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  • Final Cut Pro X: Filmmakers Remain Skeptical
    We asked you, our blog-reading filmmakers, for thoughts about Final Cut Pro X, the latest edition of Apple's popular editing software, and how you're making the decision to upgrade, switch or stick with what you've got.
    Alva French 3 min read August 31, 2011 Documentary News Comments
  • Links and Events
    Coverage of the fantastic Kim Longinotto (Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go, POV 2009) retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art included articles by Cynthia Fuchs at Pop Matters, who writes, “Longinotto’s documentaries explore moral and emotional intricacies, the shifting relations between individuals and communities,” and indieWire, which called Kim “England’s answer to Frederick Wiseman.” […]
    Ruiyan Xu 1 min read May 20, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • Five Most Popular Web Features of the Year
    As we prepare to ring in the new year, we thought we’d take this opportunity to look back on the Web features that POV viewers liked most and to create a year-end list of our own. In 2008, the most popular features on the POV website were the ones that followed the characters featured in […]
    Ruiyan Xu 3 min read December 31, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • Doc Soup: What Can We Learn About an Election From Docs?
    Independent journalist Tom Roston checks in and writes about the world of documentaries in his column, Doc Soup. Well, it’s election week and certainly in my lifetime, it’s never felt like more was stake. I know a lot of people are already getting ready to celebrate an Obama victory, but I’m not. Nothing, in my […]
    Tom Roston 3 min read November 3, 2008 Doc Soup Comments
  • Watch 'Election Day' on the POV website
    Next Tuesday, November 4, 2008, millions of voters across America will take to the polls and cast their ballots to determine the next president of the United States. When you’re in the voting booth, and the curtains are closed, you’ll be making an important contribution to American democracy and making your voice heard. But are […]
    Ruiyan Xu 3 min read October 28, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • Host an 'Election Day' House Party
    Our friends at Arts Engine, the non-profit media organization that produced Katy Chevigny‘s Election Day have just written in to let us know that as the election approaches, they’re stepping up their campaign to make sure that people get to exercise their right to vote this year and encouraging people to host viewing parties. Read […]
    Eliza Licht 2 min read October 16, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • POV Interactive Receives a Parents' Choice Award
    We were excited to find out that POV Interactive has been named a Parents’ Choice Recommended award winner. We’ve always known that POV is a great resource for kids who want to learn more about a particular subject through our documentaries and our website, but it’s always nice to get a pat on the back, […]
    Ruiyan Xu 3 min read September 3, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • To a Successful News Hunt
    The results of our News Hunt for good journalism on the 2008 elections are in! From July 1 – 14, POV and PBS Engage joined forces with NewsTrust.net, a nonprofit social news site devoted to finding good journalism, to review current news stories about the 2008 elections with a focus on the voting process from […]
    Catherine Jhee 1 min read July 17, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • Election Day's Katy Chevigny Answers Viewer Questions
    Katy Chevigny is the director of Election Day. After the film aired on POV, viewers wrote in with questions for Katy on the POV Blog. Read on as she answers questions about Nader and Gore in 2000, Ohio in 2004 and more. Mit asks: In the 2000 election, a lot of people blamed Nader for […]
    Ruiyan Xu 4 min read July 8, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • 'Election Day': Join Our News Hunt for Quality Journalism
    Election Day shows us that many stories about the American voting process and the need for election reform slip beneath the radar of mainstream news coverage. Now that we’re just a few short months away from Election Day 2008, we want to take a close look at how these issues are being covered today. For […]
    Catherine Jhee 3 min read July 2, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • Talking Back: 'Election Day'
    Election Day combines eleven stories — shot simultaneously on November 2, 2004, from dawn until long past midnight — into one film that documents the street-level experience of voters in today’s America. Along the way, filmmaker Katy Chevigny discovers that more and more Americans are bringing their passion for democracy to the poll. But Election […]
    Ruiyan Xu 2 min read June 30, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • Got a Question About Voting in America? Ask an Expert.
    Why are voting laws so different from state to state? What’s a poll watcher, and how can you become one? Derek Cressman of Common Cause, a voting watchdog organization, answered some frequently asked questions about the U.S. election system on the POV companion website for Election Day, a film that chronicles the 2004 presidential election […]
    theresa 2 min read June 29, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • Ask the Filmmaker: Election Day's Katy Chevigny
    To make Election Day, filmmaker Katy Chevigny fielded 14 crews to capture the action on November 2, 2004, all over the country. Election Day is as fast-paced and suspenseful as a thriller, with vote counts and political activism substituting for shootouts and car chases. The heroes of the day are ordinary Americans determined to vote, […]
    Ruiyan Xu 2 min read June 28, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • Raising Voter Rights Awareness around 'Election Day' and APA Heritage Month
    Irene Villaseñor is POV’s Youth Views manager. Youth Views is a project that works with youth, educators, and youth-serving organizations to use POV films as a tool for youth engagement. Irene writes in today to talk about how communities can organize around the 2008 POV film Election Day to reduce voter disenfranchisement, and her own […]
    Irene Villasenor 3 min read May 1, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • Arts Engine Celebrates 10th Anniversary
    Katy Chevigny is the filmmaker behind Election Day (POV 2008) as well as the co-founder of the non-profit media organization Arts Engine, whose production arm, Big Mouth Films, has produced eight feature-length documentaries. This week, Arts Engine celebrates its 10th anniversary with a series of screenings at the Paley Center for Media in New York. […]
    POV Guest Blogger 3 min read April 28, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • Why Vote? 2008: Tell Us What Issues Matter Most to You
    Did you know that Earth Day was first officially observed throughout the United States in 1970? Thanks to Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, more than 20 million Americans organized massive rallies and demonstrations for a healthier, sustainable environment, protesting against massive oil spills, industrial pollution, and the loss of wilderness areas in what would become […]
    Catherine Jhee 3 min read April 22, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • 2008 POV Preview: 'Election Day'
    Now that it’s mid-April, we’re finally beginning to get a taste of spring here in New York. And that means that summer — and POV’s 21st season — are just around the corner. Today we’re taking a sneak peek at Election Day, which will have its broadcast premiere on Tuesday, July 1 at 10 PM […]
    Catherine Jhee 1 min read April 11, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • Spotlight on DocuClub
    Felix Endara is the Filmmaker Services Coordinator at Arts Engine, an organization that produces and supports independent media — including Arctic Son (POV 2007), and the upcoming 2008 POV film Election Day. Felix is also the coordinator of DocuClub, a screening series which provides the opportunity for filmmakers to receive feedback while they’re in the […]
    POV Guest Blogger 3 min read April 3, 2008 Documentary News Comments

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