Don't You Have Docs? and VCA talk 10th Sept 2013. Social movements of all kinds use films as tools to advance their campaigns and in some instances films can be used to encourage campaigns to start up. Films and media are great tools for campaigners; however, the question is how to harness the inspiration that people feel as they leave the cinema and build community to respond to these issues? www.echotango.org for more

2. intro links
• Alex’s blog: echotango.org/blog
• Big hART: bighart.org
• twitter @aggyk
• Churchill: churchilltrust.com.au
• Don’tYou Have Docs?
www.dontyouhavedocs.com

3. Coniston - Rebel Films
/ PAW Media 2012
Nothing Rhymes
with Ngapartji -
Big hART 2010

5. It’s much harder to hurt
someone if you know
their story.
John Bakes & Scott Rankin
Big hART
Big hART
Big hART

6. Nations are narrations.
- Edward Said
- Edward Said

8. The destiny of the world is
determined less by the
battles that are lost and
won than by the stories it
loves and believes in -
Harold Goddard

9. changing media scape• Crowd funding; Pozible, Kickstater, Indiegogo
• New funding partnerships; Bertha, Brit Doc,
Fledgling Fund, Just Films, Good Pitch
• New digital distribution models; Hulu, Netflix,Vudu,
Distrify, Beama, Screenburner
• New theatrical crowd distribution models; Gathr,
Tugg,

10. sector snapshot
• NGOs making content: 350.org Do the Maths, Invisible
Children: Kony 2012
• Human Rights observers:Witness, Engage Media West
PapuaVideo Project,
• Activist films: Occupy live stream, indymedia, Freedom
Flotilla
• Traditional documentary filmmakers
• Impact Space; outreach, engagement, impact - Impact
Producers

12. Big hART’s Ngapartji
Ngapartji
Nothing Rhymes with
Ngapartji

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14. Ngapartji Ngapartji
aims;
• to highlight the status of indigenous languages and
generate a national and international groundswell
in desire to maintain and preserve these languages.
• to respond to issues of health, education,
substance abuse and violence presenting for young
Pitjantjatjara people in Alice Springs and region
using arts intervention strategies.

15. Ngapartji Ngapartji
• Memory baskets x 2000
• Ninti site, 10 seasons touring theatre show
• Community screenings
• ABC TV Broadcast, NITV Broadcast
• Ronin Films education distribution
• Linked to indigenous languages policy
campaign

16. The Invisible War
(2012)
(2012)
• Trigger warning, this film discusses sexual
assault in the military.

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18. The Invisible War aims:
•to end the epidemic of sexual assault in the
U.S military
•to help survivors of military sexual assault
heal
•to use the theatrical release of The Invisible
War as a catalyst in creating lasting political and
cultural change

19. Case Study: Invisible War
• Invisible No More #notinvisible campaign
• Reporting mechanisms changed within days of it
being screening on Capitol Hill
• 350 + screenings on military bases
• 600 + screenings at universities, in communities
• At least 266,000 military personnel seen film
• Used in Department of Defence training

20. Budrus by JustVision
It takes a village to unite the most divided people on
earth.

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22. JustVision aims:
• to contribute to peace by generating
awareness and support for Palestinians and
Israelis who pursue freedom, dignity,
security and peace using non violent means
• to offer inspiring models that alter the way
that audiences think about and respond to
the occupation and conflict

23. Budrus aims:
• Palestine; shift the conversation to demonstrate the
efficacy of non violence and the power of women in
social change.
• USA; put town of Budrus and it’s successful non violence
campaign on the map in contrast to the dominant
discourse of vioelnce, extremism and political deadlock.
• Israel; generate positive media re Budrus and awareness
raising of Palestinian non violence campaigns

24. Budrus
• Seen by over 2.7M people
• Cinema release is over 185 cities
• Winner of numerous awards internationally
• Film cost $340k, campaign $840k

25. Gasland

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27. Gasland aims:
•to put “fracking” on the map
•to enable viewers to connect with grassroots
organisations via social media
•to lobby elected officials at the highest level in
order to curtail fracking

28. Gasland
• Cost $32k to make film, $240k to run
campaign
• Seen by over 2M people
• Put fracking on the map

29. Mary Meets Mohammad
Kino Cinema Nov 3rd Q&A
Nov 7-13th
Other great examples:
Age of Stupid
Granito
The House I live In
Gideon’s Army
God Loves Uganda
The Interrupters
Tall Man
End of the Line
Bully
Escape Fire
Inequality for All
How to Survive a Plague
Pray the Devil Back to -Hell
Molly and Mobarak
The Hungry Tide

30. Film Sprout
• “Growing grass roots distribution and community action
for documentaries”
• www.filmsprout.org

31. Working Films
• “Linking non fiction film with cutting edge activism”
• http://www.workingfilms.org

32. Centre for Story Based
Stategy
• Center for Story-based Strategy movement-building
organization dedicated to harnessing the power of
narrative for social change.
• http://www.storybasedstrategy.org/

33. Good Pitch
• Good Pitch connects the world's best social justice films
with new allies and partners.
• https://goodpitch.org

34. Big change looks impossible
when you start, and looks
inevitable after you’ve
finished.
-Bob Hunter
-Bob Hunter

35. crucial ingredients• a good story
• well told
• clear goals
• knowing your audience
• having a clear strategy
• networks - connection to movements and
influential people
• good timing / luck / zeitgeist

36. but I’m a filmmaker /
artist!
• You don’t have to do everything - find partners
and networks
• Let’s build a movement of ‘impact producers’
• You can still be independent and poetic AND be
political
• If you take the time to make work of art/film
might as well get max impact for your efforts

37. closing thoughts
• Nations are narrations
• Stories we include/exclude define us
• Cultural producers have disproportionate capacity
to influence change
• Therefore we have to a) take this responsibility
seriously b) get smarter c) build stronger
networks and community

38. • Alex’s blog: echotango.org/blog
• Big hART: bighart.org
• twitter @aggyk
• Churchill: churchilltrust.com.au
• Don’tYou Have Docs?
www.dontyouhavedocs.com