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Film Festivals
  • Sundance 2014: StoryCorps Dispatches from Park City
    StoryCorps dispatches from the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on all things animation & documentary.
    POV Staff 6 min read January 24, 2014 Documentary News Comments
  • Flaherty NYC's Winter/Spring 2014 Series Explores the Culture of Consumption
    Curator Jason Fox talks to POV about the films, video, video game, and augmented reality works in Flaherty NYC's Winter/Spring 2014 Series on our current culture of consumption
    Steve Rickinson 8 min read January 17, 2014 Documentary News Comments
  • New York Film Festival Documentary Highlights
    Doc Soup Man Tom Roston lists five bold and ambitious documentary projects presenting at the upcoming New York Film Festival.
    Tom Roston 3 min read September 23, 2013 Doc Soup Comments
  • 6 Intentionally Provocative Questions Intended to Stir Up Toronto Film Festival Documentary Programmer Thom Powers
    Doc Soup Man asks six intentionally provocative questions about this year's slate to Thom Powers, documentary programmer at the Toronto International Film Festival.
    Tom Roston 4 min read September 5, 2013 Doc Soup Comments
  • The Big Screen: All Brooklyn Film, All The Time
    Heather Freundenthal and Joseph Shahadi give POV Eastman Fellow Alfonso Francois a closer look at the process behind Art of Brooklyn Film Festival's The Big Screen series.
    Alfonso Francois 5 min read August 17, 2013 Documentary News Comments
  • Brooklyn Raised: Rooftop Films & the Spirit of Brooklyn Summer
    Brooklyn-raised POV Eastman Fellow Kendra Williams reflects on her Rooftop Films experience and talks with program director Dan Nuxoll about another season of showing films in high places.
    Kendra Williams 14 min read August 16, 2013 Documentary News Comments
  • A Call for Documentary Critics
    Doc Soup Man Tom Roston says film criticism is in decline just as documentary is reaching new heights in popularity. Where are the critics who can recognize what's great -- and what's not -- in a documentary?
    Tom Roston 5 min read April 29, 2013 Doc Soup Comments
  • Five Top Takeaways from Tribeca Film Institute's Interactive Day
    Liz Nord provides five major takeaways from Tribeca Film Institute's 2013 Interactive Day, providing insights for filmmakers who are exploring the digital space for storytelling.
    Liz Nord 6 min read April 24, 2013 Documentary News Comments
  • Tribeca Film Festival 2013: “Big Men” and “Flex is Kings”
    Tom Roston reviews documentaries "Big Men" and "Flex is Kings" at the Tribeca Film Festival (April 17-28, 2013).
    Tom Roston 3 min read April 19, 2013 Doc Soup Comments
  • Five Questions with Hugues Sweeney of The National Film Board of Canada
    NFB producer Hugues Sweeney tells Liz Nord about Journal of Insomnia, an installation and web documentary featured at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival's Storyscapes exhibit in New York City this weekend.
    Liz Nord 3 min read April 19, 2013 Documentary News Comments
  • The Two Guccis of Tribeca 2013
    Doc Soup Man Tom Roston contemplates conflicts of interest in festival funding after learning that the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival will be screening "The Director," a documentary with a subject who is also a sponsor.
    Tom Roston 4 min read March 11, 2013 Doc Soup Comments
  • Flaherty NYC’s Spring 2013 Series Discovers Forgotten Memories
    Curator Jeronimo Rodriguez tells POV about the documentaries in Flaherty NYC's Spring 2013 Series and how he chose films that encourage discovery of forgotten memories.
    POV Blogger 6 min read March 4, 2013 Documentary News Comments
  • My Favorite Documentaries from True/False Film Festival 2013
    Tom Roston recaps the Midwestern film festival True/False, where he saw a slate of inspiring documentaries including The Act of Killing, Stories We Tell, These Birds Walk, Pandora's Promise and My Favorite Picture of You.
    Tom Roston 4 min read March 4, 2013 Doc Soup Comments
  • True/False Film Fest Stands Out in Missouri
    True/False celebrates its tenth year, beginning February 28. Tom Roston spoke with co-founder Paul Sturtz about heading up a festival that strikes its own path.
    Tom Roston 4 min read February 26, 2013 Doc Soup Comments
  • Ambulante 2013 Begins
    The festival kicks off tonight, February 7, and tours 11 states in Mexico for what promises to be a mammoth season for Ambulante.
    POV Staff 4 min read February 7, 2013 Documentary News Comments
  • Sundance 2013: Senior Programmer David Courier
    Part 1 of 2: Tom Roston interviews Sundance Film Festival Senior Programmers David Courier and Caroline Libresco about documentaries to watch out for at this year's festival, which begins today.
    Tom Roston 5 min read January 18, 2013 Doc Soup Comments
  • Sundance 2013: R.J. Cutler's The World According to Dick Cheney
    Tom Roston is surprised to learn The World According to Dick Cheney directed by R.J. Cutler - screening at Sundance 2013 - isn't quite the hatchet job he thought it would be.
    Tom Roston 3 min read January 16, 2013 Doc Soup Comments
  • Small Town, Big Ideas
    The Princeton Environmental Film Festival is back, and this year's opening weekend features two hard-hitting events that will explore the impact of Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy.
    POV Staff 2 min read January 15, 2013 POV Films Blog Comments

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