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  • Kickstarter: Tips from Three Successful 2012 Doc Campaigns
    If you're thinking about fundraising for your documentary on Kickstarter, here are some words of wisdom from three successful campaigns in 2012.
    Emma Dessau 5 min read January 22, 2013 Documentary News Comments
  • 18 Days in Egypt Co-Creator Jigar Mehta
    Journalist-turned-web-documentarian Jigar Mehta tells POV about treating documentary filmmaking like a startup company, hiring crowdsourcing evangelists (with help from Kickstarter) and re-inventing the participatory documentary on the fly.
    Anne Zhou 12 min read May 21, 2012 Documentary News Comments
  • Documentary Year in Review Countdown #10: 'Life In A Day,' a Documentary Culled from 80,000 Filmmakers, Premieres Online
    POV is counting down the top documentary stories of 2011 on New Year's Eve 2012.
    Emily Thomas 1 min read December 31, 2011 Documentary News Comments
  • How Prosumer Cameras, Apple and YouTube Have Changed Documentary Storytelling in the 10 Years Since 9/11
    Edward J. Delaney of DocumentaryTech looks at how far digital technology has come in the last 10 years, from the Naudet brothers' 9/11 to the crowdsourced #18DaysInEgypt.
    Edward J. Delaney 5 min read September 8, 2011 Documentary News Comments
  • Could a $79 iPhone Attachment Revolutionize Documentary Filmmaking?
    With Kogeto's panorama-making iPhone attachment "Dot" expected to ship in September, CEO Jeff Glasse discusses how 360° video tools like his, tapped into GPS and social networks, could change personal filmmaking.
    Ashlin Aronin 7 min read August 5, 2011 Documentary News Comments