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  • Doc Memo: Nonfiction Meets Animation, Indonesia's Quest for Truth
    POV's daily list of essential reading for the documentary and independent filmmaking community.
    POV Staff 3 min read June 27, 2016 Documentary News Comments
  • 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.
    POV Staff 3 min read May 6, 2016 Documentary News Comments
  • Mother's Day Streaming: Watch “Me & You”
    Watch Me & You, a new animated short from StoryCorps, now streaming on POV.
    POV Staff 1 min read May 11, 2014 POV Films Blog Comments
  • 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
  • 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.
    POV Staff 1 min read November 25, 2013 POV Films Blog Comments
  • 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.
    POV Staff 1 min read November 19, 2013 POV Films Blog Comments
  • 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.
    POV Staff 2 min read January 23, 2013 POV Films Blog Comments
  • 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 Staff 1 min read August 10, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • 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.
    POV Staff 2 min read July 12, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • 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.
    Kapish Singla 5 min read April 12, 2012 Documentary News Comments
  • 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.
    POV Staff 1 min read April 4, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • 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.
    POV Staff 1 min read April 3, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • 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.
    POV Staff 1 min read February 14, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • 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.
    POV Staff 1 min read January 26, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • 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?
    Edward J. Delaney 5 min read December 21, 2011 Documentary News Comments
  • 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.
    Alva French 3 min read August 19, 2011 Documentary News Comments
  • 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 […]
    Tom Roston 2 min read March 2, 2009 Doc Soup Comments