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Reality Check Forum 2026 / Masterclass

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A Masterclass

By choice or circumstance, today’s creators increasingly wear multiple hats — serving as directors, producers, writers, editors, fundraisers (and sometimes even funders), impact strategists, and creative collaborators, often simultaneously.

In this master class, two multi-hyphenate creators reflect on the realities of building and sustaining a creative career over time in a rapidly changing industry. The conversation will explore how artists move between roles across projects and phases of production, balancing creative, logistical, and entrepreneurial demands while continuing to evolve across decades of work. The discussion will also consider moving between shorts and features, documentary and fiction, and different modes of storytelling while adapting to changing funding models, technologies, audiences, and distribution landscapes.

Grounded largely in documentary practice yet extending beyond it, the session offers an intimate look at artistic longevity, reinvention, collaboration, and the sustaining of a life in storytelling across forms and industries.

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Katy Chevigny

Director / Producer

Katy Chevigny is an award-winning filmmaker and co-founder of Big Mouth Productions. She has produced and directed more than a dozen documentary features and series.

Her latest feature, THE EASY KIND, follows a Nashville singer-songwriter. Most recently, she won an Emmy Award for directing two episodes of HOME, the A24 and Apple TV+ documentary series about innovative architecture, filmed in the Netherlands and France.

With Marilyn Ness, Chevigny produced CAMP COURAGE (dir. Max Lowe), a 2023 documentary short acquired by Netflix, as well as the acclaimed documentaries BECOMING (dir. Nadia Hallgren) and DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD (dir. Kirsten Johnson). She also co-directed (with Ross Kauffman) E-TEAM, which premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, and directed one of the storylines in Kartemquin Films’ HARD EARNED, winner of a 2016 Alfred I. duPont Award.

Her work has been distributed by PBS, NBC, Netflix, Apple TV+, HBO, Arte/ZDF, VPRO, and Channel 4, and has screened in theaters and at film festivals around the world.

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Eden Wurmfeld

Director, Producer

Eden Wurmfeld is an Emmy-nominated and Oscar-shortlisted producer, director, and member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences whose work spans acclaimed fiction and documentary films. Most recently, she directed and produced the Oscar-shortlisted documentary short CLASSROOM 4, winner of Best Documentary at Aspen Shortsfest and LA Shorts. Her producing credits include WHAT COMES AROUND (TIFF 2022), SAVING CAPITALISM (Netflix), CHASING CHILDHOOD, and THE BIG SCARY “S” WORD. Earlier films include the indie hits KISSING JESSICA STEIN, SWINGERS, and PUCCINI FOR BEGINNERS. Eden was a founding member of the Documentary Producers Alliance and served on their interim board for 2 years. She is currently a production partner at Lismore Road, a non-profit social impact production company dedicated to supporting diverse stories across all media formats, primarily nonfiction film.
For more info about Eden, visit edenwurmfeld.com.