In her keynote address, Jemma Desai will question the role of integrity in the documentary field. James Baldwin understood the integrity of artists as an analogue for the integrity of being human.
Getting Real
Never in human history has the global circulation of images happened at the speed and scale it is now. When cameras were invented over 200 years ago, they required people to operate them. Besides machine-operated surveillance cameras and drones, we now see images that are generated by AI in the absence of both human bodies and minds.
Thanks for getting real with us at our sixth biennial Getting Real conference! 1500+ documentary practitioners attended in person in Los Angeles and virtually from 40+ countries.
Whether we are unemployed creatives, overwhelmed freelancers, or underpaid employees, it can often seem like everyone else has figured it out. Social media is a constant stream of people announcing new jobs, festival screenings, and prestigious grants and awards. Yet more often than not, the filmmaker who had the big premiere, received all the accolades, and even successfully sold their film is still struggling to get by, just like the rest of us. So how are filmmakers actually making a living?
In this Fireside Chat, IDA’s Executive Director Dominic Asmall Willsdon will draw Burnett into a wide-ranging conversation about his work, which includes a new documentary in production.
Kirsten Johnson has been a cinematographer and director since the 1980s. Her acclaimed films as a director include The Above (short, 2015)
Over the years, Jemma Desai’s writing, programming, research, and practice have intersected with institutional critique. Through investigating film
An interview with two organizers of the Archival Producers Alliance on how AI will shake up the nature of archival footage For the first decades of
"It's about time there was an organization just for us. An organization whose sole purpose is ‘to encourage and to honor the documentary arts and
This year’s Getting Real conference was marked by a constant debate around ethical choices in documentary filmmaking. Every aspect of the process was