Finding Your Compass: Documentary Ethics Workshop

Finding Your Compass: Documentary Ethics Workshop is a two-day interactive professional development event for filmmakers at all career stages, offering concrete tools, resources and community support to strengthen practice. Explore multiple ethical frameworks addressing responsibility to crews and participants, past and present, during filmmaking and beyond; participant compensation; AI-image risks; contemporary documentary dilemmas and case studies; and your projects in facilitated small groups and peer discussions, seeking guidance rather than simple answers. Schedule (2025): Saturday, 12/6, 10:00 AM–2:30 PM, Plaza Theatre; 2:45–4:45 PM, The Supermarket; 5:00–6:00 PM, Happy Hour, Sweet Auburn; Sunday, 12/7, 10:00 AM–12:45 PM, Plaza; 1:45–4:00 PM, Supermarket; venues in Atlanta, GA 30306, United States: Plaza—1049 Ponce De Leon Avenue Northeast, Poncey-Highland; Supermarket—638 N Highland Ave NE; Sweet Auburn—656 N Highland Ave NE.

Hosted with: Psychedelic Writers Guild