Upcoming Events
March 17 at 2:00pm - 3:30pm ET: AI + Documentary Working Group - Sign up to join here.
Ongoing series hosted by Co-Creation Studio at MIT Open Doc Lab and Witness).
(Virtual)
April 14 at 2:00pm - 3:30pm ET: AI + Documentary Working Group - Sign up to join here.
Ongoing series hosted by Co-Creation Studio at MIT Open Doc Lab and Witness).
(Virtual)
May 5 at 2:00pm - 3:30pm ET: AI + Documentary Working Group - Sign up to join here.
Ongoing series hosted by Co-Creation Studio at MIT Open Doc Lab and Witness).
(Virtual)
Past Events
2025
February 17 at 2:00pm - 3:30pm ET: AI + Documentary Working Group - Sign up to join here.
Ongoing series hosted by Co-Creation Studio at MIT Open Doc Lab and Witness).
(Virtual)
February 16: Panel about Generative AI - Doc Shop at Big Sky Documentary Film Festival
APA Member Eugen Braunig with represent APA
Missoula, MT
February 7: Future of Non-Fiction Video hosted by Video Consortium
Day-long convening at Columbia University
New York, NY
December 9: AI + Documentary Working Group - Sign up for info here.
Ongoing series hosted by Co-Creation Studio at MIT Open Doc Lab and Witness).
(Virtual)
December 6 - 7: Atlanta Film Society
Finding Your Compass: A Documentary Ethics and Accountability Workshop
Atlanta, GA
December 3 - 5: Association for Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) Conference
Panels about GenAI and Archives, Local TV News Preservation initiative, & Round Tables
Baltimore, MD
November 25: AI + Documentary Working Group - Sign up for info here.
Ongoing series hosted by Co-Creation Studio at MIT Open Doc Lab and Witness).
(Virtual)
November 21 at 12:00pm ET: Webinar with Open Copyright Education Advisory Network (OCEAN)
Creating with AI: Copyright Issues Related to Authorship, Authenticity, and Preservation for AI-assisted Works
(Virtual)
November 19 at 1pm ET / 10am PT: BAVC Media & Independent Film & Media Arts Group (IMAG)
Generative AI and the Future of Media Arts: A Fieldwide Conversation
Registration link coming soon
(Virtual)
November 15 at 10:00am: IDFA
Panel: Industry Talk: Who's Watching Whom - Documentary, AI and Ownership of the Image
Amsterdam, NL
November 14: DOC NYC at 3:30pm
Panel: Whose Voice Is It Anyway? AI, Authenticity, and the Application Process (with Ax Mina)
New York, NY
October 28: AI + Documentary Working Group - Sign up for info here.
Ongoing series hosted by Co-Creation Studio at MIT Open Doc Lab and Witness).
(Virtual)
October 17: Archivist Round Table (A.R.T.) Annual Symposium at the Center for Brooklyn History
Symposium theme: "What is Past is Prologue: The Future of Memory"
Panel: Where Have All the Archives Gone? The State of Local TV News in NYC
Brooklyn, NY
October 14: Best Practices for Use of Generative AI in Documentaries at CUNY Graduate Center
More information for CUNY students here
October 9: Film & AI Summit
Panel: AI Accountability in Documentary Practice
(Virtual)
September 26 - 28: Uniondocs Workshop
APA Co-Director Stephanie Jenkins leads a 3-day workshop titled
"Yesterday's News, Tomorrow's Cinema: The Afterlife of Historical Images"
Queens, NY
September 25- 27: FootageFest
Panel about GenAI and Archives
Los Angeles, CA
September 20: Video Consortium presents "Press Play Chesapeake Bay"
Panel on Generative AI, presented by Talia Rosen
College Park, MD
September 12: Camden International Film Festival (CIFF)
Panel: Nonfiction in the Age of Generative AI, Part 2
Panel: Who Gets the Archive?
With funding provided by the LEF Foundation
Camden, ME
August 7 at 12:00pm Central Time: AI Literacy in GLAM-Expert Panel
Hosted by Archivists of the Houston Area [virtual]
More info here.
