Leaders of several intermediary organizations share how they envision their role within—and how they ultimately hope to upend—the philanthropic landscape.

The last 20 years has seen the evolution of discourses of care in and around documentary move towards an attentiveness to the obligations a filmmaker has to the people depicted on screen and the communities they belong to. In the last 10 years, that attentiveness has expanded further toward the recognition of a story’s potential to harm or heal audiences — and even the filmmakers themselves.

The conversation about documentary impact has undergone a number of shifts since impact producing began to emerge as a practice within the documentary field around 20 years ago.

This year’s Academy Awards were a standout for the documentary community. For the first time, not one but four of the five nominees for best documentary were filmmakers of color.

True power exists in the liminal space between individual success and collective gains.

“The premise for empathy has to be equal humanity; it is an injustice to demand that the maligned identify with those who question their humanity.”

-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie