The Good Media Network
Who we are
The Good Media Network is a Berlin-based network for film, impact and audience development. Our work circles around one question: how do documentaries create change beyond the screen?
Through the Doxumentale, the International Documentary and Media Festival Berlin, and its industry programme Dx’Hub, the Good Media Pitch, the Good Media Fund and event series such as Stories of Freedom and Films Change the World, we connect filmmakers and impact producers with NGOs, foundations, education and civil society.
“Impact producing is a term many know and few can put into practice. We want to change that.”
— Anna Ramskogler-Witt, founder of The Good Media Network
What the Impact Lab is
The Impact Lab is our new platform for workshops, consultancies and exchange on film, impact and audience development.
Workshops: A modular online series, from impact producing essentials to strategy, partnerships, distribution and audience design, to craft topics like interviewing, consent and documentary work in crisis zones. Taught by practitioners from the Dx’Hub circle, in small groups, in German or English.
Consultancies: One-to-one sessions to work on your own project.
Forum: Where questions, funding tips, resources and peers come together.
Built by us, open to others
We built the Impact Lab ourselves, with our own technology and no off-the-shelf course platform in between. Registration, workshops, consultancies and the forum all live in one place that we can develop the way the community needs it.
We curate the programme, but the platform is open: if you have knowledge on film and impact to share, you are invited to offer your own workshops here. And if you are looking for a workshop solution for your own organisation, get in touch. We are happy to share what we have built.
Why we do this
“We are convinced that films can change something, but rarely on their own. Impact happens when the right film meets the right people at the right moment, with a strategy behind it. Too often that is left to chance, because the knowledge sits with a handful of people. The Impact Lab is where we share it: with those who make films, those who work with them, and everyone who believes that a good story deserves to do more than be seen.”
— Anna Ramskogler-Witt, founder of The Good Media Network and Festival Director of the Doxumentale