Founded in 2005, Doc Society is a global non profit with teams based in Europe, East Africa, the Americas and Australia. For 18 years the organisation has opened up new resources for independent documentary filmmakers and over that period, granted a total of $22 million in production and impact funds.
To date we have helped to fund more than 500 award winning documentary films including: CITIZENFOUR, An Insignificant Man, Hale County This Morning, This Evening, Edge Of Democracy, The Look Of Silence, The White Helmets, Whose Streets, Virunga, Softie, Roll Red Roll and The Silence of Others.
In 2023, we re-granted over $2.7 million USD to global storytellers. Doc Society has sharpened its global operations with two major narrative strategy initiatives: the and the , focused on “unleashing transformative storytelling to advance a just future.”