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OUR ABOUT FUNDS OUR BRITDOC p34 p06 FILMS p40

Helping good films be great

Engaging new HELLO partners GOOD PITCH p82 IMPACT Sharing our FIELD GUIDE learning p124 We are a nonprofit, founded in 2005, committed to enabling great Building new documentary films and connecting audiences them to audiences. Doing and measuring Based in London and New York, we work with filmmakers and partners globally, reaching IMPACT DOC audiences all over the world. AWARD ACADEMY p118 p94 In this book you can find out SOMETHING more about what we do and IMPACT REAL how it fits into our five DISTRIBUTION p102 interconnected strategic areas. p106 06 The Art of Impact. The Impact of Art. 07

“For many years, BRITDOC has spotted and supported the most urgent projects – OUR MISSION OUR DRIVING PRINCIPLE nurturing them with love, ensuring they make a difference. But gradually We befriend great filmmakers, Great documentaries enrich BRITDOC became more support great films, broker the lives of individuals. They than a fund. It is, by now, new partnerships, build have a unique ability to the forum for our most important conversations new business models, share engage and connect people, in nonfiction cinema.” knowledge and develop transform communities and Joshua Oppenheimer Director audiences globally. improve societies. “BRITDOC are experts in We aim to lead by example — That’s why we are dedicated collaboration, innovation and rapid prototyping.” innovate, share and be copied, to the Impact of Art, and the Cara Mertes and innovate again. Art of Impact. Ford Foundation “BRITDOC is on the leading edge of the curve. Working collaboratively, they work with filmmakers, distributors and innovators in the storytelling space. Their work is exciting, far reaching and unique!” Diana Barrett Fledgling Fund 08 The Art of Impact. The Impact of Art. 9

Documentary filmmaking has taken creative leaps and bounds over the past decade.

At BRITDOC, we value these films in and of themselves. The creation of a great IT IS A TIME new piece of work is transformational for the artist, and often for the collaborators OF WONDER both behind and in front of the camera too. And then there is the audience. AND ABUNDANCE What happens between a film and an audience FOR THE FORM THE IMPACT member is a private affair, often mysterious and hidden, impossible to photograph, capture or record. And yet it is this effect, the potential for a film to be transformational for the inner life of the audience, that is the magic that makes us proud of our addiction to nonfiction and determined to help more filmmakers find their voice OF ART and their audience. It has captured the attention of artists, fiction directors, photographers and writers, excited by the plasticity of form and the creativity that comes with the field’s Photo from The Possibilities independent spirit. Are Endless 10 The Art of Impact. The Impact of Art. 11

This has been the decade in which the power of film to change the world has become impossible to ignore.

Over these past 10 years, we’ve worked at becoming FILMS ARE experts in creating real impact around our films. We continue to add to best practice in this SIMPLY THE MOST area - sometimes working directly to produce and distribute big, new films POWERFUL WAY TO with a social purpose, other times helping filmmakers do it themselves all over the CONNECT ISSUES world, and always sharing THE ART what we have learnt through conferences, workshops and TO PEOPLE free online resources. Our films have inspired people to engage and to act. To see others differently and to behave differently. To give money. To change the way they invest money. To try to change law and influence policy. To question the status OF IMPACT quo. To care more about the world around them.

Through the hard work and commitment of thousands of dedicated individuals, we’ve seen it all: major artistic achievement, radical experimentation and innovation, and serious Indonesian premiere of The Look societal change. of Silence, Joshua Oppenheimer’s follow-up to The Act of Killing. 12 The Art of Impact. The Impact of Art. 13 MEET

JESS SEARCH BEADIE FINZI MAXYNE FRANKLIN SANDRA WHIPHAM THE TEAM London London New York London Chief Executive Foundation Director Foundation Director Foundation Director [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

“For me, BRITDOC Jess is the Chief Executive Having worked in Maxyne is one of the founding Sandra, who joined LONDON NEW YORK of BRITDOC. Before that, documentary for the past Directors of BRITDOC and BRITDOC as its fourth is synonymous she was a Commissioning 20 years, Beadie is in heaven shares responsibility for Director in January 2012, with passion, BRITDOC Foundation & BRITDOC Inc Editor at Channel 4. in her role at BRITDOC – overseeing the film funding works across all areas of BRITDOC Charitable Trust 45 Main Street befriending independent programmes. She also sits on the Foundation’s work with commitment, 50 Frith Street Suite 547, Brooklyn She is also a board member filmmakers globally, funding the selection committee for special responsibility for Doc energy, humour, London New York of the think tank IPPR and great films, brokering new the Good Pitch events and Academy and the Bertha W1D 4SQ 11201-1099 has an MBA from Cass partnerships and sharing oversees the annual BRITDOC BRITDOC Connect Fund. vision, rigour +44 (0)207 734 6558 Business School. Jess knowledge. Impact Awards; celebrating and vodka-based moderates for IDFA, the the films that have made the Previously, Sandra cocktails.” Skoll World Forum, the Trust In addition to executive greatest impact on society. established London Fields ONLINE Women conference and producing a number of films, Pictures Ltd where she Tabitha Jackson BRITDOC’s Good Pitch. Beadie is responsible for the For BRITDOC, Maxyne produced and executive Sundance Institute Web britdoc.org Good Pitch programme and has been lucky enough to produced a range of Email [email protected] helps incubate new projects executive produce a number documentary film and Twitter @britdoc like the Impact Field Guide of award-winning films television including multi and the Impact Award. including Virunga, The award-winning Enemies Possibilities are Endless, of the People (dir. Thet Beadie is also an experienced The Square, Pussy Riot, Hell Sambath/Rob Lemkin). From filmmaker. Titles includeOnly & Back Again, Ping Pong 2007-9 Sandra was Editor at When I Dance, theatrically and Afghan Star. Prior to More 4, and commissioned released in the UK and US. BRITDOC, Maxyne was the True Stories international She produced Unknown White working at Channel 4 TV on documentary strand. Male in 2005, which played at the new talent strand 3 Minute Sundance Film Festival and Wonders and co-curating the was Oscar shortlisted.​ experimental Outside Zone. 14 The Art of Impact. The Impact of Art. 15

ELISE McCAVE OLIVER RIVERS NICOLE VAN SCHAIK STÉPHANIE LITTLE LUKE W MOODY KAREN FAIRHOLM New York London London London London London

Deputy director Finance Director European Outreach Director Head of Production Film & Distribution Manager Financial Controller [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Elise has responsibility for Oliver is BRITDOC’s Finance Nicole strategises with Stéph plans and delivers Luke joined BRITDOC’s team Karen oversees the day-to- marketing, communications Director, working for the filmmakers and focuses on BRITDOC’s event programme. in 2010. He currently performs day activities of BRITDOC’s and design, collaborating with company one day a week. building new and exciting This includes hub Good Pitch a dual role. As Film Manager financial affairs, ensuring that our web and design teams The rest of the time he works relationships with foundations, events, Impact Labs, and he works across the film funds, BRITDOC’s four companies across the BRITDOC websites in the same capacity for three philanthropists, brands and BRITDOC’s Impact Award. She filmmaker outreach and as a are organised, efficient and and print material, to produce early-stage businesses (a NGOs for Good Pitch Europe, now also manages the Good reviewer on other schemes. produce accurate financials. beautiful, functional tools drinks brand, an online mobile and BRITDOC as a whole. She Pitch2 global programme, As Head of Distribution he and content. advertising business and, a also assists on the US and planning its rollout worldwide, has coordinated UK impact Having been part of the chain of cafés in Milan and global Good Pitch events. and supporting potential and distribution of Academy finance world for 10 years, Elise also has oversight London). current Good Pitch2 hosts. Award-nominated Dirty Wars Karen took a year to travel, on the Impact Award and Over the past year Nicole has and CITIZENFOUR. He also returning determined to fulfil possibly our best live project: He has an MBA from London been working on the BRITDOC Previously, she was Director managed production of related a dream of working with Good Pitch, which she has Business School, but he did Circle Fund – our initiative and Programmer of Northern artist commissions including filmmakers. And then along worked on since the very his first degree at the Royal supported by a group of Lights Film Festival based in James Bridle’s Drone Shadows came BRITDOC. first event in Oxford in 2008. College of Music, and music individual funders. the North East of England. and Trevor Paglen’s Code She is currently also enjoying remains his great passion. In his The festival included Names of the Surveillance State discussing all BRITDOC’s work not very extensive spare time Before joining the Foundation, Northern European feature, and Circles. He also leads on in presentations, and working he can usually be found at the Nicole worked as a television documentary, short film curation and development with filmmakers at labs. Wigmore Hall. journalist for broadcasters and education programmes of BRITDOC’s new digital including RTL News and Al and industry summit. Before distribution initiative, Something She’s never happier than Jazeera. She finished her MA moving to BRITDOC, Stéph Real. when assembling a playlist for in International Journalism in was the Events Executive at the the documentary community Cardiff in 2008 and has lived UK Film Council, with special Luke is from somewhere to work, rest and play to. in the Netherlands, USA, responsibility for the UK pavilion between Barnsley and South Africa and Wales. at the Cannes Film Festival. Rotherham. 16 The Art of Impact. The Impact of Art. 17

