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FOURCAST JOURNAL
FORECAST JOURNAL, ISSUE 11
LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA
Forecast is an art collective collaborating within an experimental creative process.
Issue 11 was generated on land, across six states and five countries, and in the air between 3,000 and 30,000 feet. It contains 18 essays presenting unexpected perspectives on the space between Earth and outer space accompanied by visual experiments attempting nonhuman dialogues with air. In these pages you will find the air making art, water making a building, earth making sound, trees marking time, clouds unmaking borders, atmosphere becoming philosophy, a planet regulating itself, there becoming here, then becoming now.
LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA
Forecast is an art collective collaborating within an experimental creative process.
Issue 11 was generated on land, across six states and five countries, and in the air between 3,000 and 30,000 feet. It contains 18 essays presenting unexpected perspectives on the space between Earth and outer space accompanied by visual experiments attempting nonhuman dialogues with air. In these pages you will find the air making art, water making a building, earth making sound, trees marking time, clouds unmaking borders, atmosphere becoming philosophy, a planet regulating itself, there becoming here, then becoming now.
FULL COLOR | 11×15 IN. | 180 PAGES
“Air is far from empty. Our planet’s atmosphere is a dense stew that scientists are only beginning to understand. This organic brew contains viruses and bacteria and all manner of plant and animal life forms in an astonishing variety — caterpillars, spiders, aphids, butterflies, moths, beetles, mites and other invertebrates; plus countless seeds, spores and pollen, grains of fungi, algae, mosses, liverworts and flowering plants.”
— DAVID LUKAS, AERIAL PLANKTON
DOCUMENTARY POWER RESEARCH INSTITUE - AMERICAN UNIVERSITY WASHIGNTON 2024
Beyond the impact report: What’s Really needed to Produce and Sustain Social Impact in Documentary Film? Filmmakers and Producers “Get Real” about the last decade of social impact work
Documentary Power Research Institute at the Center for Media & Social Impact
School of Communication
American University, Washington, 2024.
The Center for Media & Social Impact (CMSI), based at American University’s School of Communication in Washington, D.C., is an innovation lab and research center that creates, studies, and showcases media for social impact. Focusing on independent, documentary and public media, the Center bridges boundaries between scholars, producers and communication practitioners across media production, media impact, social justice, public policy, and audience engagement. The Center produces resources for the field and academic research; convenes conferences and events; and works collaboratively to understand and design media that matter.
A BRIEF INTRODUCTION
As both an outcome and a set of activities, making social impact through documentary storytelling has changed enormously over the past decade – an era dominated by the entry of commercial streaming giants, alongside new technological advancements. It isn’t an understatement to say that the entire environment in which filmmakers and impact producers create has seen fundamental change over the last few years, due to important disruptions made by rising social movements and the arrival of new funding powers, distributors, and engagement platforms. At such a juncture, it’s important to raise the following key questions: What does social impact in documentary entail today? What are the current challenges? What lessons and models of the past are being brought forward and which ones are being overlooked? What does success look like in this work and how do we define it? This report centers this pursuit by engaging a diverse set of working filmmakers and impact producers in conversation around their experiences leading social impact campaigns with documentaries over the last decade. The aim is to “get real” about what their perspectives tell us about the state of the field, and to serve as a practical guide for further exploration and discussion of experiences and issues of shared concern. By creating a space for more than 50 filmmakers and impact producers to hit the ‘pause button’ and take time to reflect on current experiences and trends in the industry – and especially in their own work – this report endeavors to lift key perspectives and immediate challenges for wider deliberation and consideration for a field in rapid transition.
MEDIATECA DE CINE E IMPACTO SOCIAL DE LATINOAMERICA
CASE STUDY VERDE COMO EL ORO
MEDIATECA DE CINE E IMPACTO SOCIAL DE LATINOAMERICA
2024
ABOUT MEDIATECA DE IMPACTO LATINOAMERICANO
We bring together documented case studies of Latin American initiatives where cinema demonstrates its power as a driver of change. Here you will find complete campaigns broken down into their essential components: strategies, outreach materials, reach data, and key learnings.
Why learn about this impact campaign?
Due to the high demand for raw materials linked to the global energy transition, Colombia has experienced a sharp increase in applications for large-scale metal mining projects. Many of these concessions are located in ecosystems critical for biodiversity conservation, climate regulation, and food production. These dynamics have triggered socio-environmental conflicts between local communities, multinational companies, and the State.
One such case is in southwestern Antioquia, where communities have sustained more than a decade of civil resistance against the Quebradona gold and copper project by AngloGold Ashanti. Our case study analyzes the impact campaign of the documentary Verde como el Oro, which focused on amplifying the message promoted by grassroots organizations.
For two weeks, parallel to the film’s release, we launched a flexible campaign to highlight the gaps and flaws in the mining company’s environmental licensing studies. Many of the inconsistencies later identified by the National Environmental Authority were already developed in the documentary as narrative blocks, and subsequently became the foundation for the graphic materials used in the impact campaign.
Through this campaign, we were able to influence national public opinion and shape the decision of the National Environmental Authority, the entity responsible for granting the mining license. In November 2021, the license for the Quebradona mining project was officially archived.