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The Impact Field Guide and Tool Kit: From Art to Impact

A set of tools and guides designed to help all of us who are working with film make even greater impact than we do already.

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The Impact Field Guide and Tool Kit: From Art to Impact

You just finished your boundary-pushing documentary. Now what?

Dive into this all-encompassing Field Guide, for maximizing the impact of your film. This handy guide covers a wide range of impact activities, from getting your film in front of politicians who are helping to influence policy, to developing plans with NGO partners so they can use it to mobilize supporters and reach new communities, developing a curriculum guide to help educators use it in the classroom, and much more.

Written by the Doc Society, with support from Ford Foundation, Bertha Foundation, Sundance Institute, and Knight Foundation, this interactive PDF is linked with hundreds of resources that will amplify your film's message.


Storytelling has intrinsic properties - but what you do with that story is everything. Today, documentary filmmakers are reaching beyond the offer of traditional distribution on television or in cinemas to think about “Impact,” “Outreach” and “Engagement” campaigns.
—Doc Society

Download the Impact Field Guide and Toolkit.

And check out Story Power, VC's editorial column about Impact Campaigns here!

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