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Our carefully curated selection of resources is designed to support & protect filmmakers, producers, journalists and their contributors.
Developed on behalf of the Documentary Funders Network by Doc Society and made possible by the Ford Foundation and the Perspective Fund. This initiative is designed to help documentary filmmakers identify threats, assess and manage risks, and implement contingency plans to keep themselves, their production and their contributors safe and secure. It includes a handbook, checklist and hostile filming protocol covering:
Digital Security
Journalistic Accountability
Legal Safety
High Risk Locations
Subject Security
PR Safety
Channel 4 Television’s legal & compliance hub for producers. It contains practical guidance on the main areas of law, regulation, and best practice that apply to creating and publishing content.
It includes media law and compliance guidance, training e-modules and practical guidelines covering:
Fair Dealing
Factual Content
High-risk filming
Secret Filming
Filming with under 18’s
Payments
The Global Center for Journalism and Trauma is a resource centre and global network of journalists, journalism educators and health professionals dedicated to improving media coverage of trauma, conflict and tragedy.
It includes many resource tools designed to protect both journalists and those that the interview/film including:
Working with traumatic imagery
Interviewing victims of sexual and gender-based violence
Interviewing children
The Archival Producers Alliance (APA) is a collective of experienced US documentary filmmakers. They have developed the guidelines to help filmmakers, funders, and distributors establish best practices for use of Generative AI within documentary film.
The Guidelines apply the following overarching principles which govern the use of AI in documentaries:
Value of Primary Sources
Transparency
Legal Considerations
Ethical Considerations of Creating Human Simulations
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