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  • Small Town, Big Ideas
    The Princeton Environmental Film Festival is back, and this year's opening weekend features two hard-hitting events that will explore the impact of Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy.
    POV Staff 2 min read January 15, 2013 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Last Chance to Watch Select POV Short Docs Online!
    Watch The Barber of Birmingham, Sin País and other documentary shorts free online while you can!
    POV Staff 2 min read November 2, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • What Are Your Top Weather Documentaries?
    With Hurricane Sandy keeping people in the Northeast shuttered in, Tom Roston contemplates his top list of weather-related documentaries.
    Tom Roston 3 min read October 29, 2012 Doc Soup Comments
  • Critics Praise 'I'm Carolyn Parker: The Good, the Mad, and the Beautiful'
    Read what critics have to say about the POV documentary I'm Carolyn Parker: The Good, the Mad, and the Beautiful, which follows one woman as she struggles to rebuild her home after Hurricane Katrina. Premieres September 21, 2012, on PBS.
    POV Staff 2 min read September 20, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Next on POV: 'I'm Carolyn Parker: The Good, the Mad, and the Beautiful'
    The story of a lifelong resident of the Lower Ninth Ward who fights for the right to rebuild her home and her community. Premieres Thursday, September 20, 2012 on POV.
    POV Staff 1 min read September 18, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Watch a Sneak Preview of 'I'm Carolyn Parker' on Your iPhone or iPad
    POV and PBS presents a free exclusive sneak preview of I'm Carolyn Parker starting Monday September 17, 2012 only on the PBS video apps for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch!
    POV Staff 1 min read September 17, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • I'm Carolyn Parker: An Update on Hurricane Isaac
    Daniel Wolff, author of 'The Fight for Home: How (Parts of) New Orleans Came Back' provides a brief update on how Carolyn Parker is weathering Hurricane Isaac in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans.
    POV Staff 2 min read September 4, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Daniel Wolff on Tour: More than a Story about New Orleans
    Meet I’m Carolyn Parker Producer Daniel Wolff in-person during a nine-city book and screening tour beginning on Thursday, August 16, 2012, in New Orleans and ending in Woodstock, NY, on October 13, 2012.
    POV Staff 3 min read August 10, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Doc Soup: Looking Ahead to the Oscars
    With the Oscar deadline for submissions now long passed by (September 2; in order to be eligible, a film had to show for one week in Los Angeles and Manhattan), I figured it’s time to stick my head out the window and check who’s in the running for an Academy Award for this year. I […]
    Tom Roston 4 min read September 22, 2008 Doc Soup Comments
  • Looking Back at Full Frame '08
    The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival came to a close on Sunday, April 6th with the traditional North Carolina barbeque awards ceremony. The first Full Frame since Nancy Buirski stepped down as director featured a streamlined, more user-friendly ticketing process, new venues and a greater diversity of student fellows from colleges and universities around the […]
    Yance Ford 3 min read April 8, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • The 2008 Full Frame Festival Begins!
    Yance Ford is in Durham, North Carolina this weekend, where she’s blogging from the 2008 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. The 2008 Full Frame Film Festival got off to an enthusiastic start in Durham last night. Elizabeth Edwards, wife of former presidential candidate John Edwards, addressed the crowd at Fletcher Hall. She spoke about the […]
    Yance Ford 3 min read April 4, 2008 Documentary News Comments