Workshop: AI Tools for Documentary Production Member Only

Instead of relying solely on closed, off-the-shelf AI products, a growing number of filmmakers are creating their own applications and integrating AI in their filmmaking on their own terms. Imagine: a forensic reconstruction algorithm designed to turn public footage into analyzable evidence; a computational reader for massive data analysis, a semantic search engine that allows a director to retrieve archival and rush material by meaning rather than by tag; and a voice system to assist a protagonist with specific needs. Each of the aforementioned tools was, in fact, built by the filmmakers at Artefacto Films—a Barcelona-based research and production studio—with an AI coding assistant, a practice now widely known as "vibecoding," in which plain speech is transformed into executable code. Their small library of internal tools sits beside the development desk, the camera, and the edit as essential parts of their trade—and perhaps it could be part of yours, too.

This workshop will open with an overview of how filmmakers are applying AI to nonfiction today, and how documentarians can use AI to create research, investigative, and workflow tools that work for us, by us. Artefacto Films' Jorge Caballero and Anna Giralt Gris will walk us through one of their applications and demonstrate how it was created. Attendees will leave with a concrete sense of what it means to build, not just use, AI inside a documentary practice.

Moderator: Sergio Lobo-Navia (Getting Real '26)
Facilitators: Jorge Caballero and Anna Giralt Gris (Artefacto Films)

July 21, 2026, Los Angeles