Upcoming Events
April 28 at 2:00pm CET / 8am EST: FIAF / IFTA (International Federation of Film Archives)
Panel: GenAI and Archives
Virtual, Info here
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April 29 & 30, various times: Hot Docs
Panel: What the heck is an Archival Producer anyway?
Panel: Ethical Use of AI in Documentaries
Ontario, Canada
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April 29 at 7pm PT - Film Independent
Tech Talk: Independent Filmmaking and AI
Los Angeles, CA
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April 30 at 1pm ET: Gotham Film & Television
Essentials Workshop: Rights Clearance for Documentarians,
Virtual, More info here
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May 6 at 11am PT/ 2pm ET - AMIA/APA Interest Group.
APA and AMIA have created a joint Interest Group to bring stakeholders together to discuss issues that GenAI presents for archives. Members of AMIA and APA are invited to participate.
Virtual, Join Zoom meeting
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May 14 at 10amPT / 1pm ET: Associação Brasileira de Cinematografia's Semana ABC
Panel: Documentary, Ethics, and Artificial Intelligence
Virtual, Info here
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May 15 at 5 - 7pm ET: Gotham Film & Television
Panel: "Non-fiction film in the age of Generative AI: Guidance and tools with the APA"
Virtual, More info to follow​
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Past Events
April 2: Creative MarketPlace
Panel: Archive Producers meet the challenge of demanding projects
New York, NY
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March 19: COMtalks (virtual)
Integrating AI with Film and Television
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March 16: East Doc Platform
Archives, Ethics & AI
Prague, Czech Republic
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March 8: The Light House at SXSW
Lightning Talk: "Protecting Futures by Protecting the Past: GenAI and Documentary Storytelling"
Austin, TX
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​February 27: Based on a True Story and True/False Film Festival
Panel on AI in Documentary
​Columbia, MO
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February 12: Documentary Producers Alliance Speaker Series (virtual)
Panel: "The APA Presents: Working With Archival Producers"
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​February 8: Video Consortium's Future of Nonfiction Video 2025 at Columbia University
Idea Share: Ethical AI and filmmaking in practice: the robots are coming for our docs — or are they?
New York, NY​​
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January 25: Sundance Film Festival, Indiewire Panel at the Drop Box Studio
Panel: "How Filmmakers Can Ethically & Artistically Use AI.”
Park City, UT
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2024
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December 17: GenAI in Documentary Filmmaking
In person workshop, co-sponsored by BAVC, Catapult Film Fund & ITVS
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December 4 - 7 Association for Moving Image Archivists conference
December 4: Keynote​
December 5: Best Practices for Use of Generative AI in Archival Documentaries
December 6: Roundtable: GenAI and Archives: Understanding the Implications
Wilwaukee, WI​​​
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November 17 at 11am: DOC NYC
Editing Day Panel: Generative AI and Documentaries
New York, NY
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​​November 14: HRTS Unscripted: The Impact of Generative AI on NonFiction
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November 7 at 11:20am: Double Exposure Film Festival & Forum
Panel: Generative AI: Toward Best Practices in Doc Production / Buy a Ticket
Washington, DC
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October 22: Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival and Forum (Hot Springs, AR)
Panel: The Evolving Relationship Between AI and Documentary Storytelling
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October 16: Documentary Producers Alliance speaker series (virtual)
Open to DPA & APA members
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October 15: MIT Open Documentary Lab & Co-Creation Studio (virtual)
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​September 28 at 12pm: FootageFest (Los Angeles, CA)
Guidelines Proposal For Using A.I. Presented by APA
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September 13: Camden Film Festival!​ (Camden, ME)
Points North Forum: Nonfiction in the Age of Generative AI ​
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September 19: Video Consortium (Brooklyn, NY)
VC Presents: Discussions on AI
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July 12, 2024: Virtual talk hosted by the D-Word
Archival Storytelling in the Age of Generative AI
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June 25, 2024: Sunnyside of the Doc (Virtual)
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June 14, 2024: DC/Dox Film Festival (Washington, DC)
Treasure Maps – Finding Story in the Archives
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May 1, 2024: DOC NYC Pro (Virtual)
AI, GAI and the Archive
April 16, 2024: Getting Real (Los Angeles, CA)
Breakout Session: Standards for Generative AI Use in Documentary
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March 19, 2024: Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)
PROTECTING THE ARCHIVAL IMAGE IN THE AGE OF A.I.
February 27, 2024: Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (Virtual)
The Craft of Documentary: The Role of the Archival Producer
February 20, 2024: Big Sky Documentary Film Festival (Missoula, MT)
AI Transparency with the Archival Producers Alliance
February 2, 2024: Producers Guild of America (Virtual)
The State of Generative AI in Non-Fiction Programming'
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2023
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September 29, 2023: FootageFest (Los Angeles, CA)
Artificial Intelligence: The Bad and the Ugly