FREELANCE JAMES FRANKLIN SANDI DUBOWSKI STU TILY CONSULTANTS BRENDA COUGHLIN PATRICIA FINNERAN BRUNI BURRES Auckland & London New York Prague London New York New York TEAM Creative Director US Outreach Director Technical Director Consultant Good Pitch Consultant Consultant [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Brenda is co-founder of the Patricia is founder of Story For over 20 years, Bruni has James looks after the design Sandi has been the Outreach Stu looks after the tech for creative media group, Civic Matters; working at the worked at the intersection of and the websites of all the Director for Good Pitch the Foundation websites. Bakery. She produced Dirty intersection of storytelling arts and culture and human BRITDOC brands, starting with North America since 2009. He’s been working on internet Wars (2013), nominated for and social change. It creates rights as a festival director the first website back in 2006. He is also a busy filmmaker; development since the mid an Academy Award, and is collaborative and viable and curator, a media educator, the Director/Producer 90’s at some big (BBC, News Distribution Producer for projects with funders, creative producer and social James is also founder of the of Trembling Before G-d, International) and more CITIZENFOUR (2014). She corporations, nonprofits and media strategist. She is web-based film-marketing Producer of A Jihad for Love, recently smaller companies worked with BRITDOC on filmmakers that advance currently a Senior Consultant system Assemble.me and has and Co-producer of Budrus. and NGOs (Shooting developing our inaugural positive social impact. for Sundance Institute’s produced the design behind His award-winning work People, BRITDOC, Oxfam Impact Distribution Lab. Clients include Kering, Documentary Film Program, many of BRITDOC’s films. has screened at Sundance, International). She previously produced Hot Docs, Harmony Institute expanding and deepening its Berlin, Toronto and 200+ the 2009 (US) and 2010 (UK) and campaigns for Bully, international engagement. festivals, has aired on BBC, The People Speak television How To Survive A Plague, She is a mentor and partner PBS, ZDF-Arte, and been specials, executive produced The Revolutionary Optimists with the Greenhouse funded by 60+ foundations. by Matt Damon. She has been and strategy for the media Documentary Initiative for Sandi turns movies into an advisor for the Sundance platform Map Your World. MENA filmmakers, a consultant movements and launched Creative Producing Lab and She has previously held senior with Good Pitch and Chiledoc filmsthatchangetheworld.com a fellow of the Sundance positions at Sundance and a senior program advisor to engage people through Women Filmmaking Initiative. Institute Documentary Film for the Middle East Festival global events. He is directing With historian Howard Zinn, Program, AFI as Director Now. From 1991 to 2008 Bruni a new Sundance-funded she co-founded Voices of a of SILVERDOCS, and IFP was the director of the Human film about Amichai Lau- People’s History, which runs New York. She works with Rights Watch Film Festival. Lavie, a 21st century spiritual performing arts and education BRITDOC in support of Bruni continues to consult with innovator for our skeptical, programs in communities Good Pitch to serve the Open Society Foundations. secular, digital generation. across the United States. filmmakers and improve opportunities for the documentary community. 18 The Art of Impact. The Impact of Art. 19

The BRITDOC Directors BRITDOC are joined by an exceptional BRITDOC CHARITABLE BRITDOC INC FOUNDATION BOARD team across our boards. TRUSTEES BOARD

JOHN BATES TONY TABATZNIK DAN BROOKE MARK CRIDGE ANGELA SEAY STEPHAN CHAMBERS WILLIAM SIEGHART ALEX GRASHOW London London London London London London London New York

Chair of the Board Non-executive Board Member Non-executive Board Member Non-executive Board Member Chair of the Board Trustee Trustee Board Member

John is Adjunct Professor of Tony is an entrepreneur and Dan is Chief Marketing Mark is a digital As chair of the BRITDOC Stephan is Director of William is a philanthropist, Alex is a business adaptation Entrepreneurship at London committed philanthropist. & Communications Officer communications expert who Charitable Trust, Angela International Strategy at entrepreneur, publisher and expert, speaker, author, Business School where he has He is a member of BRITDOC at Channel 4. He’s been with founded the UK’s first digital brings years of experience the Saïd Business School the founder of the Forward moderator and confidential been teaching and developing and is the visionary behind the channel since January advertising agency, Glue in nonprofits in Europe and in Oxford, Chairman of Prizes for Poetry. He serves adviser. He is a Senior Adviser courses since 1985, whilst Bertha Foundation whose 2011, after an earlier stint from London. He originally studied North America, with a focus the Skoll Centre for Social as a trustee not only to the and a lead moderator for the starting up and running two mission is to create more 1998-2005 when he rose to architecture, where he learned on grant-making institutions Entrepreneurship and a Senior BRITDOC Charitable Trust, Clinton Global Initiative and technology businesses, a progressive and just societies Managing Director of Digital to shape and communicate and policy NGOs. She also Research Fellow at Lincoln but also to the Esmée the co-author of The Practice consultancy and a venture with work in three main areas: Channels. He also serves creative ideas. He is currently worked in policy development, College. He sits on Fairbairn Foundation, Free of Adaptive Leadership capital company. Media, Human Rights Law on the Board of the NFTS. a member of the Green Party strategic planning and the Advisory Board of Word Centre and Reprieve. (Harvard Business Press) and and Activist Training. National Executive. legislation in Princeton University Press Leadership in a Permanent the US Federal Government. and the University of the Crisis (HBR). He is the child of People. He spent 2014 as two public servants, a proud Special Advisor to the Skoll father and practicing artist. Global Threats Fund. 20 The Art of Impact. The Impact of Art. 21 OUR VALUES

INDEPENDENT SUPPORTIVE COLLABORATIVE EVOLVING SERIOUS JOYOUS We are free We don’t interfere We have seen We are We take We love what to choose who with the creative the greatest consciously documentaries we do and we we work with process, we support impact through and constantly seriously, but want to work with and how we do it. it. We are the friend collaboration. evolving – because not ourselves. people who feel This independence of the filmmaker As such, we share tomorrow needs the same way. means we always and the film always what we learn and new ideas. For us, uphold creative, comes first. create best practice problems are an journalistic and with our partners. opportunity for personal integrity. change. TO SEEK JOY IN THE SADDEST PLACES. TO PURSUE BEAUTY TO ITS LAIR. TO NEVER SIMPLIFY WHAT IS COMPLICATED OR COMPLICATE WHAT IS SIMPLE. TO RESPECT STRENGTH, NEVER POWER. ABOVE ALL, TO WATCH. TO TRY AND UNDERSTAND. TO ARUNDHATI ROY NEVER LOOK AWAY. AND NEVER, WRITER NEVER TO FORGET. 24 The Art of Impact. The Impact of Art. 25

SUPPORTERS:

CONVERGENCE SUPPORTERS FUND DOBKIN FAMILY FOUNDATION

We can only do what we do… because of the organisations and JOAN & individuals who fund our work. LEWIS PLATT Thank you everyone.

RODDICK WYNCOTE MAJOR PARTNERS: FOUNDATION FOUNDATION

INDIVIDUAL FOUNDING PARTNER: SUPPORTERS:

LEKHA ANONYMOUS SINGH DONORS 26 The Art of Impact. The Impact of Art. 27

“The Bertha-BRITDOC Our friends at Bertha Since 2011 Bertha have invested in team helped us not Foundation believe BRITDOC’s future and joined our Board only financially, but that alliances between of Directors. Together we launched also gave excellent activists, lawyers and a number of initiatives including two creative advice, and storytellers can be very distinctive ongoing film funds: was emotionally powerful. And we agree. and morally highly THE BERTHA BRITDOC DOCUMENTARY campaigns that have the supportive. Their “Bertha Foundation JOURNALISM FUND ability to achieve real The first fund for filmmakers change on a local, regional BERTHA professionality and supports passionate or global level. £250,0000 from around the world empathy helped individuals, strong working at the intersection a year is available in grants. us to keep on until leadership and activism of film and investigative journalism. For films that We are overwhelmed the end. Thank you to create social change. break the important stories by the commitment and so much!” The Foundation believes of our time, expose injustice, success of the filmmakers bring attention to unreported we’ve had the pleasure of working with – from Eszter Hajdú in the importance of issues and, bring cameras films with international Judgment in Hungary documentary film and its into regions previously unseen. £250,000 a year resonance like No Fire Zone, ability to have a positive is available as a mixture of CITIZENFOUR and Virunga, social impact. We are grants and loans. to films with significant AND US local resonance like Miners proud to be partnering Shot Down, 17 Not Required with BRITDOC and THE BERTHA BRITDOC Indians and Judgment in CONNECT FUND Hungary. All the films we collaborating on these The first outreach and have supported so far are two fantastic initiatives.” engagement fund in Europe, listed later in this book. the Bertha BRITDOC Rebecca Lichtenfeld Connect Fund is open Thanks to Bertha for Director of Social Impact, to filmmakers from their continuing support. Bertha Philanthropies around the world with We look forward to doing smart, strategic outreach even more together. 28 The Art of Impact. The Impact of Art. 29

Ford Foundation | JustFilms has been We’re excited to work supporting BRITDOC since 2011. With with a sophisticated FORD Ford’s support we have built Good Pitch organisation with global into our biggest global programme, expertise and presence connecting the best documentary to create even more filmmakers with NGOs, foundations, powerful opportunities philanthropists, brands and media and alliances for the around leading social issues. world’s best filmmakers and their stakeholders. Ford Foundation has innovative strategies for invested in the transformative impact and distribution, FOUNDATION power of documentary for and encouraging the further “BRITDOC is an invaluable over 30 years, and their professionalisation of the international partner JustFilms initiative takes independent film community. that commitment further. in an independent In addition to the series of documentary field As part of JustFilms’ alliance live events in cities around of international partner the world, the Good Pitch which is expanding and organisations, we have programme includes experiencing a paradigm been able to use Good workshops for filmmakers Pitch to strengthen global and Impact Producers, and shift in terms of creativity, documentary networks, now a comprehensive Impact funding, technology, drawing new resources and Field Guide sharing best AND US new partners into a rapidly practice, which is available reach, and impact.” expanding field, identifying for free online. Cara Mertes Director, JustFilms Ford Foundation 30 The Art of Impact. The Impact of Art. 31

