is to be able to bring them to where you need them to be. How do they feel about your issue? What do they kno…
Topic: Audiences
Tool PDF
Audience Funnel
United States of America
Screenings Request Form Template
Peace is Loud
Designed to help facilitate a community screening campaign
Topic: Distribution
Tool Survey
Screenings Request Form Template
United States of America
Holding Ourselves Accountable: A Consent Calendar Resource
Peace is Loud
Model for establishing informed, active consent throughout the filmmaking process (available in English and Spanish)
Topic: Participants
Tool PDF
Holding Ourselves Accountable: A Consent Calendar Resource
United States of America
Impact Campaign Budget Example 2: Full campaign
Peace is Loud
Budget template for robust campaign that included screenings, digital outreach, partnership work, and original resources
Topic: Budgets
Tool Spreadsheet
Impact Campaign Budget Example 2: Full campaign
Non-Fiction Core Application Project
International Documentary Association
Collaborative effort by grantors who regularly fund documentary projects to standardize application requirements, with the aim of fostering greater a…
Topic: Funding
Tool Website
United Kingdom
Necessary Skills Worksheet
Doc Society
Use this worksheet to identify gaps in necessary skills on the team and how to best utilize team members' skills and talents.
Topic: Team Building
Tool PDF
Necessary Skills Worksheet
United Kingdom
Campaign Environment Quadrant
Doc Society
Understanding whether an issue is relatively known or unknown and whether there is strong and organised opposition or minimal resistance could inform…
Topic: Narrative Change/Cultural Strategy
Tool PDF
Campaign Environment Quadrant
France
Impact campaign budget template
Impact Social Club
Guidance in developing a campaign budget
Topic: Budgets
Tool Spreadsheet
Impact campaign budget template
United Kingdom
Strategic Plan Worksheet
Doc Society
Use this worksheet to lay out your film's message, goals, the "agents" who can help you achieve them, and more.
Topic: Strategic Planning
Tool PDF
Strategic Plan Worksheet
United States of America
Film Distribution and Impact Budget Template
Peace is Loud
Template is for a full film distribution and impact campaign budget
Topic: Budgets
Tool Spreadsheet
Film Distribution and Impact Budget Template
United States of America
Film Campaign Screening Host Survey Sample
Peace is Loud
Help to evaluate community screenings work within an impact campaign
Topic: Distribution
Tool Survey
Film Campaign Screening Host Survey Sample