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  • Doc Memo: Film on Disney's First Black Animator, 25th Anniversary of Madonna Doc
    POV's daily list of essential reading for the documentary and independent filmmaking community.
    POV Staff 2 min read August 26, 2016 Documentary News Comments
  • Doc Memo: Academy Embraces Diversity, Media Unites To Highlight Homeless Crisis
    POV's daily list of essential reading for the documentary and independent filmmaking community.
    POV Staff 2 min read June 30, 2016 Documentary News Comments
  • Could More Docs Be Box Office Contenders With Larger Distribution?
    Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, The Imposter, and Searching for Sugar Man have had impressive earnings at the box office recently, which begs the question: could these have been big box office contenders with a larger distribution and marketing campaign?
    Tom Roston 3 min read July 30, 2012 Doc Soup Comments
  • Disneynature's Chimpanzee
    The Hunger Games film to see this past weekend was not, as it turns out, called Hunger Games. It was the latest Disneynature documentary, Chimpanzee.
    Tom Roston 3 min read April 24, 2012 Doc Soup Comments
  • Doc Soup: Coincidence or Codes in Nature Docs?
    First, there was March of the Penguins, that outrageously successful 2005 nature doc about the life and times of penguins. Because the film’s only stars are penguins, it occurred to me that only human being who shares the, er, bill with them is the film’s narrator, Morgan Freeman. And then that was that. And then […]
    Tom Roston 2 min read April 20, 2009 Doc Soup Comments