Fourth Act

Connecting Stories into Movements

Fourth Act is a premium impact consultancy that empowers the filmmaking community to embed impact into the storytelling process, from development and production to sales and release.

By transforming powerful stories into movements, we give audiences a Fourth Act: the opportunity to engage with and act on the stories that entertain, captivate and inspire them — increasing reach and driving meaningful change at scale.

What We Do

We offer end-to-end services that help filmmakers, distributors and philanthropic organizations amplify the cultural impact of their content at every stage of the creative lifecycle.

Content Advisement

From development through production and marketing, we bring deep issue-based insight and research-backed considerations that preserve the film’s creative integrity, while ensuring audiences see themselves in the story and are moved to rally around it.

Audience Campaigns

We partner with distributors and producers to design audience engagement strategies and social change campaigns that expand the audience and drive collective action.

Narrative Change Initiatives

We help advocacy leaders and philanthropic organizations to develop strategic initiatives and resources that shift public narrative and create conditions for change.

Recent Projects & Partners

Poster for Wicked for Good
Poster for The Voice of Hind Rajab
Poster for Out of My Mind
Poster for Judas and the Black Messiah
Poster for Roma
Poster for RBG
Poster for An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
Poster for Spotlight

Who We Are

Fourth Act was co-founded by Nicole Starr and David Linde, with Nicole leading the organization day to day and David serving as an advisor. Alongside a team of trusted collaborators, Fourth Act brings decades of combined experience using storytelling to accelerate progress on the world’s most important issues.

Our approach aligns narrative film, documentary and television content with audience engagement and impact goals, to elevate a cultural conversation and drive measurable impact.

Join Us

Whether you’re in development, ready to build a campaign or looking for a strategic partner, we’d love to connect. Reach out at:

Nicole Starr on LinkedIn