Channel 4 Channel 4’s partnership is very “At Channel 4 we are delighted is BRITDOC’s meaningful to the Foundation. We share to be the founding sponsor of founding partner the same core belief in the importance BRITDOC. Our commitment is to and three of our of public service media to British helping create a space where untried directors are culture, democracy and society. Equally filmmakers or passionate auteurs ex-Channel 4 importantly, we share a love of innovation, with something important to say can commissioning disruption and a sense of humour. bring their work and have it nurtured staff. It was and supported, both with money CHANNEL 4 Channel 4’s belief The Channel retains a first- and expertise. look deal to broadcast any in our mission and of the Foundation-funded financial backing films that can work for their The Foundation’s success so far is that got BRITDOC audiences. They view the testament to the public appetite for films once completed and started in 2005. through this mechanism award-winning films with something many of our films such as important to say, from Ping Pong The End of the Line, Chosen, to , Afghan Star, Hell and Back One Mile Away The Possibilities Again and CITIZENFOUR are Endless to CITIZENFOUR, have been shown on and we look forward to continuing AND US Channel 4, Film4 or More4 and will continue to do so. our support for its work.”

David Abraham Chief Executive, Channel 4 32 The Art of Impact. The Impact of Art. 33 EVERYTHING IS ART. EVERYTHING

AI WEIWEI ARTIST IS POLITICS. OUR FUNDS 36 The Art of Impact. The Impact of Art. 37

“The stamp of support from an organization like BRITDOC sent an important signal to the IT ALL broader film community that this was a story that needed to be told.” Great films are at the centre of everything we do. We support talented people Jessica Devaney STARTS to create the very best films possible. Producer, Speed Sisters BRITDOC’s Foundation Directors are “Simply put, the film would not have happened without highly experienced, hands-on Executive the financial and editorial Producers. We love collaborating with contribution and leadership that BRITDOC provided.” WITH A independent filmmakers who have cinematic ambition, providing personal Marc Silver, Director, mentorship and editorial support as well Who Is Dayani Crystal? as direct funding for every stage of a “We really needed some film’s life, from development through outside expertise to help guide us through a GREAT to production and outreach. particularly difficult and dangerous moment in Since 2005, the scope of We continue to work to production. We remain our funding has changed make new funding streams deeply grateful to the whole dramatically. From available to the documentary team at BRITDOC for all supporting British-only community, managing the words of wisdom and filmmakers in our first years film funds for a range of encouragement.” FILM to becoming a truly global organisations and individuals. film funder, we now have This started with funding Orlando von Einsiedel grantees from 47 countries from broadcaster Channel Director, Virunga including Zimbabwe, 4 Television and has since Hungary, India, Denmark, UK, included lifestyle brand “BRITDOC were the first China and the USA. This has PUMA, nonprofits including funders to come on board enabled us to support some Oak Foundation and Arcus the project and without their of the most important voices Foundation, and individual endless energy, enthusiasm and urgent stories of the past philanthropists and family and insight, this film would decade. foundations, such as our never have been made. ongoing partnership with They are brilliant.” Bertha Foundation. Hugh & Anson Hartford Director & Producer, Ping Pong

Filming of Virunga 38 The Art of Impact. The Impact of Art. 39

In response to the growing demand “I invest in documentary by individual philanthropists and family because stories are what foundations, we’ve set up the Circle Fund. connect us. They make up The Circle Fund is a new funders group our lives and are what we bonded by a passion for enabling the very leave behind. The Circle best documentary film and committed to Fund is an opportunity helping secure a diverse and independent to come together with a future for media. small group of inspiring individuals to discuss the Constituted with a Charitable Recent films supported by potential of documentary Trust in the UK and a 501c3 the Circle Fund include Edward film, while funding some in the US, we are able to Lovelace and James Hall’s The receive tax efficient grants Possibilities are Endless, Laura of the best projects to support single films in Poitras’ CITIZENFOUR and the around.” specific subject areas, right upcoming film from Johan through to multi-year slate Grimonprez on the global arms funding across a broad range trade, The Shadow World. Cristina Ljungberg of issues. Our members Circle Fund Founder Member can have the confidence If you’re interested in that the BRITDOC team will enabling independent, comprehensively review and ambitious filmmaking then mentor film projects from do get in touch. We can help beginning to end. you support this community, Still from The with confidence. Possibilities are Endless 40 The Art of Impact. The Impact of Art. 41

A SAMPLER OF WORK WE HAVE SUPPORTED SINCE 2005 OUR FILMS 42 The Art of Impact. The Impact of Art. 43

MUMBAI GLOBAL PEACE GULF LUCERNE SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL FILM FESTIVAL FILM FESTIVAL FILM FESTIVAL FILM FESTIVAL

17 NOT REQUIRED INDIANS 3½ MINUTES

Director In April 2010, 17 Indian In following the families In February 2013, the 17 Director Marc Silver On Black Friday 2012, Marc Silver has constructed 3.5 Minutes portrays Davis’s Soniya Kirpalani migrant workers were struggling for justice, director Indians were reunited with Producers Minette Nelson four middle-class African a seamless, riveting film murder and its aftermath Completed 2014 sentenced to death for the Soniya Kirpalani reveals the their families. & Carolyn Hepburn American law-abiding exploring the danger and as anything but generic. In murder of one man in the tragic plight of Indian migrants Completed 2015 teenagers stopped at a subjectivity of Florida’s Stand seeing each other as human UAE. But for the fact that overseas. Tracking the gas station to buy gum Your Ground self-defence beings can we challenge the family members pressured brothers of one of the accused marcsilver.net and cigarettes. One laws by weaving Dunn’s violent outcomes from racial both the Indian and UAE as they collect proof of his of them, Jordan Davis, trial with a chorus of citizen bias and disparate cultures governments for a fair trial, innocence, we are lead into argued with Michael Dunn, and pundit opinions; and colliding? the men would have ended an unseen world of migrant a white man parked beside with Jordan Davis’ parents’ their lives as statistics for abuse. Through the trial, the them, over the volume of wrenching experiences in the death penalty. Embassy’s defence team music playing in their car. and out of the courtroom. and human rights lawyers The altercation turned to reveal how Indian politics tragedy when Dunn fired 10 While Jordan Davis, Trayvon and corruption obstruct the bullets at the unarmed boys, Martin, and Michael Brown’s possibility of a fair trial for killing Davis almost instantly. stories join a wretched, Indian migrant workers. enduring cycle in the American social narrative, 44 The Art of Impact. The Impact of Art. 45

WINNER WINNER WINNER NOMINEE SUNDANCE HOTDOCS BERLIN WINNER SUNDANCE GRIERSON AWARD PRIX ITALIA IDA AWARDS FILM FESTIVAL AWARDS FILM FESTIVAL FILM FESTIVAL FILM FESTIVAL GRIERSON AWARDS

AFGHAN STAR THE BENGALI DETECTIVE

Directors/Producer After 30 years of war Afghan Star follows the Director Philip Cox Mixing dance and song with such are the day-to-day Havana Marking and Taliban rule, pop moving stories of four Producers the harsh lives of clients, investigations of overweight, Completed 2009 culture has returned to young contestants looking Giovanna Stopponi, Philip Cox, this originally-styled feature dance obsessed Rajesh Ji. Afghanistan. Millions are for a new life. As the Himesh Kar & Anne Sundberg provides an entertaining yet Each client walks through the afghanstardocumentary.com watching Afghan Star - a drama of the elimination Completed 2011 poignant look at modern door carrying a secret fear Twitter @AfghanStar Pop Idol-style TV series in rounds unfold the film India and its diasporas or suspicion, and all need which people from across explores issues of gender, thebengalidetective.com through the prism of crime. Rajesh’s help. the country compete for a democracy, free press Facebook What happens when a cash prize and record deal. and the power of music. /thebengalidetective population loses trust in its This film follows the The viewers vote for their Their journeys take a police and authorities? intrepid detective and his favourite singers by mobile terrifying turn as one motley band of helpers phone and for many this is young woman dances on A new phenomena is on four selected raids and their first encounter with stage, threatening her own happening in India — the investigations, both in democracy. safety and the future of the rise of the private detective. Kolkata and London. show itself. In Afghanistan Poisonings, adultery, to sing and dance is to risk fraud, bridal purity and your life. the occasional murder — 46 The Art of Impact. The Impact of Art. 47

