Programme A-Z

Turning established podcasts into television shows presents ever more exciting development opportunities.

Dive into the realm of AI to discover how ChatGPT prompts can help to shape your pitches.

The Alternate Realities exhibition showcases innovative non-fiction and immersive documentary in all forms. Taking place at Site Gallery, the exhibition is free and open to all throughout the festival dates.

The Alternate Realities Summit is an opportunity to come together with nonfiction media makers of all kinds to expand our conception of what it means to engage technology, old and new, to document and transform reality.

Selected artists as part of Alternate Realities Talents have the opportunity to connect with creatives and organisations focused on using digital technologies to experiment and play with non-fiction boundaries.

A wide-ranging programme highlighting cutting-edge technology and envelope-pushing creativity. Visit SITE Gallery Studio 1 to immerse yourself in the Virtual Reality experiences.

Join us to celebrate this year's creative and immersive programme of Alternate Realities.

Selected entry-level production professionals will take part in Amplify: Production Talent meetings to connect with UK production company executives in the factual/documentary TV sector.

The conversation after the screening of Yintah will look at the intersection of capitalism, climate crisis and Indigenous rights, and how it connects with other films in the programme.

Behind the rising popularity of archive-driven feature docs and factual series, filmmakers often struggle for access to the archival materials needed to tell untold stories of conflict, injustice and underrepresented communities.

After the screening of Witnesses. Captivity that kills, a group of experts, including the team of the Ukraine War Archive project will discuss the reliance on eyewitness testimonies, the ethical considerations of archival storage, and the potential of AI in authenticating history.

Celebrate this year's jury award winners, pitch recipients, and attending filmmakers.

Join Director of Unscripted Kate Phillips for a discussion about how the BBC is backing British storytelling across its documentary films.

The session, aimed at freelancers, will reveal how the filmmakers captured the powerful memories and lived experiences of some of the last remaining 'Hibakusha', the only people left on earth to have survived an atomic bomb.

Author, journalist, explorer and presenter Simon Reeve throws light on his remarkable career, which has taken him around the world and through various danger zones.