Folks, it has been a long time coming but the second edition of the Impact Field Guide is now live having been lovingly updated over 6 months by Impact Strategist Sahar Driver.
In this updated version, we include a new chapter on working with short form films, updates on global distribution, considerations around risk and safety for film subjects, reflections on filmmaking as an emancipatory practice and new examples of innovative film campaigns from every continent.
The Impact Field Guide also contains one of the largest collections of film impact case studies in one place—73 gorgeous films with big stories to tell, drawn from our broad family of documentary film makers & impact producers, community organizers, academics, broadcasters, distributors, cultural curators and many more partners from all over the world.
The new version is available in English online at impactguide.org. Right now our sisters at Ambulante are working on the new Spanish edition, DocSP in Brazil on the Portuguese. And with requests for French, Arabic and Cantonese from the community, any help would be much appreciated to keep the guide as accessible as possible, if you would like to help translate.
This is a free resource by the community for the community. And when we say take it, teach it, share it—we really mean it. Please just credit where it’s due and let us know how it has been useful.
The 2019 edition of the Impact Field Guide includes new contributions from: Jad Abi-Khalil, Macky Alston, Abigail Anketell-Jones, Lindsay Green Barber, Julia Bacha, Stephanie Bleyer, Kylie Boltin, Jeffrey Bowers, Caitlin Boyle, Marco Cartolano, Giuliano Cavalli, Sonya Childress, Kristy Chin, Brenda Coughlin, Inti Cordera, Santhosh Daniel, Abby Davis, Fiona Dawson, Dina de Veer, Cristine Platt Dewey, Jamie Dobie, Jo-Jo Ellison, Violet Feng, Deirdre Fishel, Edie Gill Holder, Amelia Hapsari, Lee Hirsch, Will Jenkins, Anita Khanna, Judy Kibinge, Fiona Lawson-Baker, Rachel Lears, Sheila Leddy, Alex Lee, Wendy Levy, John Lightfoot, Kathleen Lingo, Mary Macrae, Ani Mercedes, Molly Murphy, Joanna Natasegara, Ina Pira, Michael Premo, Alice Quinlan, Khushboo Ranka, Larissa Rhodes, Theo Rigby, Flor Rubina, Ellen Schneider, Michèle Stephenson, Fran Sterling, Paulina Suárez, Sandra Tabares-Duque, Jennifer Maytorena Taylor, Poh Si Teng, Ayse Toprak, Sophy Sivaraman, Ilse van Velzen, Lynette Wallworth, Emily Wanja, Banker White, Sydelle Willow Smith, Malinda Wink, Samantha Wright, Pamela Yates, Luis González Zaffaroni, Amy Ziering. Allow us to extend a huge high five to our dear colleagues who have helped make this accessible to filmmakers: Ford Foundation, Sundance Institute, Bertha Foundation, Ambulante, DocSP, Dox Box & Knight Foundation. Thank you one and all.
With love and solidarity to all
Beadie Finzi
Director, DOC SOCIETY
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