WINNER NOMINEE NOMINEE WINNER NEW YORK ACADEMY AWARDS BAFTA GOTHAM AWARDS CRITICS CIRCLE

THE BORNEO CASE CITIZENFOUR

A modern day thriller into offshore accounts and intimidation, kidnapping Director Laura Poitras A real-life thriller, giving In January 2013, Laura with her. The resulting film building upon unique global property portfolios. and murder finally ends up Producers Mathilde Bonnefoy, audiences unprecedented Poitras started receiving is history unfolding before material filmed over 25 It begins when a small at the heart of the financial Dirk Wilutzky & Laura Poitras access to Edward Snowden anonymous encrypted emails our eyes. CITIZENFOUR not years telling the epic tale group of activists get their centre of the world. Completed 2014 in Hong Kong, as he hands from “CITIZENFOUR,” who only shows you the dangers of how the rainforest was hands upon leaked secret over classified documents claimed to have evidence of governmental surveillance transformed from the home documents from a well- citizenfourfilm.com providing evidence of mass of illegal covert surveillance – it makes you feel them. of the last nomads into a placed insider that offer Twitter @citizenfour indiscriminate and illegal programs run by the NSA After seeing the film, you land stripped of its natural concrete proof of the invasions of privacy by in collaboration with other will never think the same Directors/Producers resources. workings of the money trail. the NSA and GCHQ. intelligence agencies way about your phone, email, Erik Pauser & Dylan Williams worldwide. Five months credit card, web browser, In Production The film reveals how billions As their investigation later, she and reporters or profile again. of dollars of illegal profits gathers pace, the group Glenn Greenwald and Ewen solicited by the Chief Minister soon find themselves on a MacAskill flew to Hong Kong of Sarawak, the Malaysian collision course with some for the first of many meetings part of Borneo, were money- of the most powerful timber with the man who turned laundered with the assistance mafia organisations in the out to be Edward Snowden. of the largest global banks world. A journey filled with Laura brought her camera 48 The Art of Impact. The Impact of Art. 49

NOMINEE WINNER SXSW LONDON GOTHAM AWARDS EMMY AWARDS FILM FESTIVAL FILM FESTIVAL

COLD CASE THE CRASH REEL HAMMARSKJÖLD

Director Mads Brügger On September 19, 1961 the With the 50-year anniversary After all, this could possibly Director Lucy Walker The dramatic story An escalating rivalry The Crash Reel seamlessly Producer Peter Engel Secretary General of the of Hammarskjöld’s death be the premeditated murder Producers Julian Cautherley of one unforgettable between Kevin and his combines twenty years of In Production UN, Dag Hammarskjöld, having passed, it has become of the chairman of the World & Lucy Walker athlete, Kevin Pearce; nemesis Shaun White in the stunning action footage lost his life in a plane evident that there is more Community. Completed 2013 one eye-popping sport, run-up to the 2010 Olympics with new specially-shot crash in the Rhodesian to the story. Much more. It snowboarding; and one leaves Shaun on top of verité footage and interviews bush. Several courts of goes beyond the common explosive issue, Traumatic the Olympic podium and as it follows US champion inquiry, both national and conspiracy theory; in fact Brain Injury. A comeback Kevin in a coma following snowboarder Kevin Pearce international, reached the there is not much theory story with a difference. a training accident in Park and exposes the irresistible same conclusion: it was about it. Bringing together City, Utah. Kevin’s tight-knit but potentially fatal appeal an accident pure and simple, a disturbing amount of Vermont family flies to his of extreme sports. and that was all there was tangible substance to side and helps him rebuild to it… the case, award-winning his life as a brain injury filmmaker Mads Brügger survivor. But when he insists (The Ambassador, The Red he wants to return to the Chapel) is bringing the sport he still loves, his investigation to the screen. family intervenes. 50 The Art of Impact. The Impact of Art. 51

NOMINEE WINNER WINNER NOMINEE WRITERS GUILD SUNDANCE CPH:DOX SUNDANCE HOTDOCS NOMINEE ACADEMY AWARDS OF AMERICA FILM FESTIVAL FILM FESTIVAL FILM FESTIVAL FILM FESTIVAL IDFA GRIERSON AWARDS

DIRTY WARS THE END OF THE LINE

Director Richard Rowley Journalist Jeremy Scahill Drawn into the stories and Dirty Wars leaves us with Director Rupert Murray If we do nothing, the world’s Based on the multi-award- The film investigates the Producers investigates the hidden lives of the people he meets, questions about freedom and Producers Claire Lewis oceans will be empty of fish winning book by Charles depletion of the world’s tuna Brenda Coughlin, Anthony world of America’s covert Scahill is forced to confront democracy, war and justice, & George Duffield within our lifetimes. This film Clover, who also consults stocks, the destruction of Arnove & Jeremy Scahill wars, from Afghanistan to the painful consequences of in the US and beyond. Completed 2009 is a searing investigation of on the film, this is the fishing communities, Completed 2013 Yemen, Somalia, and beyond. a war spinning out of control, how it happened, who is to second feature for director the dire warnings of What begins as a report on as well as his own role as endoftheline.com blame and what can be done Rupert Murray following his scientists that have dirtywars.org a deadly US night raid in a a journalist. In a gripping facebook /endofthelinemovie about it. acclaimed debut Unknown remained largely unheard Facebook /DirtyWars remote corner of Afghanistan journey to remote corners of twitter @theendoftheline White Male. With Clover’s and the small minority who Twitter @DirtyWars quickly turns into a global the globe, we see first-hand rigorous journalism and are struggling to establish investigation of the secretive the results of wars fought Murray’s visual style The End sustainable fishing. and powerful Joint Special in secret and largely by of the Line brings the story Operations Command. drones, and get a behind-the- of overfishing to the masses. scenes look at a high-stakes investigation. 52 The Art of Impact. The Impact of Art. 53

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FATAL ASSISTANCE HELL & BACK AGAIN

Director Raoul Peck A two-year journey the international community’s Director Danfung Dennis Director Danfung Dennis and pain, to reconcile his Producer Rémi Grellety inside the challenging, post-disaster idealism. Producer Mike Lerner tells the intensely personal experiences of war with his Completed 2013 contradictory, and colossal Completed 2011 story of Sergeant Harris attempts to lead a normal rebuilding efforts in post- The film dives headlong and Marine battalion Echo life back home with his Facebook /FatalAssistance earthquake Haiti, a disaster into the complexity of the hellandbackagain.com Company from the start of loving wife. which left an estimated reconstruction process and Facebook the 2009 tour of Afghanistan quarter of a million people the practice and impact of /HellandBackAgainTheMovie to their return to the USA. Hell and Back Again is dead and more than a worldwide humanitarian Twitter @hellnbackagain a study of bravery and loss, million temporarily or and development aid, We follow Harris as he of friends and family struggling permanently homeless. revealing the disturbing returns home having been to support their returning extent of failure and the seriously wounded; as he warriors. Through its provocative disclosure that much of struggles to overcome and radical approach Fatal the money pledged to Haiti his injuries, to fight off the Assistance, by Haitian born was either never disbursed addictive nature of his filmmaker Raoul Peck, offers or was not applied to the medication and, while suffering a devastating indictment of reconstruction efforts. severe mental flashbacks 54 The Art of Impact. The Impact of Art. 55

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HOW IS YOUR FISH TODAY? JUDGMENT IN HUNGARY

Director Xiaolu Guo Filmmaker and author Having murdered his lover Director Eszter Hajdú In 2008 and 2009, Charged with murder on an Producer Iris Maor Xiaolu’s debut feature in a fit of passion he starts Producer Sándor Mester a group of Hungarian right- ethnic basis the state took Completed 2007 bleeds documentary and a lonely escape across the Completed 2013 wing extremists committed the men to court. The historic fiction in a tale about a country towards his land of a series of attacks on random trial lasted two and half years, young man in Southern wonder, a snowy village at Facebook members of the Roma from March 2011 to August China. the northern border. /JudgmentinHungary community. Six people were 2013. Director Eszter Hajdú killed, including a five-year- was in the claustrophobic Sitting at his desk in Beijing, old, and another five were courtroom for all 167 days a scriptwriter is writing injured. and Judgment in Hungary that same man’s story. It provides a rare insight into is through his characters race crimes in Europe. With that his life gains its weight, the widespread anti-Roma meaning and freedom. sentiment across Hungarian society and a highly irritable judge, the outcome is never clear right up until the verdict. 56 The Art of Impact. The Impact of Art. 57

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THE LOOK OF SILENCE MOVING TO MARS

Director Joshua Through filming with The youngest brother and We see Adi as he confronts Director Mat Whitecross Following two Karen refugee their camp lives when a Oppenheimer the perpetrators of the the film’s key figure Adi is the men responsible for Producer Karen Katz families from Burma, Moving resettlement scheme offers Producer Signe Byrge Indonesian genocide in determined to break the his brother’s murder – Completed 2009 to Mars tracks them over them the chance of a new Sørensen The Act of Killing, Joshua spell of silence and fear something unimaginable the course of a year that beginning. But their new Completed 2014 Oppenheimer’s companion under which the survivors in a country where killers will change their lives home in Sheffield will be piece follows a family of live. A village optometrist, remain in power. completely. different to anything they’ve thelookofsilence.com survivors as they discover he travels the roads with his ever known. Facebook /TheLookofSilence how their son was murdered vision testing equipment. Forced from their homeland and the identity of the men In conducting eye exams he by the repressive military The film depicts their moving who killed him. quizzes patients about their junta, the families have lived and often humorous struggles memories of a violent era in a Thai refugee camp for as they come to terms with most would like to forget. almost fifteen years. In his 21st century Britain whilst first feature as a solo director, simultaneously examining Mat Whitecross (co-director their difficult pasts. with Michael Winterbottom of The Road to Guantanamo) gives us a glimpse into 58 The Art of Impact. The Impact of Art. 59

