With the help of our amazing partners, we created four action coalitions tasked with brainstorming tangible solutions-based outcomes discussed at this year's Virtual Summit. Together, our goal is to reimagine how Jackson Wild, its partners, and community can amplify conservation through strategic collaborations.
But, let's be clear: the real work has just begun! Be part of the transformation as we accelerate change within the science, conservation and nature media sectors. Planning and execution is underway, and we need your help as we launch the Jackson Wild Collective later this year. Please reach out to Melanie@jacksonwild.org to be part of the dynamic process of designing this new platform, or to be a part of the work of the continuing action coalitions.
Reshaping an Inclusive Natural History Film Industry
Sponsored by: HHMI Tangled Bank Studios
This group is focused on identifying tangible pathways to enhance diversity and inclusion within our industry sector through thoughtful practices and creation of early, pre- and mid-career development programs. In addition, the group is working to ensure BIPOC, all genders and ages, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ are adequately represented. Focus areas will include countries having an established nature/conservation filmmaking industry.
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Coalition Contributors:
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KEY TAKEAWAYS AND RESOURCES:
- Documentary Producers Alliance's Anti-Racist & Structural Equality Resource Guide
- European Producers’ Club Gender Charter of Good Practices
- Brown Girls Doc Mafia - Brown Girls Doc Mafia is an initiative advocating for over 3,300 women and non-binary people of color working in the documentary film industry around the world. We fight inequality by building community and sharing resources, nourishing our creative brilliance, demanding access and visibility in creative and professional environments, enriching our community with the knowledge to sustain ourselves financially, and by cutting through oppressive industry structures to advocate for our members.
- 500 Queer Scientists
- Black Girls Illustrate - A community celebrating black women artists and illustrators
- Women Who Draw - Women Who Draw is an open directory of female* professional illustrators, artists and cartoonists. It was created by two women artists in an effort to increase the visibility of female illustrators, emphasizing female illustrators of color, LBTQ+, and other minority groups of female illustrators.
- Examples of Audio Description - 50 films from the United States National Park Service, with examples of Audio Description (AD) and Subtitles for Deaf and Hard of Hearing (SDH). This summer the Harpers Ferry Center for Interpretive Media, the design hub for the US National Park Service, celebrated its 50th Anniversary. Due to COVID, what would have been a couple of local film screenings became an online event with 50 films. I’m sharing because all of the films have AD and SDH. They are all done a little differently, so it is worth checking out a few to get a sense of it. As noted, worth experiencing with your eyes open and closed. Questions: Sarah_gulick@nps.gov
- Firelight Media’s Beyond Resilience Series: A Real-Time Resource for POC Filmmakers
- Her Wild Vision - Find a Woman Conservation Photographer or Filmmaker
- Inclusion Coalition: Audiovisual Accessibility - What we can do in the audiovisual industry to improve inclusion and accessibility for
people with disabilities. Questions: Carolina Sosa, mcarolina.sosaa@gmail.com
Stay Healthy, Be Green
Sponsored by: Terra Mater and ORF Universum
This group is focused on integrating existing industry trends for greening production to create standards specific to documentary filmmaking and wildlife projects in the field with opportunities for collaboration, all in the era of COVID.
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KEY TAKEAWAYS AND RESOURCES:
Elevating Global Talent & Local Storytellers
Solutions for Expanding our Field & Broadening our [Planetary] Vision
Sponsored by: National Geographic
This Action Forum unveils a new Jackson Wild Hub of solutions, resources, and best practices for ensuring global talent and local storytellers have greater access to training, opportunities and success in wildlife & documentary filmmaking. Our conversation distills the leading efforts of networks, distributors, producers and other industry members to chart a course and for the Jackson Wild Community to pave the way in expanding our field and broadening our view of the planet with concrete solutions and commitments to change.
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Vanessa Berlowitz - Wildstar Films
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KEY TAKEAWAY:
One of the first initiatives resulting from the Jackson Wild Action Coalitions and Summit, the Jackson Wild Collective will be a comprehensive production resource for production teams eager to engage experienced local field crews, equipment and other resources, as well as an interactive forum for workshops, internships, mentoring, funding and RFPs, and other databases. Over 100 commissioners and filmmakers participated in the conversations leading up to and during the Summit Action Forum leading to creation of this new hub of solutions, resources, and best practices for ensuring global talent and local storytellers have greater access to training, opportunities and success in wildlife & documentary filmmaking. Distilling the leading efforts of networks, distributors, producers and other industry members, the Jackson Wild Community will pave the way in expanding our field and broadening our view of the planet with concrete solutions and commitments for change.
One of the first initiatives resulting from the Jackson Wild Action Coalitions and Summit, the Jackson Wild Collective will be a comprehensive production resource for production teams eager to engage experienced local field crews, equipment and other resources, as well as an interactive forum for workshops, internships, mentoring, funding and RFPs, and other databases. Over 100 commissioners and filmmakers participated in the conversations leading up to and during the Summit Action Forum leading to creation of this new hub of solutions, resources, and best practices for ensuring global talent and local storytellers have greater access to training, opportunities and success in wildlife & documentary filmmaking. Distilling the leading efforts of networks, distributors, producers and other industry members, the Jackson Wild Community will pave the way in expanding our field and broadening our view of the planet with concrete solutions and commitments for change.
Impact Campaign Development
Sponsored by: National Geographic
This group is focused on creating open-source resources that empower storytellers to effectively build impact strategy into the DNA of their projects from concept through distribution.
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RESOURCES TO SHAPE YOUR IMPACT CAMPAIGN:
CASE STUDIES:
- Full Resolution Impact Media Report, created with support from HHMI Tangled Bank Studios and the Center for Environmental Filmmaking
(Mobile Version here) - Impact Field Guide 2.0 from the Doc Society
- The Change Agency - Campaign Strategy
- Beautiful Trouble - Campaign Tactics & Tips
- Blueprints for Change
- Sound Off Films' Guide to Having More Productive Conversations about Climate Change
- Be a Guide: Our Guiding Principles from Project InsideOut
CASE STUDIES:
- Impact Report on The Blue Heart Documentary
- Big Cats Initiative
- Jackson Wild Media Awards Finalist in the Impact Campaign Category: Peng Yu Sai
Peng Yu Sai - Impact Goals Presentation
Proposal to enlist conservation partners - Jackson Wild Media Awards Finalist in the Impact Campaign Category: Sea of Shadows
Sea of Shadows Impact Campaign Case Study - Jackson Wild Media Awards Finalist in the Impact Campaign Category: The Elephant Queen
Impact Campaign Informative Document
