STORY TO ACTION is SMI’s flagship program where we work with Canadian documentary films and their filmmaking teams to create impact strategies, build partnerships, and organize screenings that create measurable progress in the issues featured in their films. If you are interesting in helping us organize a screening of one or more of these films for your community, please contact Impact Director Anthony Truong Swan at anthony@storymoneyimpact.com.
Known for her triumphant saves and advocating for equality in soccer, Canada Women’s goalkeeper, Stephanie Labbé, sits alongside legends of the game. But off the field, her journey explores the challenges of navigating mental health and its impacts on both daily life and performance. Shut Out is a film about how a girl from Alberta competed her way to the top, changed the game for generations of women players to come, and the high cost of being the best.
For this film, our campaign aims to provide mental health education to young athletes and their parents, and empower competitive athletes and coaches to prioritize and provide access to mental health supports.
Please contact us if you are involved with, or can introduce us to:
Recreational soccer leagues, soccer clubs, or athletic organizations (youth or adult)
Coaching associations or memberships
Mental health organizations
Women in sports organizations
From photography and beatboxing to poetry and martial arts, Toronto's "Good Guise" collective spark conversations around healthy masculinity through art. Artists in the collective welcome others to join in their mission of finding radical alternatives to shame and punishment for men who have harmed, or been harmed. How can a group of racialised men confront their privilege and power, while also honouring the hurt that society punishes them for feeling? How can we move away from punishment towards healing?
Our campaign will be creating healthy spaces to discuss masculinity, and empowering men to create those spaces for themselves.
Please contact us if you are involved with, or can introduce us to:
Men’s health, men’s mental health, or men’s rights organizations
Organizations made up predominantly of men
Community spaces open to creating men’s programming
Yintah means “land.” Spanning more than a decade, Yintah follows the Wet’suwet’en Nation’s fight for sovereignty, following Howilhkat Freda Huson and Sleydo’ Molly Wickham as their nation reoccupies and protects their unceded ancestral lands from some of the largest fossil fuel companies on Earth.
This ongoing fight spotlights the Canadian government’s role in sidestepping the 1997 Supreme Court decision, one that affirmed Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs’ authority over their ancestral territories. The government seized Indigenous land at gunpoint for the purpose of resource extraction, forcing Wet’suwet’en leaders to put their bodies on the line, building barricades to keep the companies out. For the Wet’suwet’en, their very future is at stake.
This film will be traveling to First Nations across Turtle Island, where we hope to deepen relationships between Wet’suwet’en and other nations, while also amplifying diverse local Indigenous issues related to environmental stewardship and Indigenous sovereignty at our screenings.
Please contact us if you are involved with, or can introduce us to:
First Nations communities looking to strengthen relationship with the We’suwet’en
Band governments
Indigenous-led environmental organizations
