Leveraging storytelling, humanity, and innovation to build a better world
Docutribe transforms the power of storytelling, filmmaking, and technology to create social good for all.
We work with an individual.
Then their community.
We grow from there.
We support emerging storytellers by teaching them storytelling, filmmaking, and production capacity to share their unique stories with audiences on national and international levels.
We provide filmmaker fellows with the tools to ignite and sustain change. In addition to supplying cameras and technology, we have the capacity to train our filmmakers in human-centered innovation, leadership, community engagement, and the ethics of journalism and documentary filmmaking.
500+
students taught globally
75+
professionals contribute to our pool of experts
30+
fellows
Ukrainian soldiers returning home circa 2024, a screen capture from one of the students’ film.
Featured Project
Our work in Ukraine is bringing storytelling and filmmaking skills to the front lines.
Three separate departments of Chernivtsi National University, multiple high schools (lyceums) and local organizations are collaborating with us to democratize filmmaking, honor the voices of Ukraine and support the broader community. We are bringing our experience and methodologies into classrooms to give students and faculty new tools for expressing what its like to live day to day in a country at war.
Our Projects
CHOKE Project
Told through the eyes of three Black activists, CHOKE is a short film on the intersection of racial and climate justice, mainly set in May 2020 surrounding the murder of George Floyd, featuring three activists who believe "without racial justice there is no climate justice."
Trauma-Informed Filmmaking Program
With a global mental health pandemic and a shortage of mental health providers, how can we equip our community leaders with tools that will support emotional resiliency and well-being?
The Story of Place: Empowering Communities through Filmmaking
Story of Place uses filmmaking to empower local communities and their leadership to ignite community transformation.
Story of Igiugig: Native Sovereignty in Alaska
This film supports while a sovereign Native people explore and plan for the future, as told through three short chapters: Nunaput (Our Homelands); Capricaraq (Persistence), Pinarqut (Possibility).
Featured Films
“I want to be able to talk about solutions. If you’re just reporting on the problems, people only know how to speak about and live with the problems. If you offer storytelling as a problem-solving tool, people will begin to talk about the solution, and then develop and draft the needed envisioned change. At that point they can begin to act in the spoken solution.”
— Cecily Tyler, Docutribe founder
From the Writers’ Corner