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NO FIRE ZONE ONE MILE AWAY

Director Callum Macrae Callum Macrae’s harrowing Through powerful personal With direct evidence of war Director Penny Woolcock Following on from her The film traces the first Recruiting more supporters Producer Zoe Sale film tells the story of the stories, eyewitness testimony crimes, summary execution, Producer James Purnell hip hop musical 1 Day, meeting between Shabba from both gangs, Shabba Completed 2013 final 138 days of the 26- and video evidence this film torture and sexual violence Completed 2012 acclaimed filmmaker Penny and Dylan Duffus, the lead and Dylan get advice from year Sri Lankan civil war; shows how thousands of recorded by both victims Woolcock was invited back actor in 1 Day and opposing people as diverse as Jonathan nofirezone.org a brutal offensive which civilians were told to gather and perpetrators on mobile to Birmingham by Shabba, gang affiliate, through their Powell who oversaw the Twitter @nofirezonemovie saw between 40,000 in what the government phones and small cameras, a gang affiliate, to chart the painstaking journey over Good Friday Agreement as and 70,000 civilians die. promised would be a no this is not just a film of record attempts by two warring two years to engage their part of the Northern Ireland fire zone and were then but also a call to action. gangs to bring peace to respective gangs in a peace process. And as systematically shelled and their neighbourhoods. different way of life. riots erupt in the city in the deliberately denied adequate summer of 2011 there are food and medicines. surprising consequences for the neighbouring gangs. 60 The Art of Impact. The Impact of Art. 61

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PING PONG THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS

Director Hugh Hartford Eight players with 703 years British players Terry, 81, who Directors Edward Lovelace When one man’s world is The Possibilities are Endless Filmmaking duo D.A.R.Y.L. Producer Anson Hartford between them compete in has been given a week to live, & James Hall shattered by a devastating is based on the experiences spent months recording Completed 2012 the Over 80 World Table and Les, 91, a weightlifter and Producers stroke, he fights back of musician Edwyn Collins Edwyn during his recovery. Tennis Championships in poet, are going for the gold. Lucas Ochoa, Julia from the brink of death to who suffered a devastating Using these audio tapes as pingpongfilm.co.uk China’s Inner Mongolia. The Inge, 89, from Germany, has Nottingham & Thomas Benski discover that life and love stroke in 2005. Left unable the backbone, this visually Facebook /pingpongfilm Hartford brothers take us used table tennis to paddle Completed 2014 are greater than he could to walk or speak, any hope inventive film is the story into the extraordinary world her way out of dementia. And have ever imagined. of recovery seemed unlikely. of his journey back. of veteran sports. Texan Lisa, 85, is playing for thepossibilities.co.uk Yet in 2010, against all odds, the first time. Facebook /edwynfilm he released the album Losing Ping Pong is about more than Twitter @EdwynFilm Sleep to huge critical acclaim. table tennis. It’s a sports film about family relationships, illness and old age. A wonderfully unusual story of hope, regret, friendship, ambition, love — and sheer human tenacity in the face of mortality. 62 The Art of Impact. The Impact of Art. 63

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PUSSY RIOT: A PUNK PRAYER SELF MADE

Three young women facing arrested, Nadia, Masha and with band members, their Director Gillian Wearing If you were to play a part Hundreds of people Self Made is Turner seven years in a Russian Katia were accused of religious families and the defence Producer Lisa Marie Russo in a film, would you be responded to this advert Prize-winner Gillian prison for a satirical hatred. Here we understand team, and exclusive footage Completed 2011 yourself or a fictional when it was placed in local Wearing’s debut feature performance in a Moscow the personal motives and of the trial, it highlights the character? and national newspapers, and as the film progresses cathedral. But who is really on courage of the women behind forces that transformed these selfmade.org.uk online and in job centres the participants use real life trial in a case that has gripped the balaclavas and expose women from playful political around London and experiences to bring their Directors Mike Lerner the nation and the world the state of Russian justice activists to modern-day Newcastle. Seven of them characters to life, ultimately & Maxim Pozdorovkin beyond, three young artists or through the court’s final icons. were selected to attend starring in their own mini- Producer Mike Lerner the society they live in? verdict. method-acting workshops film. In an environment that Completed 2013 to explore their fantasy allows for the unexpected, In early 2012, members of the The film tells the compelling selves. revelation is key. Facebook Pussy Riot collective donned story of how a group /PussyRiotTheDocumentary their colourful trademark of young, feminist punk balaclavas and participated rockers captured the world’s in a 40-second ‘punk prayer attention by protesting protest’ on the altar of against Putin’s Russia. Moscow’s cathedral. Once Through first-hand interviews 64 The Art of Impact. The Impact of Art. 65

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SPEED SISTERS STEAL THIS FILM II

Director Amber Fares Despite restrictions on Brought together by a Both intimate and action- Director/Producer Professor and activist The team behind the film, Producers Avi Goldstein movement, a motor racing common desire to live life filled,Speed Sisters captures Jamie King Jamie King has become or the League of Noble & Jessica Devaney scene has emerged in the on their own terms, five the drive to defy all odds, Completed 2007 a figurehead for the Peers as they are known, Completed 2014 West Bank. The races offer determined women have leaving in its trail shattered opposition in the war intended the film as a a release from the pressures joined the ranks of dozens stereotypes about gender against file sharing. rallying call to ‘bring new speedsisters.tv and uncertainties of life of male drivers — competing and the Arab world. Steal This Film II explains people into the leagues of Facebook under military occupation. against each other for the how and why the war has those now prepared to think /speedsistersthefilm title, for bragging rights been lost and the huge creatively about the future Twitter @SpeedSisterFilm for their hometown, and to potential of new avenues of distribution, production prove that women can go of grassroots distribution, and creativity’. head on with the guys. file-sharing and piracy that fly in the face of In line with the film’s the old established polemical argument, Steal Hollywood models. This Film II is only available to view via free download. 66 The Art of Impact. The Impact of Art. 67

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THE SQUARE SWANDOWN

Director Jehane Noujaim A group of Egyptian Noujaim has captured on Director Andrew Kötting For four weeks throughout They drank 84 litres of water, They met all sorts en route, Producers Karim Amer revolutionaries battle leaders film a moment in history as Producer Lisa Marie Russo the months of September 2 bottles of whisky, from the Hoi Polloi to the & Jehane Noujaim and regimes, risking their it played out in real time. Completed 2012 and October 2011 filmmaker 4 bottles of wine and 24 cans Hoity Toity, from the very old Completed 2013 lives to build a new society and artist Andrew Kötting of special brew. They got to the very young, with the of conscience. The Square is an immersive and writer and filmmaker through 8 pairs of sunglasses, pedalo acting as a catalyst thesquarefilm.com experience, transporting Iain Sinclair pedalled a a handmade suit, a pair of and magnet. Swandown is Facebook /TheSquareFilm The Egyptian Revolution the viewer deeply into plastic swan over 160 walking boots and a camper the story of that epic journey. Twitter @thesquarefilm has been an ongoing the intense emotional miles from the seaside van. Andrew Kötting wore rollercoaster. Through the drama and personal stories in Hastings to Hackney the same clothes throughout. news, we only get a glimpse behind the news. It is the in East London. Iain Sinclair changed of the bloodiest battle, an inspirational story of young regularly. election, or a million-man people claiming their rights, march. Filming in Tahrir struggling through multiple Square from before the forces, in the fight fall of Mubarak in 2011 to to create a new reality. the deposition of a second president in 2013, Jehane 68 The Art of Impact. The Impact of Art. 69

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VIRUNGA WE ARE TOGETHER

Director Orlando von Einsiedel Combining investigative planet’s last remaining a new conflict threatens Director Paul Taylor Filmed over three years, Most of the children have Producer Joanna Natasegara journalism and stunning mountain gorillas. In the lives and stability of Producer Teddy Leifer this is the moving story of lost their parents to AIDS, Completed 2014 nature documentary, Virunga this wild but enchanted everyone and everything Completed 2006 a group of children who use but they are still children and is the incredible true story of environment, an embattled they’ve worked so hard music to overcome hardship teenagers. Bashful around virungamovie.com a group of brave individuals team of park rangers that to protect. and loss. It is the story of boys, squabbling with each Facebook /virungamovie risking their lives to build includes an ex-child soldier an orphanage, and of the other. But when they lift their Twitter @virungamovie a better future in a part and a Belgian prince, risk drive of these young singers voices in song, something of Africa the world has their lives to protect this to make it to London for a extraordinary happens. forgotten. A gripping exposé UNESCO World Heritage series of concerts. of the realities of life in the Site from armed rebels, With unforgettable Congo. poachers, and even This multi-award-winning youngsters, soaring corporations trying to wrest film is the debut feature music and a plot full of In the forested depths of control of Congo’s rich from director Paul Taylor surprises, We Are Together eastern Congo lies Virunga natural resources. and producer Teddy Leifer. is a stirring and uplifting National Park, one of the It follows 12-year-old Slindile, film demonstrating the most bio-diverse places When the newly formed M23 and her siblings and friends powerful effects of HIV on Earth and home to the rebel group declares war, at the Agape Orphanage. in South Africa. 70 The Art of Impact. The Impact of Art. 71

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WHO IS DAYANI CRISTAL? THE YES MEN ARE REVOLTING

Director Marc Silver An anonymous body in Who Is Dayani Cristal? Directors/Producers For 20 years, notorious letting greed run our world. Revealing the real people Producers Lucas Ochoa, the Arizona desert sparks shows how one life becomes Mike Bonnano, Andy activists the Yes Men In their third cinematic behind the ruses, at its heart Thomas Benski & Gael the beginning of a real-life testimony to the tragic Bichlbaum & Laura Nix (Mike Bonanno and Andy outing (after The Yes Men lies a hopeful message about García Bernal human drama. The search for results of the US war on Completed 2003 Bichlbaum) have staged and The Yes Men Fix The fighting for change. Completed 2013 identity leads us back across immigration. As the real-life outrageous and hilarious World), they are now well a continent to seek out the drama unfolds we see this theyesmenfixtheworld.com hoaxes to draw international into their 40s, and their mid- whoisdayanicristal.com people left behind and the John Doe, denied an identity Twitter @theyesmen attention to corporate crimes life crises are threatening to Facebook /whoisdayanicristal meaning of a mysterious at his point of death, become against humanity and the drive them out of activism Twitter @DayaniCristal tattoo. a living and breathing human environment. forever – even as they being with an important life prepare to take on the In an attempt to retrace his story. Armed with nothing but biggest challenge they’ve path and discover his story, thrift-store suits and a lack ever faced: climate change. director Marc Silver and of shame, these iconoclastic Gael Garcia Bernal embed revolutionaries lie their The Yes Men Are Revolting is themselves among migrant way into business events as much a character study as travellers on their own and government functions it is an entertaining depiction mission to cross the border. to expose the dangers of of their latest interventions. 72 The Art of Impact. The Impact of Art. 73

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A Whole Lott More Victor Buhler Channel 4, Bertha 2014 After Tiller Martha Shane Bertha & Lana Wilson

3.5 Minutes Marc Silver Bertha Chasing Ice Jeff Orlowski PUMA

A Haunting History Ilse & Femke van Velzen Bertha CITIZENFOUR Laura Poitras Bertha, Channel 4, Circle

The Borneo Case Dylan Williams & Erik Pauser Bertha Cocaine Prison Violeta Ayala Bertha

Disruption Pamela Yates Bertha, PUMA Cold Case Hammerskjold Mads Brügger Bertha

Freedom Summer Stanley Nelson Bertha Driving with Selvi Elisa Paloschi Bertha

The Ghosts in Liz Marshall Bertha Gideon’s Army Dawn Porter Bertha our Machine God Loves Uganda Roger Ross Williams Bertha In The Shadow of War Sophia Scott Bertha & Georgia Scott If I Can’t Dance Anonymous Cirlce (It’s Not My Revolution) Jungle Sisters Chloe Ruthven Bertha Incorruptibles Elizabeth C Vasarhelyi Bertha My Life My Lesson Asa Ekman Bertha Judgment in Hungary Eszter Hadjú Bertha Southern Rites Gillian Laub Bertha Little Heaven Lieven Courthouts Bertha The Chosen Ones Arman Yeritsan Bertha Marmato Mark Grieco Bertha The Homestretch Kirsten Kelly Bertha Miners Shot Down Rehad Desai Bertha The Opposition Hollie Fifer Bertha Please Remember Me Qhing Zhao Bertha The Shore Break Ryley Grunewald Bertha The Shadow World Johan Grimonprez Cirlce The Yes Men Andy Bichlbaum Channel 4, Bertha are Revolting Mike Bonanno The Hand That Feeds Rachel Lears Bertha & Laura Nix & Robin Blotnick

Trophy Saul Schwarz Bertha The Look of Silence Joshua Oppenheimer Bertha

Unearthed Jolynn Minnaar Bertha The Possibilities are Endless Edward Lovelace Bertha, PUMA, Circle & James Hall Young Lakota Marion Lipschutz Bertha & Rose Rosenblatt The Trial of Ratko Mladic Rob Miller Bertha & Henry Singer 74 The Art of Impact. The Impact of Art. 75

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This Changes Everything Avi Lewis PUMA No Fire Zone Callum Macrae Channel 4, Bertha

Untitled M.I.A Documentary Steve Loveridge Channel 4 Our School Mona Nicoara Bertha

Virunga Orlando Von Bertha, Arcus Project Wild Thing David Bond Channel 4, National Trust Einsiedel Pussy Riot — A Punk Prayer Maxim Pozdorovkin Bertha Untitled Project Andrea Arnold Channel 4 & Mike Lerner

Songs from the Building Koam Chanrasmey PUMA

State Builders Florence Martin- Bertha Kessler & Anne Poiret 2012 The Bolivian Case Violeta Ayala PUMA

The Law in These Parts Ra’anan Alexandrowicz Bertha 17 Not Required Indians Soniya Kirpalani Bertha The Lovers and the Despot Rob Cannan Channel 4 A Flickering Truth Pietra Brettkelly PUMA & Ross Adam

Amazing Azerbaijan Liz Mermin Bertha The Square Jehane Noujaim Bertha

Betel Begins the Conversation Bao Nguyen & PUMA Yasuni Nicolas Entel PUMA Duong Anh Xuan Town of Runners Jerry Rothwell Channel 4, Bertha Big Boys Gone Bananas! Fredrik Gertten Bertha

Carbon Crooks Tom Heinemann Bertha

Dirty Wars Richard Rowley Bertha 2011

Fireflies in the Abyss Chandrasekhar PUMA Reddy A Spell to Ward Off Ben Russell PUMA the Darkness & Ben RIvers Forgiveness Elizabeth Stopford Channel 4 Bidesia in Bambai Surabhi Sharma PUMA Generation Food Steve James PUMA & Raj Patel Black Out Eva Weber PUMA

How to Survive a Plague David France Bertha Brooklyn Castle Katie Dellamaggiore Bertha

Ida’s Diary August B. Hanssen PUMA Call Me Kuchu Malika Zouhali-Worrall Bertha & Katherine Fairfax Just a Band Wanuri Kahiu PUMA Wright & Anjali Nayar Crime After Crime Yoav Potash Bertha Making the Case: Beatrice Lorie Conway Bertha Mtetwa and the Rule of Law Fatal Assistance Raoul Peck PUMA

My Marriage, My Parents Tai-Jen Wu PUMA Femme a la Camera Karima Zoubir PUMA (Camera/Woman) 76 The Art of Impact. The Impact of Art. 77

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Gasland 2 Josh Fox Bertha Fin du Monde Ventura Durall PUMA

Give Up Tomorrow Michael Collins Bertha Hell & Back Again Danfung Dennis Channel 4

I, Afrikaner Annalet Steenkamp PUMA Kasai Claude Haffner PUMA

The Invisible War Kirby Dick Bertha Ping Pong Hugh Hartford PUMA, Channel 4

Logs of War Anjali Nayar PUMA Teenage Matt Wolf PUMA & Hawa Essuman The Bengali Detective Philip Cox Channel 4 Love Free or Die Macky Alston Bertha

My Atomic Aunt Kyoko Miyake PUMA

My Neighbourhood Julia Bacha & Bertha 2009 Rebekah Wingert-Jabi

One Mile Away Penny Woolcock Bertha, PUMA Guilty Pleasures Julie Moggan Channel 4

Poetry is an Island: Ida Does PUMA Mass E Bhat Richard York Channel 4 Derek Walcott & Hannan Majid

Rollaball Eddie Edwards PUMA My Kidnapper Mark Henderson Channel 4 & Kate Horne Shadow Girl Maria Teresa Larrain PUMA Self Made Gillian Wearing Channel 4 Shattered Pieces of Peace Nonhlanhla Dlamini PUMA

Speed Sisters Amber Fares PUMA

Swandown Andrew Kötting Channel 4 2008

The Crash Reel Lucy Walker PUMA Erasing David David Bond Channel 4, JRRT The E-Team Katy Chevigny PUMA & Ross Kauffman Fatherland Taghi Amirani Channel 4

The Interrupters Steve James Bertha Hackney Fandango Tom Hunter Channel 4, Arts Council

Who is Dayani Cristal? Marc Silver Channel 4, Bertha, Oak Journey to the Moon Kutlug Ataman Channel 4, Arts Council

Life After the Fall Kasim Abid Channel 4 2010 Shelter in Place Zed Nelson Channel 4 The Joneses Moby Longinotto Channel 4

Calvet Dominic Allan Channel 4 The Yes Men Mike Bonnano Channel 4 Fix the World Andy Bichlbaum Dragonslayer Tristan Patterson PUMA & Kurt Engfehr

Up in Smoke Adam Wakeling Channel 4 78 The Art of Impact. The Impact of Art. 79

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Sargy Mann Peter Mann Channel 4 2007 Small Town Boy Moby Longinotto Channel 4 Stone Pastures Donagh Coleman Channel 4 Afghan Star Havana Marking Channel 4 The Madman and the Cathedral James Rogan Channel 4 Alive Day Tom Eldridge Channel 4 The Word Was God Mark Boulos Channel 4 Backstory / Rear Projection Mark Lewis Channel 4, Arts Council Tres Pesos Ruth Cross Channel 4 H2NY Michael Landy Channel 4, Arts Council We Are Together Paul Taylor Channel 4 Here’s Johnny Adam Lavis, Kat Channel 4 Mansoor & Will Hood

Moving to Mars Mat Whitecross Channel 4 Reunion Monica Magyarosy Channel 4 2005 Semangat (Spirit) Adam Gutch Channel 4 & Chu-Li Shewring Black Gold Nick Francis Channel 4 Sounds Like Teen Spirit Jamie Jay Johnson Channel 4 & Marc Francis

Steal This Film II Jamie King Channel 4 How is Your Fish Today? Xiaolu Guo Channel 4

The End of the Line Rupert Murray Channel 4 Kimmie Hazel Chandler Channel 4

The Solitary Life of Cranes Eva Weber Channel 4 Specky Anne-Claire Pilley Channel 4

Talk to Me Mark Craig Channel 4

The Maze Donovan Wylie Channel 4 2006

Bukom: the Fighting Spirit George Amponsah Channel 4

Chosen Brian Woods Channel 4

Drum Room Miranda Pennell Channel 4

Every Other Friday Sam Hunt Channel 4

Farewell Song Arthur & Luther Jones Channel 4

Guca Milivoj Ilic Channel 4

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BRITDOC has run Good Pitch events in London, New York, Washington DC, San Francisco, Toronto, Chicago and Oslo.

But we can’t go everywhere.

That’s why we developed the We train these teams around Good Pitch2 programme, to the world to hold their own share our learning and build events to the same standard the capacity of other regional as our own - teams that pull organisations to host their off all of our tricks, and show own events. us new ones too.

Good Pitch2 events have Together, we are creating already been hosted in a truly interconnected global Johannesburg, Buenos Aires, ‘good’ network of filmmakers The Hague, Taipei, Mumbai and and changemakers ready Sydney and we are making for collaboration. plans for Nairobi and Jakarta. 92 The Art of Impact. The Impact of Art. 93

INDIA ARGENTINA TAIWAN AUSTRALIA WHERE IS THE NEXT GOOD PITCH SOPHY SIVARAMAN NATASHA PAMPIN RUBY CHEN IAN DARLING Chief Executive, Indian Head of Production Chief Operating Officer Executive Director, Shark Documentary Foundation Good Pitch2 Argentina CNEX Island Productions and Shark Island Institute, and Chair HAPPENING? “It is rare to witness social “Good Pitch2 Buenos Aires “Good Pitch2 in Taipei was of Good Pitch2 Australia Find out at change happening in front 2013 has proved to have a carefully planned and goodpitch.org of your eyes, but that is just an incredible impact on very well received event. “We hosted the first ever what happened at Good the communities the films As it was the first one Good Pitch2 in Australia at Pitch2 India in February 2014. reached out to. Each project CNEX was involved in, the Sydney Opera House on was able to take their film to we’ve learned a lot and October 8, 2014 and we aim Documentary in India has a new level, make valuable we are very sure it could work to hold similar events in both had almost no independent contacts and learn about well continuously, as more Sydney and Melbourne over funding, and has not been the concept of impact and more attention is now each of the next 5 years. seen as a driver of social production. directed to documentary change. Good Pitch2 films.” The timing was perfect demonstrated in one day that The Good Pitch model is a to have introduced the stories are powerful, and can key for the Latin American Good Pitch model to engage and motivate people. filmmaking community. Our Australia. Much of the It galvanised many present goal is to develop a training groundwork had been done in the room to donate on the strategy that reaches out to bring a deeper day, and to offer their skills to filmmakers across the understanding in Australia and expertise to do more. continent.” about the power of Good Pitch2 India was just documentary, and the a beginning.” importance of working to create powerful coalitions around important social issues. Already looking forward to our next event!” DOC ACADEMY 96 The Art of Impact. The Impact of Art. 97

BRITDOC believes that Made by BRITDOC, Doc • Increase students’ Academy is an online confidence to participate documentary film is one platform which provides in class of the most effective high quality, award-winning • Provide new and useful documentary film for use in tools for teachers tied tools in creating empathy the classroom. This site is to the English National and inspiring people to currently configured to work Curriculum engage as active citizens with the UK Curriculum but • Increase access to IN 2012-13 WE PILOTED the model is designed to be and grow interest in at a local, national and replicable in other territories documentary film amongst international level. To around the world. young people THE PROJECT IN 18 change the way we see Doc Academy is... The platform is averaging the world. • An online platform one new school sign up SCHOOLS. SINCE THEN devised by teachers a day, growing through • Accessible and available organic reach, word of to all mouth, from teacher WE HAVE TAKEN IT • Short clips of documentary to teacher. feature films, embedded into full schemes of work Films featured on the site NATIONWIDE. for English National are: Afghan Star, A Small Curriculum Objectives Act, Erasing David, Give for Key Stages 3-5 Up Tomorrow, InRealLife, • Easy to use, with no Monica & David, Moving to specialist teacher training Mars, My Kidnapper, One required Mile Away, Only When I Dance, Ping Pong, Sounds Doc Academy aims to… Like Teen Spirit, The Island • Engage students in lessons President, The Yes Men Fix • Spark debate on social the World, Thrilla in Manila, issues, increase cultural Project Nim and We Are awareness and challenge Together. stereotypes • Develop English and media literacy skills 98 The Art of Impact. The Impact of Art. 99

WHAT ARE WHAT DID TEACHERS SAYING: STUDENTS THINK:

Time is a real issue for teachers. It made it seem like you are part My hours have gone up 4 hours a of this world and you are watching 100% OF week, which means I can’t sit there this happen…this is part of life and all weekend looking at stuff, so it’s happening all around. Doc Academy has helped and kept it fresh for me. TEACHERS reported an increase in student engagement

The One Mile Away film really It made introducing topics more reached one boy. He was a vivid to us, made it easier for us to reluctant learner and found it grasp the idea...applying [analysis] difficult to speak and disliked directly rather than just watching 86% OF talking or answering questions in it and not internalising it, just class. As the gang topics of the film watching a film for no reason. touched on personal experiences from his life, he became more TEACHERS engaged and involved in the reported an lessons and really found his voice. improvement in key

English language skills It brings out active learning because you see that what you One student became learn in class doesn’t just affect what you do in class, you can use confident enough to it outside of the classroom… It’s talk about their own more interactive than other forms experience of being part of media, you don’t just use a piece of paper. of an immigrant family. She felt able to express her views as the class had become more open to accepting the value of immigrant communities, whereas before they were negative about TO FIND OUT MORE GO TO these groups. DOCACADEMY.ORG GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, LIKE ALL GOOD WORKS OF ART, ENABLE US TO SEE AND UNDERSTAND MORE OF THE WORLD THAN WE’D BE ABLE TO SIMPLY THROUGH OUR OWN SENSES. THEY GIVE US ALAIN DE BOTTON PHILOSOPHER AN EXTRA PAIR OF EYES. SOMETHING REAL 104 The Art of Impact.

Spreading our addiction to nonfiction. Two new, cult and classic doc recommendations every week. Available to watch on digital right now.

We put together “Just to say Something Real because we’re always being asked congrats on for recommendations for launching the well- documentaries to watch. Across all the digital platforms there named Something are thousands to flick through Real — its a very and we’d hate for people to end up picking a crap documentary handy reference when there are so many great for those of us ones out there to watch right now. We are platform-neutral, who’ve mainly giving you as many options as ended up watching possible and we don’t favour docs. Long may any particular distributor. it prosper.”

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WE HAVE SO FAR RECOMMENDED OVER 100 FILMS TO MORE THAN 70,000 PEOPLE A WEEK. JOIN THEM. SOMETHINGREAL.TODAY IMPACT DISTRIBUTION 108 The Art of Impact. The Impact of Art. 109 WELCOME TO IMPACT DISTRIBUTION

BRITDOC is an experimental This often leads to two They’re best thought of as separate teams, one for one thing. Not Impact and distributor. We have taken on profit and one nonprofit, Distribution but Impact the release of four films to date; each acting independently. Distribution. At best it is highly inefficient Ping Pong, One Mile Away, and at worst leads to outright Conflicts must be resolved, conflict, where each team and whether distribution or Dirty Wars and CITIZENFOUR. feels that the other is making impact takes priority should Each time we experiment their job harder, not easier. be the choice of the film team, and reflect their priorities and learn better ways to get We think there might be going into the process. documentaries to the audiences a better way. But this way of thinking that need to see them. Not only has distribution recognises that there are been shaken up by digital overlaps and synergies Our observation is that distribution and delivery and social media between impact and impact are often two separate spheres but there are now far more distribution. It seeks to get of activity. Each has a strategy devised from sophisticated approaches to the best of both worlds – the asking of two separate questions. impact strategy, leading to with each activity driving a new question. the success of the other. The Distribution question is How can we sell the film to as many people How can we optimise Here are highlights from as possible, making as much money as possible? both impact and commercial three of our releases... return by getting the film The Impact question is to the right people in the How can we get the film to the people who right ways? really need to see it, so that we can make London premiere of the most impact? Dirty Wars, November 2013 110 The Art of Impact. The Impact of Art. 111

