Sahar Driver

Film + Strategy + Campaign Design + Social Change

USA

Social movements need powerful stories. But if that is all it took to solve social problems, we wouldn’t have any. Strong and compelling stories that grapple with timely and important issues can benefit from careful planning to ensure the message reaches the right audiences, in the right ways, at the right times.

As a documentary impact strategist, I have helped filmmakers, funders, and movement leaders build strategic partnerships and plans that strengthen their respective projects and contribute to lasting change. I have also conducted research and designed programming to strengthen the field of documentary impact.

My latest work focuses on supporting, resourcing, and connecting people of color led and serving organizations working in nonfiction. You can learn more here: colorcongress.org. Unfortunately that means I am not currently taking on any new clients.

Active Voice 20th Anniversary Interview

February 06, 2021  /  Sahar Driver

Active Voice (now the Active Voice Lab) is my impact and engagement home. It’s the place where I really deepened my commitment to documentary film as the medium through which I could best contribute to the movements I believe in. And it’s the place where I strengthened my capacity to do so, under the mentorship of Ellen Schneider and Shaady Salehi, both powerhouses who I respect and admire and am lucky to call friends.

We just celebrated the 20th Anniversary of Active Voice and I’m honored to have been interviewed for it. If you’re interested in what I learned and what I’m seeing these days, click here.

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