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  • How They Made “The Aatsinki Season”
    We asked filmmaker Jessica Oreck and interactive developers Mike Knowlton and Hal Seigel how they generated the ideas that became the interactive project and how they managed their collaboration.
    Emma Dessau 7 min read January 8, 2013 Documentary News Comments
  • POV Hackathon: Five Documentary Prototypes From a Weekend of Hacking
    View the prototypes from POV Hackathon: Participate in an online debate with film characters, browse a documentary cookbook, find new meaning in numbers from news headlines, be moved by audio storytelling powered by live news and events, and explore the multimedia branches of a film from 1984.
    POV Staff 4 min read August 14, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • POV Hackathon: Day Two: From Proposal to Prototype
    For Day Two of the POV Hackathon, reinventing the documentary for the web meant embracing a "minimum viable product" strategy in time for a 7 PM screening.
    POV Staff 8 min read August 13, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • POV Hackathon: Day One: Five Approaches to the Web Documentary from Hackathon Participants
    Observations from Day One of the POV Hackathon.
    POV Staff 8 min read August 12, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • POV Hackathon: Know Your Hackers, “Aatsinski: The Story of Arctic Cowboys”
    The POV Hackathon team members working on the Aatsinki: The Story of Arctic Cowboys project include experienced media makers drawn from the worlds of linear documentary and new forms of interactive storytelling.
    POV Staff 6 min read August 7, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • POV Hackathon: Five Projects Aiming to Re-Invent the Documentary for the Web
    Find out more about the projects selected for POV's first hackathon, which will take place in New York City the weekend of August 11-12, 2012.
    POV Staff 3 min read August 2, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments