Impact Partnerships Masterclass: Online

We’re excited to invite you to our upcoming Impact Partnerships Masterclass on Tuesday, 29 October at 10am AEDT via Zoom.

This final masterclass in the Impact Producer Program series for 2024 is designed for filmmakers, impact producers and changemakers interested in driving meaningful social change through partnering documentary impact campaigns with the social sector.

Learn from industry specialists, Jackie Turnure and Teri Calder, as they engage in a discussion with Documentary Australia’s CEO Dr Mitzi Goldman on how they have successfully built partnerships for documentary impact campaigns.

Partnerships can help documentaries reach new audiences and drive social change in a myriad of ways. Through real-life case studies, we’ll discuss how to find and develop partners for your film’s impact campaign, strategies for effective collaboration to achieve shared goals and the importance of planning and building long-lasting and meaningful relationships.

About the panel

Jackie Turnure is a triple Emmy award-winning Screen Producer with over 10 years of experience working as Impact Producer, helping film and TV makers connect their projects to audiences and organisations who advocate for the issue at the heart of the work. Jackie’s impact projects include men's mental health television series Man Up, ocean conservation series Australia's Ocean Odyssey, refugee documentary Rosemary's Way, the adult survivor's true crime documentary Ghosthunter, men's mental health campaign Boys Do Cry, women in STEMM feature documentary The Leadership, biopic documentary My Name is Gulpilil, asylum seeker documentary Freedom is Beautiful, and the Bob Brown feature documentary The Giants. Jackie’s drama impact projects include detention centre drama series Stateless, social housing television series The Heights, Muslim comedy feature Ali's Wedding, modern slavery feature Buoyancy, and First Nations historical feature Sweet Country. Before returning to Australia in 2015, Jackie headed up the Los Angeles office of Think Jam, a digital marketing agency for major entertainment clients including Sony Pictures, Warner Brothers, Paramount, Lionsgate, MGM and Twentieth Century Fox and was Head of Development and Production at Hoodlum.

Teri Calder is the Executive Producer of Impact and Partnerships in ABC Digital Content and leads a team that produces impact campaigns alongside ABC screen programs that have a social impact focus. The team develop community partnerships and produce stories and resources for multiple ABC platforms that engage audiences to participate in creating real-world positive impact, foster social cohesion and extend national conversations. Some of the team's recent factual impact projects include Maggie Beer's Big Mission, Magda's Big National Health Check, Old People's Home for 4 Year Olds, Old People's Home for Teenagers, Stuff The British Stole series 2, War on Waste series 3, Australia's Wild Odyssey and the Your Planet climate and environment solutions short documentary initiative.

The Impact Partnerships Masterclass is presented as part of the Impact Producer Program which is supported by its major partners, The Snow Foundation, Screen Australia, Screen NSW, Minderoo Foundation and Dyson Bequest, plus venue partner Shark Island Institute.