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