How AI is reshaping documentary filmmaking today.
Join Anna Giralt Gris and Jorge Caballero, co-founders of Barcelona-based Artefacto, as they reveal the practical tools, workflows, and editorial choices behind their recent projects. Using concrete case studies, they will tackle such urgent questions for documentary makers as:
— What can AI do for archive work, research, restoration, transcription, and searching across large volumes of material? An overview of tools and approaches Artefacto uses in its own practice, projected live: semantic search over hundreds of hours of footage without prior tagging, modular platforms for querying corpora of films and funding records, and other operations that change what research can mean at the development stage.
— How is AI working in pre-production and active production: translation, subtitling, voice-over, dubbing? Examples drawn from Artefacto productions and from the wider documentary field — footage as forensic evidence, AI in active co-production, voice work with consent frameworks, and the small daily decisions that shape what AI ends up doing on a film.
— What are the legal and ethical stakes: rights, transparency, energy footprint? A walk through some IP litigations, and the energy and water cost of generative AI in audiovisual production — with the open questions each one raises for documentary work.
Expect actionable insights, public documentation, and Artefacto’s guiding principles during the session, followed by a Q&A session.
Participants:
Anna Giralt Gris, Jorge Caballero
Anna Giralt Gris is co-founder and CEO of Artefacto, a Barcelona-based research and production studio focused on AI-driven methodologies and new narrative models. Her work has been selected at TIFF, NYFF, IFFR, CPH:DOX, SXSW, and IDFA, and she has presented her research on AI and cinema at San Sebastián, Cannes Marché du Film, IFFR, Sheffield DocFest, and the Goethe-Institut, among others. She teaches at UPF, ESCAC, and UAB, and her latest project, Membrana, was a finalist for the Lumen Prize 2025.
Jorge Caballero holds a Ph.D. cum laude in Cinema and Artificial Intelligence from Pompeu Fabra University and co-directs the Master's in Creative AI for Cinema & Digital Storytelling at UAB. As co-founder of Artefacto and GusanoFilms, his films and interactive works have premiered at TIFF, NYFF, Rotterdam, IDFA, HotDocs, SXSW, and Visions du Réel, with support from Sundance and Tribeca. He has twice received Colombia's National Documentary Award (Bagatela, Nacer) and was featured in Variety's 10 Producers to Watch. He currently serves on the IDFA Bertha Fund selection committee. His current work focuses on iterative methodologies, AI-assisted creative processes, and the development of open tools and frameworks for documentary practice.
