Collaboration is at the heart of everything we do. Document collaborates with individuals and organisations throughout Scotland who are working with the issues raised in the films we screen. The films serve as advocacy tools to open up discussion. Since our inception we’ve actively sought to include individuals and organisations whose involvement with the festival would be mutually beneficial by offering them a public forum to explore those issues.

Central to this is the conviction that collaborators should have creative input in helping determine the unique content and direction of the festival each year within its established structure. This is what helps the Document Festival to grow, to continually renew itself, and to remain pertinent and current in its concerns. Organisations that have participated in the Document Festival since Document 1, include:

• Glasgow School of Art
• GARA
• Black History Month

• The Big Step, Children’s Rights Service & Residential Services at GCC 

• The Fostering Network

• Unity Centre

• No Borders Scotland

• Diversity Films

• Camcorder Guerrillas

• Rape Crisis Scotland

• Scottish Refugee Council

• Centre for Human Rights Law, Strathclyde University

• Scottish Human Rights Commission

• Strathclyde University Applied Educational Research Centre

• University of the West of Scotland

• Amnesty International

• Dancehouse

• Edinburgh University

• Glasgow University

• Variant Magazine

• The Poverty Alliance

• StreetLevel Photoworks

• Tallstorey’s – part of The Red Road Project
• Glasgow Women’s Library
• Fast Forward Play
• GOMA – sh(OUT) exhibition

• OurStory Scotland
• LGBT Youth Scotland
• Radical Independent Bookfare
• Electron Club
• Voluntary Services Overseas