- Doc Memo: Nonfiction Meets Animation, Indonesia's Quest for Truth
POV's daily list of essential reading for the documentary and independent filmmaking community.
- Doc Memo: Refugee Crisis Highlight at Cannes, Understanding VR at MIT Open Documentary Lab
POV's daily list of essential reading for the documentary and independent filmmaking community.
- Mother's Day Streaming: Watch “Me & You”
Watch Me & You, a new animated short from StoryCorps, now streaming on POV.
- Sundance 2014: StoryCorps Dispatches from Park City
StoryCorps dispatches from the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on all things animation & documentary.
- Next on POV: Listening Is an Act of Love: A StoryCorps Special
Listening Is an Act of Love: A StoryCorps Special features six stories from 10 years of StoryCorps. Premieres Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 28, 2013, on PBS stations. Watch online for free starting November 29.
- Coming Soon to POV: Listening Is an Act of Love: A StoryCorps Special
Listening Is an Act of Love: A StoryCorps Special features six stories from 10 years of StoryCorps. Premieres Monday, November 28, 2013, on PBS stations. Watch online for free starting November 29.
- StoryCorps, NPR and POV Among Honorees at the 2013 duPont-Columbia Awards
Last night, StoryCorps, NPR and POV were among 14 honorees at the 2013 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards. The jury honored the three organizations for the "innovative" StoryCorps 9/11 animated shorts.
- Animating Documentaries: A Twitter Chat with Mike Rauch of StoryCorps Animated Shorts
Join the #docchat Twitter chat on Tuesday, August 14, 2012, at 8 PM Eastern. One of the directors of StoryCorps Shorts will answer questions about documentaries and animation.
- POV Films Garner A Record 16 Emmy Nominations!
We are humbled this morning to have received a record 16 nominations in the 33rd News and Documentary Emmy Awards, including four nominations for Best Documentary.
- Anthropomorphize This!
In a series of films that screened at Flaherty NYC, an offshoot of The Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, animator Jim Trainor and artist Nancy Andrews challenged notions about animals on the big screen.
- A Peabody Award for “StoryCorps 9/11”
StoryCorps and NPR Morning Edition's showcase of interviews with victims' relatives and survivors of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks has won a George Foster Peabody Award.
- PBS Online Film Festival: Watch 'Flawed'
Your votes will determine the People's Choice Winner in PBS's first-ever Online Film Festival! In the animated film Flawed, a woman is uneasy about beginning a relationship with a plastic surgeon.
- Watch Valentine's Day Shorts with POV and StoryCorps!
Whether a Valentine's Day junkie or a cynical boycotter, check out real-life love stories from the collection of StoryCorps animated shorts.
- Watch the Newest StoryCorps Short: “To R.P. Salazar, with Love”
Just in time to get all the lovebirds out there ready for Valentine's Day, StoryCorps has released their newest animated short, To R.P. Salazar, with Love - a love story that starts with a simple typo.
- The RSA Animate Series Straddles a Squiggly Line Between Web Video and Documentary
With 40 million views, the combo of RSA's big thinkers and Andrew Park's 'scribing' animation has made for a YouTube sensation, but can we call these videos documentaries?
- Next on POV: 'POV Short Cuts'
POV's 24th season on PBS continues with POV Short Cuts, a one-hour collection of documentary shorts by established and emerging filmmakers. Watch it on the PBS mobile app now, or on TV this Tuesday, August 23, 2011 at 10 PM.
- Doc Soup: Analyzing the Economic Meltdown
Last October, I railed about how there was a dearth of doc filmmakers tackling the current economic meltdown, pointing out that the usually on-the-ball PBS Frontline series wasn’t stepping into the void. Well, they finally answered the call a couple of weeks ago. And boy, did they present a grim picture. I found Frontline’s “Inside […]