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  • How to Program the Largest Documentary Festival in North America
    For Hot Docs Director of Programming Shane Smith, putting together an engaging, diverse film festival is no easy task, and he wouldn't want it any other way.
    Tom Roston 5 min read April 26, 2016 Doc Soup Comments
  • POV Digital and Submarine Channel to Preview Kel O'Neill and Eline Jongsma's 'EXIT: A Mobile Guide to the Post Apocalypse' at SXSW
    Interactive Smartphone Documentary Unleashes Emmy-Nominated Filmmakers’ Existential Fears When They Become New Parents
    POV Pressroom 6 min read March 9, 2016 Press Room Comments
  • Announcing the POV Hackathon 9 Participants' Choice Award Winners…
    In Your Own Words: Understanding The Troubles wins the POV Hackathon 9 Participants' Choice Award -- voted on by all team members at Chicago Innovation Exchange on August 16, 2015. See all the projects and prototypes, coming soon to the POV Blog.
    POV Staff 1 min read August 16, 2015 Documentary News Comments
  • POV Nominated for 13 News & Documentary Emmy Awards
    'After Tiller', 'American Promise,' 'Big Men' Receive Multiple Nominations, Including Best Documentary; POV Digital Receives First Nomination for an Interactive Documentary
    POV Pressroom 7 min read July 23, 2015 Press Room Comments
  • How to Add Video and Text to 3D 360-Degree Video with the WebVR Starter Kit
    Check out this example using 3D 360-degree video along with live-generated text for subtitles.
    Brian Chirls 0 min read July 1, 2015 POV Films Blog Comments
  • A Virtual Camera for Interactive Documentaries, Inspired by Side-Scrolling Video Games
    This new open-source code library creates a virtual camera that can zoom and dolly inside interactive web-based experiences.
    Brian Chirls 5 min read June 30, 2015 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Who Are The Champions? FIFA World Cup Through the Eyes of People on the Street
    Who Are The Champions? from the Submarine Channel explores the impact of the FIFA World Cup through the stories of people on the streets of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Johannesburg, South Africa, and Leipzig, Germany.
    Emma Dessau 12 min read June 5, 2015 Documentary News Comments
  • POV Interactive Documentaries Nominated for a 2015 Webby Award!
    POV Interactive Shorts are up for a 2015 Webby Award and we need your help to win!
    POV Staff 2 min read April 7, 2015 POV Films Blog Comments
  • A Curious App to Consume, Sort Of
    A new app brings together a series of materials about the ideas of consuming and being consumed.
    Heather McIntosh 4 min read March 18, 2015 Documentary Site Comments
  • Dressing Up the Computer's Story for an iPad App
    iPad apps make for an interesting way to explore interactive documentary, and The Computer Wore Heels offers an engaging story about women's contributions during World War II.
    Heather McIntosh 3 min read February 10, 2015 Documentary Site Comments
  • Dispatches from IDFA: A Conversation with DocLab Architect Caspar Sonnen
    Kel O'Neill (of Jongsma + O'Neill) sits down with IDFA DocLab creator Caspar Sonnen to discuss DocLab, digital storytelling, and the 'medium' of interactive documentaries — if it can be defined as a 'medium' at all.
    Kel O'Neill 11 min read November 20, 2014 Documentary News Comments
  • Join 'Whiteness Project' Creator Whitney Dow for a Reddit AMA on Thursday, November 13
    Whitney Dow took questions -- unfiltered -- about issues of race in America and the interactive documentary that has brought everyday white Americans into the racial discussion on Reddit.
    POV Staff 1 min read November 12, 2014 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Smart Cropping for Video: A Tool for Displaying Video at Any Aspect Ratio
    With ubiquitous availability of video in mobile and desktop browsers, letterbox may no longer be the best way to adapt a viewers experience to the content.
    Brian Chirls 8 min read July 21, 2014 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Getting Ready for a Year of Experimentation (“No Predictions” Edition)
    New capabilities demand new conventions for communicating with viewers as well as new processes for authors.
    Brian Chirls 2 min read July 14, 2014 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Quebec's Digital Storytelling Manifesto
    At IDFA 2013, digital storytellers from Quebec released a 10-point manifesto to both define "les nouvelles écritures" as an art form and to serve as a call for support from policymakers.
    POV Staff 4 min read November 26, 2013 Documentary News Comments
  • Interact with Web Documentary Prototypes from DocMontevideo Hackathon
    DocMontevideo held their first Hackathon in Montevideo, Uruguay in July 2013. Interact with the web documentary prototypes made by three teams of filmmakers and technologists from Argentina, Uruguay and Chile.
    POV Blogger 3 min read September 19, 2013 Documentary News Comments
  • Hollow: An Interactive Documentary Made While In School, But It's No Student Film
    How do you balance grad school with production of your documentary? Elaine McMillion takes POV inside the creation of Hollow and offers lessons for students.
    POV Blogger 9 min read September 6, 2013 Documentary News Comments
  • POV Hackathon Submission Tips for Filmmakers
    What makes a great POV Hackathon application? (And what makes a bad one?) POV Digital Director Adnaan Wasey offers tips for would-be storytelling innovators.
    POV Staff 3 min read December 4, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments

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