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Documentary · 78 minutes

Anybody can host a screening, and the terms are on this page.

Not "get in touch to discuss licensing". The fee, what you need in the room, what gets sent to you, and what happens to any money taken at the door — all of it below, so you can decide without asking anybody's permission first.

Watch it
Streaming — On the platforms listed below. Replace these with wherever yours actually is
A library or a school — Institutional access is a different licence and usually already held. Ask your librarian before paying for anything
Free in some places — Community and educational screenings are free, and the terms for that are further down this page
Host it
Anywhere with a wall — A hall, a classroom, a front room, a pub back bar. All four have happened and all four worked
What you need — A screen, a speaker, and one person willing to say a sentence at the start
What you get — The file, posters, and a discussion guide written for people who have never run one
Press and festivals
Press kit — Stills, a synopsis at three lengths, and the director's contact. Sent the same day, always
Festival submissions — Handled directly rather than through an agent. Ask and you'll get a straight answer about availability
Interviews — Yes, including the awkward questions. Especially those — see the section on consent below
What's in it, before you sit down
What is in it — Replace this with the specifics for your own film, and put roughly where in the running time each one falls
Roughly when — By minute. "Contains distressing scenes" tells nobody when to look away; "around minute forty" does
What is not shown — Just as useful, and almost never stated. If the worst of it happens off camera, say so — it changes who can watch
At a screening — There is a door, it is at the back, and nobody will notice you use it. Say that out loud at the start of every screening
Watching it alone — Is harder than watching it in a room. That is true of most films like this and it is worth knowing beforehand
Afterwards — The discussion guide has a section for anybody who found it difficult, and it is the first section rather than an appendix
What this film doesn't do
It isn't an investigation — It follows people. If you want the reporting, it exists and it is linked below rather than summarised badly here
It doesn't name everybody — Some things could not be verified to a standard worth publishing, so they aren't in it. That is a choice, not an oversight
It doesn't tell you what to think — There is no narration doing that job. Several people who disagree with each other are all in it and none is set up to lose
It isn't the whole story — Seventy-eight minutes out of two years. What was cut is on the record if anybody asks, and people do
It won't fix anything by itself — Films don't. What they do is get a room of people into the same conversation, which is why the screening terms are this generous
Where to go next — The organisations doing the actual work are listed in the guide, and none of them paid to be there

Screening licences

Community

Free · no charge at the door
  • Any room, any size of audience
  • The file, posters and the guide
  • Tell us the date, that's all
  • Genuinely free, not free-then-invoiced
Ask about a date

Ticketed

$60 · or 20% of the door
  • Whichever of the two is lower
  • Same file, posters and guide
  • Keep the rest for your own cause
  • A speaker on video call if you want one
Ask about a date

Institutional

$250 · schools, universities, libraries
  • Perpetual campus access
  • Classroom guide and clip reel
  • Captions and a transcript
  • Invoiced properly for your finance office
Ask about a licence
What you actually need — A screen, a speaker loud enough for the back row, and one person to say a sentence at the start
What gets sent — A file that plays offline, two poster sizes, a discussion guide, and captions in the languages we have
If nobody comes — Eleven people is a good turnout for a first screening and it is enough. Do not measure this against a cinema
If money is taken — Keep it, unless you booked the ticketed licence, in which case the smaller of the two figures is owed and it is trusted rather than audited

Screenings coming up

  • Thu, Aug 27 · 5:30 AM
    Screening and discussion
    📍 The community hall — step-free, back entrance

    Free, no ticket. The film runs 78 minutes and the discussion afterwards is optional and usually about forty.

  • Fri, Sep 11 · 5:30 AM
    Screening with the director
    📍 The town cinema, screen two

    Ticketed, with questions afterwards. The awkward questions are the welcome ones and they get asked every time.

Replace these with your own dates and timezone. Say whether each one is free, and say whether the discussion is optional — both change who turns up.
Ask about a screening
A date and a rough room size is enough. Community screenings get a yes and the file within a day, and nothing about that is a negotiation.

Ask about a screening

"Never" is the most-picked answer and it changes what gets sent rather than whether you get a yes — first-time hosts get a one-page sheet on how the evening actually runs.
© Doc Film — 78 minutes. Anybody can host a screening, and the terms are on the page.

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