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  • Vote For These SXSW 2013 Panels About Documentaries, Social Issues and Public Media!
    Have a say in which panels make it to the film/interactive conference at SXSW 2013 in Austin, Texas, next March.
    POV Staff 4 min read September 3, 2012 Documentary News Comments
  • Game Design and Making Docs: There's More in Common Than You Might Think
    At first glance, game design — even game design with a social change mission — seems unrelated to the world of documentary work. But last week's Game for Change Festival revealed that socially-minded game designers and documentarians are grappling with many of the same issues.
    Emma Miller 5 min read June 25, 2012 Documentary News Comments
  • Doc Soup: A Filmmaker Reports from TED 2010
    The recently concluded TED (technology, entertainment, design) conference once again proved to be on the cutting edge of the intellectual-cultural vanguard. It draws such an impressive list of hot-shots (this year’s included Bill Gates, Valerie Plame, James Cameron, and David Byrne) — it’s kind of dizzying. I wondered what this year’s TED offered the doc […]
    Tom Roston 5 min read February 18, 2010 Doc Soup Comments
  • Weekly Roundup
    This week, we catch up with Rocky from Bronx Princess, get ready for the Cinema Eye Awards, read through lots of year-end and decade-end lists of best docs and more. CNN’s “Inside Africa” aired a segment on Bronx Princess (POV 2009) and talked to protagonist Rocky Otoo and her mother, Auntie Yaa. The film follows […]
    Ruiyan Xu 2 min read January 7, 2010 Documentary News Comments