Our Resource Hub provides essential tools and guidance for creatives

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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 Dart 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 is a project of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City, with international satellite offices in London and Melbourne.

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

Developed by The Producers Alliance for Cinema and Television (PACT), the UK trade association for independent film & tv producers - to help independent producers navigate the opportunities and challenges of using Generative AI technology.

The AI principles and guidance were developed in conjunction with PACT’s AI Working Group (comprised of members of both large and small production companies across a range of genres), and industry experts. The guidance covers:

  • PACT AI Principles

  • AI Legal Issues

  • How Do AI Models work?

  • AI in Pre-Production, Production and Post-Production

  • AI in Distribution

  • AI Tools For Producers

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