At Film & Campaign, we believe in the power of documentary film. We create innovative outreach campaigns for your films, grounded in our own background as documentary filmmakers.
We're an international team based in Scotland — and we work with clients all over the world.
Interested? Here's how we can help your project:
Film & Campaign organises specialist outreach campaigns for documentaries, creates partnerships and builds communities. We organise large-scale crowd-powered events to bring independent films to previously untapped audiences. We develop professional, content-driven websites, write promotional copy and know how to build a following on social media long before your film has even premiered. Every campaign is unique. Here are some examples.Promoting ANOTHER PARADISE at Sheffield Doc/Fest
A Germany-wide cinema-on-demand campaign
Developing an outreach plan for ONCE AURORA
Want to power up your documentary project so that it functions like a mass movement? NationBuilder software may be better-known as a political campaigning tool, but our founder and certified NationBuilder Architect, Ben Kempas, has years of expertise helping documentary producers, distributors and exhibitors utilise it to design, build and run your own community organising system. Learn more about our NationBuilder projects here.Fathers Network Scotland
Website for SITAR / Meridian Hill Pictures, Washington D.C.
Website for Anemon, Athens / EDN, Copenhagen
We can bring the power of documentary to your campaign. Ben's film projects are all connected by one theme – they’re about people trying to achieve change. We can also help you get your message across, whether we’re providing a camera crew or managing and marketing a complete production.Four women and the state of Scottish independence
Campaign for the largest dam removal project ever
Taking on East Germany's regime and paying the ultimate price
Ben Kempas is a documentary campaigner and occasional filmmaker. This is where he and his colleagues at Film & Campaign share their thoughts – from personal stories to portraits of our clients.
In the world of independent documentary filmmaking, it’s not every day that you get to compete with major blockbuster titles. Remarkably, this is something that a project powered by Film & Campaign has now achieved.
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In the second part of our mini-series looking at the largest campaign we’ve ever worked on, we look at the challenge of building Germany’s first ever cinema-on-demand campaign from the ground up.
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This is the first in a three-part series about our biggest campaign to date, around German documentary DIE KINDER DER UTOPIE (Children of Utopia). Over the coming weeks, we’ll be providing behind-the-scenes insights into a campaign that we’re excited, proud, and even a little nervous about.
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Join us for an outreach workshop or for a session at an industry event. Based first in Munich and now in Edinburgh, Ben has been involved in filmmaking and campaigning around the world. Here's a selection of upcoming and recent activities.Filmkraft Rogaland arranges an industry day in connection with SHORT in Kinokino. Ben Kempas is known in the European documentary scene for creating great outreach campaigns for films, including projects in Norway.
Final workshop for producers who took part in the Nordoc sessions
For the third year running, Ben will host an outreach clinic on Monday an Tuesday afternoons where all Nordisk Forum participants are free to pop in for a talk about organising outreach campaigns, building communities and taking control of distribution.