Join us for a full-day Advancing Impact workshop presented by Documentary Australia.

This workshop is open to emerging, mid, or advanced screen practitioners interested in understanding how documentary storytelling can be used to create social impact.

Documentary Australia’s Advancing Impact workshop is designed to give screen practitioners an understanding of using impact campaigns to enhance audience reach and engagement, as well as the social outcomes of their documentary projects.

Key areas of learning include impact campaign strategy, impact campaign activities, partnership development, strategic campaign communications, and philanthropic fundraising. Using case studies to model different approaches, participants will discover various ways to shape their project’s impact strategies.

Participants will also have the opportunity to engage directly with Documentary Australia’s leadership team, who bring extensive experience in impact strategy and philanthropic engagement.

Who Should Attend

Western Australian screen practitioners at early,  mid or advanced stages of their careers who are passionate about creating change through documentary storytelling.

Workshop Contents

• Overview of how documentaries can be used as a tool to create social impact

• Understanding impact campaign strategies, including defining key messages, goals and activities for an impact campaign

• Impact campaign activities and exploring alternative pathways to audiences beyond traditional distribution

• Impact partnerships and strategic campaign communications

• Philanthropic fundraising

Workshop Details

Date: Tuesday, 4th November

Time: 9:30am – 5:00pm

Venue: State Library of Western Australia, 25 Francis Street, Perth WA 6000

Cost: $50+GST

Four free places are available for First Nations, CALD, or participants living with a disability. Email to request – first in, first served. [email protected]

Capacity: 40 participants

Morning and afternoon refreshments provided. Lunch to be purchased or brought by participants. There is a café available on-site.

This workshop is supported by Screenwest and the Western Australian Government through the Workshops and Masterclasses Fund. 

SPEAKERS 

Dr Mitzi Goldman – Chief Executive Officer

Mitzi is a documentary director, producer, editor, and educator with over 35 years in the industry. Mitzi co-founded and is the CEO of Documentary Australia, which has developed a new paradigm for funding and outreach of social impact documentary films. Alongside her production career, she has worked in the academy teaching documentary production and screen studies at Murdoch University, WA, before being employed as co-head of the documentary department at the National Film and Television School (AFTRS) for six years. Mitzi holds a PhD in Cultural Studies and has served on juries for film festivals in Australia, Iran, and China. 

Stephanie King – Impact Director

Stephanie (she/her) is Documentary Australia’s Impact Director. She is a filmmaker and impact producer whose work includes Undermined – Tales From the Kimberley, Voices of the River, and Martuwarra: River of Life. Her projects have won multiple awards and influenced public policy. She has consulted on documentaries for Al Jazeera, SBS, and Why Not Theatre. 

Sharlene Dadd – Head of Partnerships & Communications

Sharlene brings experience as Head of Impact Partnerships at WWF-Australia and has had previous roles in the disability, agriculture, wine and tourism sectors. Her strengths lie in setting and achieving strategic objectives, generating and growing lasting relationships for sustainable financial and in-kind support. She holds a BA from the University of Sydney and speaks French and Indonesian. Her work is driven by a belief in the power of storytelling to inspire change.

About Documentary Australia

Since 2008, Documentary Australia has been Australia’s leading not-for-profit organisation committed to fostering social impact through documentary storytelling. We support film teams and impact partners to place documentaries at the heart of social impact campaigns, engaging broad audiences in initiatives for positive social change. 

Over 17 years, we’ve developed unique expertise in documentary impact campaigns and philanthropic fundraising through programs such as Good Pitch Australia, the Environmental Incubator, the Environmental Accelerator, the Impact Producer Program, and Climate Story Lab Australia. 

Our impact work includes campaigns for Backtrack Boys, Ka-Ching! Pokie Nation, I Am A Girl, Undermined, Incarceration Nation, Delikado, Climate Changers, and Trailblazers, as well as strategic support for over 30 other documentaries. 

We are committed to building capacity and contributing to professional development in the screen industry, helping practitioners forge new pathways to audiences and leverage documentary for social change.

Documentary Australia acknowledges the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of this nation.  We acknowledge the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation as the traditional custodians of the land on which we work and we pay our respects to ancestors and Elders, past, present and emerging.