Welcome Remarks, Opening Night Performance by Vinay Shukla

20 July

Fireside Chat: Set Hernandez and Leonard Cortana

How We Resist: The Filmmakers United

If You Build It: Distribution and Exhibition

Past the Panic: What Really Matters in AI and Documentary

Recut, Reframe: Archival Documentaries

The Possibility of More: A Conversation With Tikkun Olam Productions

Workshop: AI Tools for Documentary Production

Workshop: Budgeting in Troubled Times—Maximize Your Resources and Finish Your Film

Workshop: The Public Television Puzzle

Workshop: Who Do You See? Casting as Recognition

21 July

Beyond Festivals and Streamers: How Films Find Audiences, Unlock Values, and Drive Impact

By Our Reckoning: Transitional Justice

Follow the Money: New Economic Models

Ground Level: Public Interest, Local Trust

Keynote: Petna Katondolo

Terms of Engagement: Learning From Coalition Politics

What We Can Learn From Palestinian Documentary Today

Workshop: Loading Your Trojan Horse

22 July

Keynote: Mandy Chang

What's the Deal? Distribution Game Show

Workshop: Boots on the Ground

From Island to Hub: Taiwan’s Evolving Documentary Ecosystem and the Making of an Asian Documentary Catalyst

Beyond the Hustle: Building Sustainable Careers

State of the Business

23 July

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Getting Real is a biennial conference designed for and by documentary practitioners and focused on the business and art of nonfiction storytelling. The sixth edition of Getting Real will celebrate a decade of what is now the largest peer-to-peer gathering of its kind in North America.

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