August 4, 2025: Authenticity and the Archive in the Generative AI Era
Visible Evidence
August 2 at 1:00pm: Asian American International Film Festival
Panel about Archival Producing
New York, NY
July 25, 2025: Archival Footage in the Generative AI Era
University Film and Video Association
June 13, 14, & 15: DC/Dox
Panel: “Reality Check: Memory in the Making”
Panel: "REALITY CHECK: How to Work with an Archival Producer"
Panel: "REALITY CHECK: Documentary in the Age of AI"
(Washington, DC)
June 13: Sundance Collab (virtual)
Panel: Documentary, Ethics, and Artificial Intelligence
APA Impact & Engagement Consultant, AX Mina presented the APA GenAI Case studies.
May 21 at 10amPT / 1pmET Sundance Collab (virtual)
Advisor Studio: Navigating Generative AI with the Archival Producers Alliance Tool Kit
May 15 at 5 - 7pm ET: Gotham Film & Television (virtual)
Panel: "Non-fiction film in the age of Generative AI: Guidance and tools with the APA"
May 14 at 10amPT / 1pm ET: Associação Brasileira de Cinematografia's Semana ABC (virtual)
Panel: Documentary, Ethics, and Artificial Intelligence
April 30 at 1pm ET: Gotham Film & Television (virtual)
Essentials Workshop: Rights Clearance for Documentarians,
April 29 & 30, various times: Hot Docs
Hot Take: What the heck is an Archival Producer anyway?
Panel: Ethical Use of AI in Documentaries
Toronto, Canada
April 29 at 7pm PT - Film Independent
Tech Talk: Independent Filmmaking and AI
Los Angeles, CA
April 28 at 2:00pm CET / 8am EST: FIAF / IFTA (International Federation of Film Archives)
Panel: GenAI and Archives
Virtual, Info here
April 2: Creative MarketPlace
Panel: Archive Producers meet the challenge of demanding projects
New York, NY
March 19: COMtalks (virtual)
Integrating AI with Film and Television
March 16: East Doc Platform
Archives, Ethics & AI
Prague, Czech Republic
March 8: The Light House at SXSW
Lightning Talk: "Protecting Futures by Protecting the Past: GenAI and Documentary Storytelling"
Austin, TX
February 27: Based on a True Story and True/False Film Festival
Panel on AI in Documentary
Columbia, MO
February 12: Documentary Producers Alliance Speaker Series (virtual)
Panel: "The APA Presents: Working With Archival Producers"
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
January 25: Sundance Film Festival, Indiewire Panel at the Drop Box Studio
Panel: "How Filmmakers Can Ethically & Artistically Use AI.”
Park City, UT
2024
December 17: GenAI in Documentary Filmmaking
In person workshop, co-sponsored by BAVC, Catapult Film Fund & ITVS
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
November 17 at 11am: DOC NYC
Editing Day Panel: Generative AI and Documentaries
New York, NY
November 14: HRTS Unscripted: The Impact of Generative AI on NonFiction
November 7 at 11:20am: Double Exposure Film Festival & Forum
Panel: Generative AI: Toward Best Practices in Doc Production / Buy a Ticket
Washington, DC
October 22: Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival and Forum (Hot Springs, AR)
Panel: The Evolving Relationship Between AI and Documentary Storytelling
October 16: Documentary Producers Alliance speaker series (virtual)
Open to DPA & APA members
October 15: MIT Open Documentary Lab & Co-Creation Studio (virtual)
September 28 at 12pm: FootageFest (Los Angeles, CA)
Guidelines Proposal For Using A.I. Presented by APA
September 13: Camden Film Festival! (Camden, ME)
Points North Forum: Nonfiction in the Age of Generative AI
September 19: Video Consortium (Brooklyn, NY)
VC Presents: Discussions on AI
July 12, 2024: Virtual talk hosted by the D-Word
Archival Storytelling in the Age of Generative AI
June 25, 2024: Sunnyside of the Doc (Virtual)
June 14, 2024: DC/Dox Film Festival (Washington, DC)
Treasure Maps – Finding Story in the Archives
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
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'
2023
September 29, 2023: FootageFest (Los Angeles, CA)
Artificial Intelligence: The Bad and the Ugly