For its Impact Days Industry Programme, the #FIFDH, leading Human Rights Film Festival based in the heart of #Geneva, invites Filmmakers, Producers, and Impact Producers to an exclusive online session, Impact Filmmaking for Human Rights.

On January 25, 2022, join a wide range of international experts and award-winning filmmakers who will share their experiences and know-how on how films can contribute to changing mindsets, behaviours, and structures when connected with strategic changemakers. Find out more about how your film can become part of a broader movement of structural change through the power of cinematic storytelling.

Impact Filmmaking For Human Rights Programme

• • 15:00 CET | WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION – Laura Longobardi, Head of Impact and Industry, FIFDH

• • 15:15 | OPENING KEYNOTE – Storyteller vs. Storybeing: 3 Things Filmmakers Do To Have Transformational (not transactional) Impact Campaigns – Ani Mercedes, Impact producer, founder Looky Looky Pictures
  • 16:15 | CASE STUDIES – Some recent examples of successful impact campaigns – Nicole van Schaik, Director of Development, Doc Society
  • 17:00 | BREAK
  • 17:15 | What is an Impact producer and What (the hell) is GIPA? – Naomi Walker, Global Impact Producers’ Network Coordinator
  • 17:30 | PANEL DISCUSSION – How can we create a more sustainable eco-system in impact funding in these times of crisis? – Moderated by Naomi Walker – Cara Mertes, Founding Executive Director, International Resource for Impact & Storytelling (IRIS), Rebecca Lichtenfeld, Executive Director, InMaat Foundation, Rasmus Steen, Head of IMS Documentary Film, International Media Support (IMS)
  • 18:30 | END OF SESSION