18:00
18:00
- Registration
- Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Main Lobby
- 18:00 - 19:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
19:30
19:30
- Digital Diaspora Family Reunion
- Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
- 19:30 - 21:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
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8:00
8:00
- Registration
- Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Main Lobby
- 8:00 - 17:30 | 9 hours 30 minutes
8:15
8:15
- Breaking the Ice
- Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - 1st Floor Conference Room
- 8:15 - 9:15 | 1 hour
9:30
9:30
- Welcome to Getting Real '16
- Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
- 9:30 - 9:45 | 15 minutes
9:45
9:45
- Opening Keynote: Grace Lee
- Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
- 9:45 - 10:15 | 30 minutes
- Keynote
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10:00
10:00
- Secret Screening
- ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 8
- 10:00 - 11:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
10:30
10:30
- The State of Documentary: Where are We? What's Next?
- Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
- 10:30 - 12:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
12:00
12:00
- Lunch
- Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Back Lot
- 12:00 - 13:00 | 1 hour
12:15
12:15
- Asian American Filmmakers Meeting
- The Los Angeles Fire Department Museum and Memorial - Fire Museum
- 12:15 - 13:15 | 1 hour
12:30
12:30
- Here’s What Really Happened – The Hunting Ground
- Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - 2nd Floor Conference Room
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 hour
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13:15
13:15
- Shit Creek: The Hypothetical Paddle Game
- Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
- 13:15 - 14:45 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Audience for Life: A Workshop with Vimeo's Peter Gerard
- Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - 1st Floor Conference Room
- 13:15 - 14:45 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Workshop
13:30
13:30
- Here’s What Really Happened – Audrie & Daisy
- NeueHouse Hollywood - Screening Room
- 13:30 - 14:40 | 1 hour 10 minutes
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- Rapid Fire: Critical Funding Issues
- The Los Angeles Fire Department Museum and Memorial - Fire Museum
- 13:30 - 14:45 | 1 hour 15 minutes
13:45
13:45
- A Conversation with Ezra Edelman
- ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 8
- 13:45 - 15:00 | 1 hour 15 minutes
Ezra Edelman
Participant
15:00
15:00
- Filmmaker-to-Filmmaker: Funding and Artists of Color
- The Los Angeles Fire Department Museum and Memorial - Fire Museum
- 15:00 - 16:00 | 1 hour
- Meeting
- Here’s What Really Happened – Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru
- NeueHouse Hollywood - Screening Room
- 15:00 - 16:10 | 1 hour 10 minutes
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- Painting the Vision Through Music: Composing with Miriam Cutler
- Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - 2nd Floor Conference Room
- 15:00 - 16:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Film Fatales Meetup
- ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 8 Bar
- 15:00 - 16:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- The Sensory Film School with Mark Cousins and Tabitha Jackson
- Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
- 15:00 - 16:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
15:15
15:15
- Facing the Facts
- ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 8
- 15:15 - 16:30 | 1 hour 15 minutes
16:45
16:45
- Keynote: Steve James in Conversation with Neda Ulaby
- Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
- 16:45 - 17:30 | 45 minutes
- Keynote
Steve James
Participant
17:30
17:30
- Getting Real '16 Opening Reception
- W Hollywood - The Loft
- 17:30 - 19:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
19:30
19:30
- Screening of Stevie and Q&A with Steve James and Gordon Quinn
- ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 8
- 19:30 - 21:55 | 2 hours 25 minutes
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8:00
8:00
- Oscar-Qualifying Demystified
- Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - 1st Floor Conference Room
- 8:00 - 9:00 | 1 hour
- Registration
- Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Main Lobby
- 8:00 - 17:00 | 9 hours
9:15
9:15
- When the Lion Learns to Speak: Representation and Agency in Documentary Filmmaking
- Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
- 9:15 - 10:45 | 1 hour 30 minutes
11:00
11:00
- Here's What Really Happened - (T)ERROR
- Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - 2nd Floor Conference Room
- 11:00 - 12:00 | 1 hour
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- VR Doc Summit, Part 1
- Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - 1st Floor Conference Room
- 11:00 - 12:00 | 1 hour
- Meeting
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- Sudden Impact: New Outreach and Engagement Stories
- ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 8
- 11:00 - 12:15 | 1 hour 15 minutes
- A Conversation with Roger Ross Williams and Julie Goldman
- Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
- 11:00 - 12:15 | 1 hour 15 minutes
- Focus on Sustainability, Part 1: Bringing Inter-dependence to Independent Filmmaking
- The Los Angeles Fire Department Museum and Memorial - Fire Museum
- 11:00 - 12:15 | 1 hour 15 minutes
12:15
12:15
- Lunch
- Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Back Lot
- 12:15 - 13:15 | 1 hour
13:00
13:00
- VR Doc Summit, Part 2
- Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - 1st Floor Conference Room
- 13:00 - 14:45 | 1 hour 45 minutes
- Meeting
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13:15
13:15
- Editing Master Class with Sam Pollard
- TBA - TBA
- 13:15 - 16:15 | 3 hours
- Master Class
13:30
13:30
- Simon Says
- ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 8
- 13:30 - 14:30 | 1 hour
- The Observer Effect: Towards a New Documentary Criticism
- NeueHouse Hollywood - Screening Room
- 13:30 - 14:40 | 1 hour 10 minutes
- International Co-Producing: Crossing the Border
- Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
- 13:30 - 14:45 | 1 hour 15 minutes
- Short, Sweet and Online: Making (and making a living making) Short Docs Online
- The Los Angeles Fire Department Museum and Memorial - Fire Museum
- 13:30 - 14:45 | 1 hour 15 minutes
15:00
15:00
- International Co-Producing - Case Study 1: Chuck Norris vs Communism
- Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - 1st Floor Conference Room
- 15:00 - 16:00 | 1 hour
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- Focus on Sustainability, Part 2: What's Public Policy Got to Do With It?
- The Los Angeles Fire Department Museum and Memorial - Fire Museum
- 15:00 - 16:00 | 1 hour
- Visually Speaking 1: Nonfiction Poetics
- NeueHouse Hollywood - Screening Room
- 15:00 - 16:10 | 1 hour 10 minutes
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- Craft of Documentary: Kirsten Johnson & Nels Bangerter
- Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - 2nd Floor Conference Room
- 15:00 - 16:10 | 1 hour 10 minutes
- Producing Our Way into the Future
- ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 8
- 15:00 - 16:15 | 1 hour 15 minutes
- Real Talks Sponsored by Catapult Film Fund
- ArcLight Hollywood - Restaurant
- 15:00 - 16:15 | 1 hour 15 minutes
- Meeting
- Killing the Chicken to Scare the Monkey: Filmmaking in the Time of Censorship
- Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
- 15:00 - 16:15 | 1 hour 15 minutes
16:30
16:30
- Keynote: Raoul Peck in Conversation with Kenneth Turan
- Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
- 16:30 - 17:15 | 45 minutes
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17:15
17:15
- ITVS's 25th Anniversary Cocktail Reception
- Le Jardin - Restaurant & Lounge
- 17:15 - 19:00 | 1 hour 45 minutes
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20:00
20:00
- Adventures and Discoveries in Early Documentaries: Kukan (1941) & Aloha Wanderwell Baker
- Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
- 20:00 - 21:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
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21:45
21:45
- Keynote Conversation: Ava DuVernay and Shola Lynch
- Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
- 21:45 - 22:30 | 45 minutes
Ava DuVernay
Participant
8:00
8:00
- Registration
- Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Main Lobby
- 8:00 - 15:30 | 7 hours 30 minutes
9:00
9:00
- Keynote: Marcia Smith
- Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes
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9:45
9:45
- Global Challenges of Public Broadcasting, Part 1 - Focus on Canada and Europe
- Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
- 9:45 - 10:45 | 1 hour
- Here’s What’s Really Happening – The Force
- Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - 1st Floor Conference Room
- 9:45 - 10:45 | 1 hour
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- From Survive to Thrive: Making a Life in a Limited Budget World
- ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 8
- 9:45 - 10:45 | 1 hour
- Field of Vision: Anatomy of a Short
- The Los Angeles Fire Department Museum and Memorial - Fire Museum
- 9:45 - 10:55 | 1 hour 10 minutes
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- Hungry for Change: Social Impact Strategy Workshop
- Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - 2nd Floor Conference Room
- 9:45 - 11:00 | 1 hour 15 minutes
- Workshop
11:00
11:00
- International Co-Producing - Case Study 5: Mr. Gaga
- Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - 1st Floor Conference Room
- 11:00 - 12:00 | 1 hour
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- Global Challenges of Public Broadcasting, Part 2 - Focus on the US
- Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
- 11:00 - 12:00 | 1 hour
- Real Talks Sponsored by Catapult Film Fund
- ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 8 Bar
- 11:00 - 12:15 | 1 hour 15 minutes
- Meeting
- Fair Use? You Be the Judge!
- ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 8
- 11:00 - 12:15 | 1 hour 15 minutes
11:05
11:05
- Field of Vision: Working with Researchers at Getting Real
- The Los Angeles Fire Department Museum and Memorial - Fire Museum
- 11:05 - 12:15 | 1 hour 10 minutes
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11:15
11:15
- International Co-Producing - Case Study 4: Free to Run
- Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - 2nd Floor Conference Room
- 11:15 - 12:15 | 1 hour
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12:15
12:15
- Lunch
- Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Back Lot
- 12:15 - 13:15 | 1 hour
- Indie Caucus Meetup
- Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - 1st Floor Conference Room
- 12:15 - 13:15 | 1 hour
13:30
13:30
- International Co-Producing - Case Study 2: Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt
- Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - 2nd Floor Conference Room
- 13:30 - 14:30 | 1 hour
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- International Co-Producing - Case Study 6: BUGS
- Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - 1st Floor Conference Room
- 13:30 - 14:30 | 1 hour
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- Commercial Broadcasters Roundtable
- Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
- 13:30 - 14:30 | 1 hour
- Here's What Really Happened - The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
- NeueHouse Hollywood - Screening Room
- 13:30 - 14:40 | 1 hour 10 minutes
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- Toward a More Perfect Union
- The Los Angeles Fire Department Museum and Memorial - Fire Museum
- 13:30 - 14:45 | 1 hour 15 minutes
- Film Festivals On Trial
- ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 8
- 13:30 - 14:45 | 1 hour 15 minutes
14:45
14:45
- Here's What Really Happened - Trapped
- Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - 2nd Floor Conference Room
- 14:45 - 15:45 | 1 hour
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- International Co-Producing - Case Study 3: Shadow World
- Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - 1st Floor Conference Room
- 14:45 - 15:45 | 1 hour
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- Not Fade Away: Preserving Your Work in the 21st Century
- Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
- 14:45 - 16:00 | 1 hour 15 minutes
15:00
15:00
- Tabitha Talks
- ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 8
- 15:00 - 16:00 | 1 hour
- Visually Speaking 2: Activating the Archive
- NeueHouse Hollywood - Screening Room
- 15:00 - 16:10 | 1 hour 10 minutes
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- So, Your Film Didn't Get Into Sundance (and Even if it Did): Navigating the New Distribution Landscape
- The Los Angeles Fire Department Museum and Memorial - Fire Museum
- 15:00 - 16:15 | 1 hour 15 minutes
16:30
16:30
- Closing Keynote Conversation: Laura Poitras and James Risen
- Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
- 16:30 - 17:15 | 45 minutes
Laura Poitras
Participant
James Risen
Participant
17:15
17:15
- The Wrap Up
- Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
- 17:15 - 17:45 | 30 minutes
19:30
19:30
- StoryWorks: The Overnighters - An Original Storytelling Experience
- Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
- 19:30 - 21:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes