Every year at every major documentary market, someone convenes a panel on the state of the business, where the news is roughly the same: consolidation is tightening, commissioning slots are shrinking, and the path to an audience runs through fewer and fewer gatekeepers. But documentary audiences are not shrinking. But a whole world—revenue models, audience development, and creative independence—exists for documentaries outside the broadcaster-commissioner pipeline. This conversation brings together experts from different corners of the documentary universe to whom questions of ownership, direct audience relationships, and long-term sustainability are not theoretical. The goal is not a diagnosis of decline, but a harder question: what are we actually measuring, and what is the true upside? Panelists to be announced

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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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