It’s time for a trade conference for producers of documentaries that is designed by producers.

If you’ve been in the business for the past decade or so, you may well agree that the limited focus of many of the conferences offered to us is disappointing at best. And, why do we have to schlep to the East Coast when most of the people we want to network with are right here in Los Angeles?

As technological innovations continue to reduce production costs and ever growing programming options fuel the need for even more niche programming, the nonfiction production industry is evolving.

Shouldn’t the events that serve to facilitate the industry evolve as well to meet the industry’s changing needs?

From LATV Fest to IDA and AFM to the New York Festivals, it seems that over the years, most of these organizations are putting on one-...