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"This guide is intended to help creators producing or thinking about making shortform video content seeking to counter extremism. Our goal is not to tell you what to create; your original content is what makes your channel creative and organic. Instead, we hope to provide you with tools and tips to ... more

Segundo Foro Latinoamericano de Cine e Impacto Social: Memoria Gráfica

Acción Impacta Cine;Taturana;Ambulante (2023), 60 pp.

Primer Foro Latinoamericano de Cine e Impacto Social: Memorias del Evento

Acción Impacta Cine;Taturana;Ambulante (2022), 17 pp.

Steps Impact Toolkit

Cape Town: Steps (2022), 31 pp.
"The idea of telling stories for change or social impact through film is not new. Yet drafting and implementation of a film impact campaign has evolved over the last few years to include a network of impact practitioners sharing ideas and knowledge. Strategies, guidelines and models have emerged tha ... more

Video for Change Impact Toolkit

EngageMedia;Video4Change Network (2020)
"This toolkit shows you step-by-step how to create impact projects using video. It is designed for documentary video-makers, journalists and organisations using video to engage and create change in their communities. EngageMedia has produced this toolkit in partnership with the Video4Change Network: ... more

The Impact Field Guide and Toolkit: From Art to Impact

London et al.: Doc Society, 2nd ed. (2019), 381 pp.
"This guide is about more than just tools and resources, it’s about building community. As with the process of evaluation, we saw an opportunity to learn about how impact happens and to track how films are catalysing social change. That’s the impetus behind the case studies that make up our Impa ... more

Guía práctica y herramientas para el impacto: Del arte al impacto

London et al.: Doc Society (2019), 237 pp.
"El objetivo de esta guía va más allá de presentar herramientas y recursos, pretende crear comunidad. Igual que sucede con el proceso de evaluación, vimos una oportunidad para aprender cómo se produce el impacto y hacer un seguimiento de cómo las películas están catalizando el cambio social. ... more

O guia de campo: Kit der ferramentas para o impacto. Da arte ao impacto

London et al.: Doc Society (2019), 238 pp.
"Nós oferecemos ideias e abordagens para que você não tenha que lidar com um obstáculo que alguém já ultrapassou e, com isso, concentrar-se nos desafios próprios de seu projeto. Disponibilizamos todas as nossas colaborações, conversas, acordos e desentendimentos com equipes de filmagem incr ... more

The impact field guide and toolkit: From art to impact [in Arabic]

London et al.: Doc Society, 2nd ed. (2019), 238 pp.

Documentary Resistance: Social Change and Participatory Media

New York: Oxford University Press (2019), xiii, 280 pp.
"The potential of documentary moving images to foster democratic exchange has been percolating within media production culture for the last century, and now, with mobile cameras at our fingertips and broadcasts circulating through unpredictable social networks, the documentary impulse is coming into ... more

From the Sofa to the Streets: Strategies to Ignite Social Action Through Documentary Media

Los Angeles: USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center, Media Impact Project (2017), 25 pp.

Shine a Little Light: Celebrities, Humanitarian Documentary, and 'Half the Sky'

In: The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action
Robin Andersen; Robin Purnaka L. de Silva (eds.)
London: Routledge (2017), pp. 395-404
"'Half the Sky' is an ambitious humanitarian documentary about the global crises in gender discrimination. Based on Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's book (Kristof and WuDunn 2010), the nearly four-hour documentary visits six countries to explore six issues: gender-based violence in Sierra Leone, ... more

Story Money Impact: Funding Media for Social Change

New York; London: Routledge (2016), xiii, 256 pp.
"Today, social-issues storytellers are sharpening their craft, while funders with finite resources focus on reach, and strategic innovators bring more robust evaluation tools. Friesen illuminates the spark at the core of these three pursuits. Structured around stories from the front lines, Story Mon ... more

Video for Change

In: The Handbook of Development Communication and Social Change
Karin Gwinn Wilkins; Thomas Tufte; Rafael Obregón (eds.)
Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2014), pp. 453-470
"This chapter argues that in order to understand contemporary forms of video activism, we need to extend our analytical scope beyond the confinements of the strategic work of social movement actors. It offers a schematic map of the various fields and disciplines in which video for social change has ... more
"This working paper aims to synthesize current efforts to develop comparable evaluation methods for social issue documentary films. Authored by two researchers who have been jointly documenting the field’s transformation over the past five years, this paper offers a framework for planning and eval ... more

Video for Change: A Guide for Advocacy and Activism

Peter Gabriel (foreword)
London: Pluto Press;Witness (2005), 323 pp.
"This book is an invitation—an invitation to discover the potential of a simple video camera and the power it holds to spark social change. Every day, all around the world, activists draw upon video in creative, strategic ways and use the results to ensure that silent voices are heard and importan ... more

The Video Activist Handbook

London: Pluto Press (1997), xvi, 248 pp.