Sahar Driver

Film + Strategy + Campaign Design + Social Change

USA

Social movements need powerful stories. But if that is all it took to solve social problems, we wouldn’t have any. Strong and compelling stories that grapple with timely and important issues can benefit from careful planning to ensure the message reaches the right audiences, in the right ways, at the right times.

As a documentary impact strategist, I have helped filmmakers, funders, and movement leaders build strategic partnerships and plans that strengthen their respective projects and contribute to lasting change. I have also conducted research and designed programming to strengthen the field of documentary impact.

My latest work focuses on supporting, resourcing, and connecting people of color led and serving organizations working in nonfiction. You can learn more here: colorcongress.org. Unfortunately that means I am not currently taking on any new clients.

Beyond Inclusion: The Critical Role of People of Color in the U.S. Documentary Ecosystem

September 28, 2020  /  Sahar Driver

Take a look at this new report I was commissioned to write by Ford JustFilms last fall called: Beyond Inclusion: The Critical Role of People of Color in the U.S. Documentary Ecosystem. It just released through IDA’s Getting Real 2020. You can access it here:

www.fordfoundation.org/work/learning/research-reports/beyond-inclusion/

The report provides a critical overview of the work and influence of nonfiction organizations led by and serving People of Color in the US, from Third World Newsreel to Brown Girls Doc Mafia, and makes recommendations to funders and stakeholders on why and how these efforts should be resourced at this time. We hope this work can inform philanthropic funding strategies that support POC-led and serving organizations as new centers of gravity and influence in the field. Take a look and let me know if you have any thoughts or ideas for powering the recommendations.

beyondinclusionresearch@gmail.com

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