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  • Upcoming POV Screenings
    See films from POV's upcoming season, including DocYard's screening of Herman's House, followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Angad Singh Bhalla, and register for the Harlem premiere of Homegoings at the historic Apollo Theater!
    POV Staff 1 min read June 14, 2013 POV Films Blog Comments
  • What a POV Internship Meant to Me
    Former Intern Aubrey Gallegos shares her experiences behind the scenes of POV's 2011 season.
    Aubrey Gallegos 4 min read December 13, 2011 Documentary News Comments
  • Full Frame 2010: The Once and Future Festival
    I’m back from my jaunt down to Full Frame, and grateful to return to the carcinogenic particulate matter of NYC rather than suffering the yellow plague of pollen that’s all over everything in Durham. And this post may be a day late, dollar short, whatever — still, here’s my take on Full Frame 2010. The […]
    Yance Ford 5 min read April 15, 2010 Documentary News Comments
  • POV's Office Potluck for Food, Inc.
    We’ve been encouraging viewers around the country to host a potluck for the PBS broadcast of Food, Inc. on April 21st, so we certainly couldn’t get away with not hosting our own office potluck for the film! Despite our busy calendars (the potluck got rescheduled a few times due to traveling schedules, Passover, everyone’s insistence […]
    Ruiyan Xu 6 min read April 8, 2010 Documentary News Comments
  • True/False 2010
    The 2010 True/False Film Festival got started on Friday with a day full of screenings and the usual March March parade down the main drag of Columbia, MO.   True/False is five this year and like any youngster it’s coming into its own — getting taller and more rambunctious faster than you had realized. Lead […]
    Yance Ford 1 min read February 27, 2010 Documentary News Comments
  • Docs in India: the Asian Documentary Forum
    POV’s Associate Producer Andrew Catauro writes in with a report from Docedge ’10, the Asian Documentary Forum. Just a couple of weeks ago, the Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute hosted the 7th edition of Docedge, an international documentary workshop in Kolkata, India. I was invited to sit on a panel with 12 international broadcasters […]
    Andrew Catauro 2 min read February 2, 2010 Documentary News Comments
  • Sundance 2010: Wrapping Up
    POV’s series producer Yance Ford is at the Sundance Film Festival. She has been blogging and twittering from Park City this week. I’m back from Sundance, wrinkled from the red-eye and in full possession of a Sundance sore throat. Right now it’s snowing in New York, and if you squint hard, Gotham looks a little […]
    Yance Ford 4 min read January 28, 2010 Documentary News Comments
  • Sundance Update: Meetings, Screenings, Panels and Parties in Park City
    POV’s series producer Yance Ford is at the Sundance Film Festival. She’s blogging and twittering from Park City throughout the week. Well, the infamous Sundance wall reared up and smacked me on Tuesday. Keeping up with the meetings, screenings, panels and parties here in Park City is an exhausting (though fun) job, but once in […]
    Yance Ford 3 min read January 27, 2010 Documentary News Comments
  • Sundance Update: Finding Some Calm in the Middle of Snow and Chaos
    POV’s series producer Yance Ford is at the Sundance Film Festival. She’ll be blogging and twittering from Park City throughout the week. Good morning from Park City! It’s early here and folks are gearing up for another day of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Wondering what the weather (and weather forecaster) is like here in […]
    Yance Ford 1 min read January 26, 2010 Documentary News Comments
  • Sundance Update: Names, Films, and Gossip Girls
    POV’s series producer Yance Ford is at the Sundance Film Festival. She’ll be blogging and twittering from Park City throughout the week. Day four of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival kicked off with a 9 a.m. screening of The Oath by Laura Poitras, followed by the premiere of My Perestroika by Robin Hessman. Both films […]
    Yance Ford 2 min read January 25, 2010 Documentary News Comments
  • Greetings from Sundance 2010
    POV’s series producer Yance Ford is at the Sundance Film Festival. She’ll be blogging and twittering from Park City throughout the week. I’ve been looking forward to Sundance 2010 … never mind that my own procrastination and late-night laundry nearly wrecked my travel plans. But as a wise and witty producer pointed out to me […]
    Yance Ford 4 min read January 25, 2010 Documentary News Comments
  • Interning at POV
    Alba Jaramillo is a recent graduate of the New College of Florida with a bachelor’s degree in Liberal Arts–Humanities and a POV intern. She writes about the intern site visit she coordinated for her fellow interns in the Arts and Business Council program. This summer, I was one of 11 college students chosen to participate […]
    POV Staff 4 min read August 14, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • Links and Events – June 2009
    The Human Rights Watch International Film Festival returns to The Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater starting June 11. The festival opens with a special presentation of The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court by Paco de Onís, Peter Kinoy and Pamela Yates (POV 2009) on June 12 which will be […]
    Ruiyan Xu 3 min read June 10, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • Queen for a Night at the Cinema Eye Awards
    POV series producer Yance Ford attended the Cinema Eye Awards on Sunday. The Cinema Eye Honors were held on Sunday at the stunning Times Center on West 41st Street in Manhattan. Believe it or not, you might have seen the Times Center, or at least the building that it’s situated in, before: last summer when […]
    Yance Ford 3 min read March 31, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • Making a Difference in the Classroom
    Picture this: You’re a high school social studies teacher, trying to raise issues of social injustice in a way that resonates with your students. How do you get them to connect with an issue in such a way that the ideas behind your lessons stay with them beyond the midterm? A documentary might just do […]
    David Nanasi 3 min read March 16, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • Inauguration '09: I Was There. And So Were You.
    POV interactive director Theresa Riley was in Washington D.C. last week for the presidential inauguration. She tells us about watching — and documenting — the inauguration from the ground. A few days after the election in November, Thursday the 6th to be precise, I called up my congresswoman’s D.C. office and asked to be put […]
    theresa 6 min read January 27, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • POV's Youth Views: Get Out of the Screening Room…
    It often surprises people that a “TV show” like POV has a project like Youth Views, which works with youth, educators, and youth-serving organizations to use documentary film as a tool for youth engagement. Irene Villaseñor, POV’s Youth Views Manager, tells us more about what she does, and how to get films “out of the […]
    Irene Villasenor 2 min read June 4, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • Join POV at the NYC Grassroots Media Conference
    Irene Villaseñor is POV’s Youth Views Manager. Youth Views is a project that works with youth, educators and youth-serving organizations to use POV films as a tool for youth engagement. Irene will be presenting on two workshops at the 2008 NYC Grassroots Media Conference next week. She writes in to tell us a little bit […]
    Irene Villasenor 3 min read February 29, 2008 Documentary News Comments

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