Learn how to build allies and partnerships, create and measure successful impact campaigns, and transform your passion for social change into a viable career

Overview

Impact Producing is an emerging field in the film industry that uses issue-driven films as catalysts to create social, political, or cultural change through advocacy and engagement. Just as films have producers to manage the creative and financial process from script to screen, they also increasingly need Impact Producers to take the film campaign from production to impact.

This hands-on class will guide participants through the essentials for becoming an Impact Producer for documentary, narrative films, and other content by identifying key skills, goals, and understanding best theories and practices. Participants will learn the scope of work necessary for building allies and partnerships, creating and measuring successful campaigns, and transforming passion for social change into a viable career path. Participants will also learn different dynamics of change through structure and public policy practices. 

The course is taught by Cecilia R. Mejia, a producer and Social Impact Producer, who teaches a version of this class as an adjunct professor at NYU.

What You Will Learn: 

– Be able to identify the impact dynamics (the kinds of change) that film can drive.

– Be able to write a strategic plan for an impact vision.

– Be able to interpret, measure, and evaluate impact through analysis.

– Be able to extend the life of a film through impactful conversation and discussions. 

– Be able to work and create change on the community level.

Class Dates/Times:

• Tuesday, March 23rd 6:30 PM EST – 8:30 PM EST
• Thursday, March 25th 6:30 PM EST – 8:30 PM EST
• Tuesday, March 30th 6:30 PM EST – 8:30 PM EST

Instructors

Cecilia R. Mejia

Cecilia R. Mejia was born and raised in Brooklyn, a first-generation Filipino-American. She has worked in development for several non-profit organizations, including NGOs affiliated with the United Nations. She has a master’s degree in Public Administration and Affairs from SUNY at Buffalo, and she also completed the Columbia Business School’s Emerging Nonprofit Leaders Program. She’s won several awards as the lead producer of the upcoming YELLOW ROSE (acquired by Sony Pictures) and Social Impact Producer of the award-winning doc CALL HER GANDA. She serves as the creative lead on several other projects working on the creative, funding and social impact components of films. Cecilia is combining her love of film with the goal of focusing on social impact stories that inspire change, most specifically with under-resourced youth through her non-profit organization Art of Me as the Creative Director. She is an Adjunct Instructor at NYU.