Aminah Elster, Campaign & Policy Coordinator with the CA Coalition for Women Prisoners and organizer with Survived & Punished CA
Docs in Action offers funding and distribution to short films that explore topics of social and environmental justice topics. Through Docs in Action, we provide finishing funds to nonfiction media-makers, and we curate and tour short films with partners directly impacted by the issues at hand and are leading the change.
At Working Films, we believe people in movements should determine which films serve their movements. Our funding decisions and where we host screenings are led by our movement partners, not by us.
Our current Docs in Action campaigns include Try Us: Movies for the Modern Labor Movement, Beyond Walls, Stories Beyond Borders and Revisioning Recovery. In 2025, Docs in Action focused on films that illuminate the growing dangers of fascism and authoritarianism, check them out here!
Eligibility
1. Applicants must be living in the United States and planning an impact campaign to be carried out in the U.S.
2. Applicants must be at least 21 years of age as of the RFP application deadline.
3. Applicants must have completed at least one non-student documentary film project as the director before the application is submitted.
Currently closed for applications. If you have questions, please contact us at [email protected].
Check out our current Docs in Action campaigns below! They include Try Us: Movies for the Modern Labor Movement, Beyond Walls, Stories Beyond Borders and Revisioning Recovery.
