Creative Impact Experience
Campeche
A short-form documentary experience for creatives, students and purpose-led storytellers
Mexico
The Creative Impact Experience is a shorter Planetary Productions program designed for people who want to contribute to pre-existing documentary projects in a focused, real-world environment.
Set in Campeche and Tepakán, Mexico, this short program invites participants to step into active productions that need creative support, fresh energy and final polish. It is an opportunity to gain hands-on experience outside the classroom while helping amplify stories connected to art, culture, women’s empowerment, Mayan heritage and community-led change.
Dates: 26 September – 4 October
Location: Campeche, Mexico
Cost: Custom Quote
Projects: Pottery in Maya and Galería Elementos
Outcome: Contribute to the completion and creative polish of real social-impact documentary projects.
The Location:
Campeche is a colourful coastal city on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, known for its colonial architecture, creative spirit and deep cultural heritage.
With its pastel buildings, old city walls, vibrant local art scene and connection to Mayan history, Campeche offers an inspiring environment for documentary storytelling. It is a place where culture, community and creativity are deeply woven into everyday life, making it a powerful setting for stories about art, identity, tradition, women’s empowerment and cultural preservation.
For the Creative Impact Experience, participants will be based in Campeche while engaging with documentary projects connected to both the city and surrounding communities, including the Mayan ceramic traditions of Tepakán and the centrally located artistic studio of Galería Elementos.
Who The Program Is For:
This short program is perfect for:
Film, media and communications students
Emerging filmmakers, editors and producers
Photographers and videographers
Translators and bilingual creatives
Marketing and social media storytellers
Artists, educators and cultural researchers
Heart-led creatives wanting real-world experience
People passionate about social impact storytelling
Film Crew Roles:
Participants will step into real production roles across the documentary process, including:
Editor
Cinematographer
Director
Behind-the-Scenes Photographer
Behind-the-Scenes Videographer
Each production will be supported by a wider creative and cultural team, including floating crew members, local translators, cultural guides and professional mentors.
Additional cultural roles may be included depending on the documentary topic like a Mayan Translator for the Tepakán Documentary.
Current Documentary Projects:
Pottery in Maya
Mayan Ceramics - Preserving culture through art
Tepakán - Mexico
A documentary exploring traditional Mayan ceramics in the village of Tepakán, where local artists are working to preserve culture, creativity and intergenerational knowledge through pottery.
Participants may support translation, additional interviews, cultural research, editing, behind-the-scenes content and story refinement.
Program Outcomes:
Translate the original interviews from Mayan into Spanish
Get interview with historian for Mayan Art
Highlight the stories protagonist in their everyday lifes
Polish current interviews, footage & archives
Galería Elementos
Erika Biancas - Artist for Women's Empowerment
Campeche - Mexico
A documentary following artist, curator and gallery founder Erika Biancas, whose work supports local artists while creating one of the few independent spaces for visual art in Campeche.
Participants may support additional filming, secondary interviews, exhibition coverage, editing, BTS content and promotional storytelling.
Program Outcomes:
Capture Erika's Art Classes
Get 1-2 secondary subject interviews
Capture Erika's Exhibitions
Polish current interviews, footage & archives
Built Into the Experience
What You'll Receive:
Short-form documentary mentorship and creative guidance
Hands-on contribution to real documentary projects
Local accommodation and on-location support
Translation and cultural guidance
Production and editing support
Opportunities in filming, editing, photography, marketing and research
Cultural experiences connected to the stories being told
Community screening, creative showcase or final project presentation
Program Outcomes:
By the end of the Creative Impact Experience, participants will have contributed to a real social-impact documentary project while gaining practical experience in cross-cultural storytelling, production workflows, creative collaboration and ethical documentary practice.
This experience is designed to help participants build confidence, develop their creative voice and understand how storytelling can honour communities, preserve culture and amplify people creating positive change.
Not Included:
The program does not include:
Flights
Travel insurance
Visas
Daily meals, aside from selected welcome and farewell dinners, food tours and group experiences
Join a Story Already in Motion:
The Creative Impact Experience is for people who want to do more than observe. It is for those who want to contribute, collaborate and help shape meaningful stories into something ready to be shared with the world.
Our goal is to create documentaries with depth, purpose and festival potential — while helping the next generation of storytellers develop the skills, awareness and confidence to tell stories that matter.
Learn
Documentary storytelling, interviewing, cinematography, editing and ethical filmmaking.
Create
Produce a real-world documentary alongside a collaborative international crew.
Connect
Work directly with local changemakers, community leaders, local and international storytellers.
Explore
Experience a new culture through meaningful immersion beyond traditional tourism.
Grow
Develop confidence, leadership, interviewing skills, creative problem-solving, cultural intelligence and professional resilience.
Share
Screen your documentary with the community and showcase your work to a wider audience.
Continue
Join a global alumni network to share films, exchange ideas, build skills, and collaborate on future storytelling projects.
Our Process
How we craft our Documentaries