IMPACT DISTRIBUTION PING PONG

Ping Pong follows pensioners from To reach young people, Partnerships are at the heart across the planet as they prepare teachers from our Doc of the Impact Distribution Academy project created model and we are proud to to compete in the over-80s World a free online curriculum guide. have worked with these Table Tennis Championships in The guide fits into Key stage organisations on Ping Pong. 3 English with ready made Inner Mongolia. clips for use in the classroom. English Table Tennis Association Ping Pong has been used in Ping! Ping Pong was BRITDOC’s first film release and was over 70 schools. Age UK nominated for a Screen Distribution Award in recognition Age Cymru of the innovative approach taken by our impact World Congress on Active Ageing distribution team. Age Action Alliance UK Forum on Active Ageing First we evaluated the film’s effect on audiences from IN TOTAL Departments of Health, Work the first screening, handing out a survey to audiences and Pensions of all ages. It confirmed that audiences over 65 liked the European Year of Active film (score of 8.7/10) and that the film made them feel WE REACHED Ageing and Solidarity Between ‘Inspired’, ‘Happy’, ‘Emotional’ and ‘Optimistic’. Most of all, Generations we learned that 64% could be interested in playing the game ExtraCare Residential Services after watching. The film played in cinemas, at festivals, on OVER 2000 Abbeyfield Care Homes and DVD and on Film4 but our goal to reach older audiences and Brunswick Residential Village inspire them to play ping pong needed a different approach. Channel 4 / Film4 “These determined “This experience CARE HOMES Picturehouse Cinemas In partnership with Age UK and Big Lottery, we created Cultural Olympiad/ whiff whaffers set has made us think a special screening pack containing a DVD, a guide to the Olympic 2012 Legacy an example to all of differently about game, bats and a mobile net that can be put on any table. AND DAY us in the run up to old people and how We held Ping Pong Care Campaign Awareness Events our fabulous London they must feel.” in Birmingham, Brighton and Hove, Cambridge, Exeter, CENTRES Olympics.” Sarah Leeds, Liverpool, Nottingham and Tees Valley. Designed Pupil, Patcham High School for care staff, health professionals, educational services Boris Johnson and sports development organisations, our events brought Mayor of London together the local active ageing community and turned them into ping pong trainers. 112 The Art of Impact. The Impact of Art. 113

“This project has totally changed my life and the IMPACT DISTRIBUTION lives of others. I am now running my own company and have taken on five full time employees, all who could be dead or in prison right now if we weren’t on this path of positive ONE MILE AWAY living.”

Simeon Moore CEO of One Mile Away CIC

Penny Woolcock’s award-winning Mainstream attention mentoring schemes. They documentary charts the attempts Major articles appeared were initially supported by in every major national Bertha Foundation and given by two warring gangs, the Burger paper. Coverage was in kind help and mentorship Bar Boys (B21) and the Johnson overwhelmingly favorable by the BRITDOC team, later to the film, and respectful joined by Funding Network Crew (B6), to bring peace to and engaged with the film and others. their neighbourhood after a 25 subjects. The men from the year long conflict. film spoke for themselves Proof of Crime Reduction on Channel 4 News, BBC 1, At the end of 2012 the Boston BBC 3, BBC Radio 4 and on Consulting Group examined ARTE in France and Germany. crime data in Birmingham to ascertain if the truce in Channel 4 sent a copy the summer of 2011 and of the film to 101 Members subsequent peace work of Parliament. had made a substantive The result was a dramatic Inner city audiences difference to the city. reduction in violent crime Reaching inner city youth Education in Birmingham and a film that was a priority so we used For schools, a curriculum They found dramatic won the prize for Best Film a mixed free and pay guide created by teachers for improvements in crime at Edinburgh Film Festival strategy. The film was for teachers was released through figures and reoffending in 2012. sale in cinemas and on iTunes the Doc Academy website in rates in the Birmingham but even before the Channel partnership with the Times areas concerned — a BRITDOC undertook the 4 broadcast we seeded it Educational Supplement. It is reduction of around 40% impact distribution of the film on BitTorrent – including available nationwide for free. in all categories. — aiming to use it to change a subtitled version for those attitudes both within affected who don’t speak English as One Mile Away Social “A riveting portrait of the communities and outside. This a first language. We allowed Enterprise complex, contentious reality work was supported by Bertha it to be uploaded by youths Men from both gangs of the streets, and the Foundation and 410 individual to YouTube multiple times came together to start courage it takes to make a people who raised a total of and encouraged the street a social enterprise and difference, it could well be £21,033 on Kickstarter to help copying that would guarantee initiate an inspiring outreach this year’s most important the film get released in the the biggest distribution in programme of education, British film.” right way. inner cities. employment training and Time Out 114 The Art of Impact. The Impact of Art. 115

Trevor Paglen’s Code Names IMPACT DISTRIBUTION of the Surveillance State being projected onto CITIZENFOUR Parliament

CITIZENFOUR gives We held over 20 private screenings audiences unprecedented for over 1000 politicians, influencers, access to Edward Snowden business and legal figures including in Hong Kong, as he hands screenings at the House of Lords over classified documents and the headquarters of both Twitter providing evidence of mass and Google in the UK. indiscriminate invasions Our partnership with privacy Conservative MP David Davis of privacy by the NSA software company F-Secure spoke at the first event, and GCHQ. led to a number of private saying “the horrifying thing screenings that invited here is not what’s illegal trade press, industry groups but what’s legal” and urged Over and above getting like GSM Association, the companies present to take the film the widest possible telecoms regulator Ofcom, the lead on responding internet companies such to citizens’ needs, “most theatrical distribution, we as Twitter and Google and politicians think the public aimed to engage political, the following telecoms don’t care about all companies: Virgin Media, this, and they are wrong”. business and legal leaders. Sky, EE, BT, Vodafone, O2, FoneHouse, Three and Liberal Democrat Lord Mobile Choice. Strasburger quoted Edward Snowden in the film at the GENERAL CINEMA AUDIENCE: 20,000 House of Lords the day after he came to a private TARGETED INFLUENCERS: 1000+ screening: “With that in mind, I ask the House to reflect on what he had to say about how innocent British citizens’ private data are being hoovered up without Circles any limits”. Trevor Paglen 2014 BRITDOC partnered with The Impact Distribution established art house work was made possible Other activities around the distributors Artificial by Joseph Rowntree film included holding Eye on the theatrical Reform Trust, Bertha encryption classes for release and with political Foundation, Open Society journalists and filmmakers strategists 89Up on the Foundations, Wallace and partnering with artist influencer work. Action Fund and Trevor Paglen on original the BFI Distribution Fund. public art works. FILM IS INCREDIBLY DEMOCRATIC AND ACCESSIBLE. IT’S PROBABLY THE BEST OPTION IF YOU ACTUALLY WANT TO CHANGE THE WORLD, NOT JUST BANKSY ARTIST RE-DECORATE IT. IMPACT AWARD 120 The Art of Impact. The Impact of Art. 121

All finalists are award- A Peer Review Committee The Impact Award is the first winning, independent, made of a remarkable cohort prize to celebrate the power documentary films. But of professionals, working at to qualify for the Impact the nexus of film and social of film as a driver of change; Award, excellence in change, review the entries the first which compels filmmaking is not enough. and are asked to consider: Impact Award documentaries how the film teams increased filmmakers to capture and have also created significant awareness of an issue; how articulate evidence of impact. and measurable social they produced changes or environmental impact. in individual and societal Our aim: to help build new fans attitudes and behaviours; the for the films and create new films’ political and corporate “Finally an award impacts, both locally and partners for the campaign. globally; and the extent to that acknowledges which they enhanced the the unique role capacity of other individuals that documentary and organisations working in the same field. plays in society.” Morgan Spurlock Each year the Impact Award recognises the achievements of five film projects and their impact campaigns, summarised in Impact Reports which are published on our website. 122 The Art of Impact. The Impact of Art. 123

This year, we launched two new awards: the “Be under no NetflixHi5 Award, which recognises the most support on social media for a film campaign; and the Outstanding Partner Prize, in recognition of the illusion: the tenacity, tireless work of campaign partners. Winners in 2014 commitment and were Blackfish and United Way. Previous Winners: 2014 Impact perseverance of The Act of Killing Award Winners: The Age of Stupid American Promise Armadillo Blackfish the compassionate Bag It Granito: How Budrus To Nail A Dictator few can change the Burma VJ The House I Live In Bully No Fire Zone The End of the Line world. The work Gasland Give Up Tomorrow of these five The Interrupters The Invisible War filmmakers The Reckoning Trouble the Water is testament Weapon of War to that.” Susan Sarandon WE SALUTE EACH AND EVERY ONE OF

“Using documentary, which THE TEAMS FOR THEIR eternally reveals that truth is much stranger and more powerful sometimes than fiction, REMARKABLE TENACITY I believe we can affect the world in far greater, deeper, and more positive ways than a missile AND VISION or a drone.” Mira Nair britdocimpactaward.org IMPACT FIELD GUIDE 126 The Art of Impact. 127

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To make the guide, we’ve “All of us at Sundance Launched in 2014, drawn on the work of all our Institute are proud to collaborations, and been recognize the work the Impact Field Guide informed by conversations, of the extraordinary agreements and disagreements team at BRITDOC. Their & Toolkit is a free online with incredibly smart film boundless passion for teams, funders and partners great documentary film POV Denielle Sachs resource designed to from all over the world. and their visionary ideas @POVDocs @DANO129 We’ve put all that together inspire us. And we salute An excellent resource This is super cool. Making help anyone working with a broad theoretical base their commitment to driving from @BRITDOC: The Impact a social impact film? The that covers everything from positive change through Field Guide impact field guide from with film make an even community organising to storytelling. We are glad http://impactguide.org @BRITDOC is out corporate strategy, as well to call them partners, http://impactguide.org greater impact. as sharing some of the most collaborators and cc @PictureMotion interesting case studies from co-conspirators in the last decade. promoting the great art of non-fiction film.” The guide is intended to offer ideas and approaches Keri Putnam so that you don’t have to solve Executive Director, a problem that someone else Sundance Institute has already cracked.

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