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  • Four Ways to Explore Women's History In Your Community
    Here are four great ways to use POV's films to start a dialogue around Women's History Month in your community.
    POV Staff 3 min read February 10, 2016 POV Films Blog Comments
  • New to Watch: Four Women Make Movies Films from the POV Archives
    To celebrate our multi-year partnership, POV is streaming four critically acclaimed WMM films from our archive from January 11, 2016 through April 10, 2016.
    POV Staff 4 min read January 11, 2016 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Let Me Tell You About My Affliction
    When I Walk, a documentary about filmmaker Jason DaSilva's struggle with multiple sclerosis, falls into a powerfully intimate category of documentary in which the director tells the story of his or her own affliction.
    Tom Roston 2 min read June 23, 2014 Doc Soup Comments
  • Parenting from Both Sides of the Camera
    On a motherless, motherful Mother's Day, filmmaker Judith Helfand reflects on what she has learned on both sides of the camera from her mother Florence (of Healthy Baby Girl fame), who died this past September.
    Judith Helfand 11 min read May 11, 2014 Documentary News Comments
  • Where Are the First-Person Women Documentarians?
    With Tiffany Shlain's personal documentary Connected wrapping up its theatrical run, Doc Soup Man Tom Roston asks why the best known first-person documentarians are men.
    Tom Roston 3 min read December 15, 2011 Doc Soup Comments