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  • Doc Memo: Webby Award Winners Announced, Tribeca Film Festival Recap
    POV's daily list of essential reading for the documentary and independent filmmaking community.
    POV Staff 3 min read April 26, 2016 Documentary News Comments
  • When Commercials and Political Propaganda Become Indistinguishable
    A handful of new (non-political) commercials are finding their way into that ugly area between fact, fiction and advocacy in this election season.
    Tom Roston 4 min read October 26, 2012 Doc Soup Comments
  • “2016: Obama's America”: The Most Offensively Funny Movie of the Year
    Doc Soup Man Tom Rostron recently saw Dinesh D’Souza’s film, 2016: Obama's America, an unintentionally hilarious denunciation of President Barack Obama.
    Tom Roston 5 min read September 5, 2012 Doc Soup Comments
  • Obama Enters the 2012 Election with 'The Road We've Traveled,' a Documentary by Davis Guggenheim
    Election-year ads are often naïve and clumsy, dogmatic and jingoistic. David Guggenheim’s 17-minute The Road We've Traveled, created for President Obama's re-election campaign, is quite a different animal.
    Tom Roston 3 min read March 20, 2012 Doc Soup Comments
  • Video Slideshow: Presidential Documentaries Released in Election Years
    View video from some of the most influential and controversial documentaries released in the midst of U.S. presidential campaigns.
    Kapish Singla 11 min read March 16, 2012 Documentary News Comments
  • Doc Soup: “By the People” vs. “The War Room”
    Hey, have you had a chance to catch By the People, the HBO documentary about Barack Obama‘s presidential campaign that began airing this month? Yeah, me too. Did you shed some tears? Uh-huh. Did you marvel at the momentousness of that time? Yep. And isn’t it fantastic to have that all on record, so we […]
    Tom Roston 2 min read November 16, 2009 Doc Soup Comments
  • An Update to “Street Fight”
    There’s a lot going on New Jersey these days: a heated race for governor, a money laundering and public corruption scandal that saw the arrest of 44 people in July, and a bumper crop of cranberries. The city of Newark, N.J., is also back in the spotlight as the focus of a new Sundance Channel […]
    POV Guest Blogger 3 min read October 20, 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