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  • Doc Memo: Seminal Designer Gets Doc, Burlesque Through a Feminist Lens
    POV's daily list of essential reading for the documentary and independent filmmaking community.
    POV Staff 3 min read June 22, 2016 Documentary News Comments
  • Cinema Eye Honors Announces 2011 Nominees
    The 2011 Cinema Eye Honors nominees were just announced last week, and we’re thrilled to find that a few POV films are on the list. Lixin Fan‘s Last Train Home, which will be broacast on POV in 2011, has been nominated for seven awards, including Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking, Direction, Production, Cinematography, Editing, […]
    Catherine Jhee 1 min read November 8, 2010 Documentary News Comments
  • Weekly Roundup: Cinema Eye, Sundance and More
    This week, we take a look back at the Cinema Eye Honors, a look ahead to the Sundance Film Festival and give POV fans a second look at The Way We Get By. The Cinema Eye Honors took place last Friday, and by all accounts, it was a brilliant evening! Doc Soup Man Tom Roston […]
    Ruiyan Xu 3 min read January 21, 2010 Documentary News Comments
  • A POV Intern Plays Mad Libs with Albert Maysles at the Cinema Eye Honors
    POV intern Alice Rhee is a sophomore at Oberlin College. This January, Alice is watching lots of documentaries and working with POV’s Interactive department on POV’s Web presence. She reports back from last week’s Cinema Eye Honors ceremony. Can you find a more fascinating group of people than documentary filmmakers? They are socially conscious, inspiring […]
    POV Guest Blogger 3 min read January 20, 2010 Documentary News Comments
  • Doc Soup: The Glittering Docerati at the Cinema Eye Honors
    So, how about those Golden Globes! What, who cares? That’s right — all of you doc lovers know that the real big night in documentary film wasn’t in L.A. on Sunday (the Hollywood Foreign Press doesn’t even have a nonfiction filmmaking category) — it was last Friday, when the third annual Cinema Eye Honors took […]
    Tom Roston 4 min read January 19, 2010 Doc Soup Comments
  • Doc Soup: The 10 Greatest Moments in Documentary Film, Part 2
    Finally — the post that you’ve all been waiting for: my top 5 greatest doc moments. You’ll note that POV’s Ruiyan wins an honorable mention for beating me to the punch in the comments section from last week, with her admiration for Harlan County, USA. What a moment, eh? I agree, and had ranked it […]
    Tom Roston 3 min read April 6, 2009 Doc Soup Comments
  • Queen for a Night at the Cinema Eye Awards
    POV series producer Yance Ford attended the Cinema Eye Awards on Sunday. The Cinema Eye Honors were held on Sunday at the stunning Times Center on West 41st Street in Manhattan. Believe it or not, you might have seen the Times Center, or at least the building that it’s situated in, before: last summer when […]
    Yance Ford 3 min read March 31, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • I've Got My Eyes on You
    POV series producer Yance Ford will be presenting one of the awards at the Cinema Eye Honors ceremony this weekend. The second annual Cinema Eye Honors ceremony will take place this Sunday, March 29th at the Times Center in Manhattan. Hatched from the brain of filmmaker AJ Schnack, Cinema Eye sprouted up last year in […]
    Yance Ford 2 min read March 27, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • 'The Betrayal' Nominated for an Academy Award
    Academy Award nominations were announced this morning, and some of the most critically acclaimed documentaries of the year took their rightful place on the list of nominees: The Betrayal (Nerakhoon) by Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath (POV 2009) Encounters at the End of the World by Werner Herzog The Garden by Scott Hamilton Kennedy Man […]
    Ruiyan Xu 2 min read January 22, 2009 Documentary News Comments