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  • POV Announces 2016 POV Digital Labs for New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco; Now Seeking Teams of Storyteller/Hackers
    Applications are due Aug. 19 for the 2016 POV Digital Labs in New York City (Sept. 24-25), Los Angeles (Oct. 15-16) and San Francisco (Oct. 29-30) #povlab
    POV Staff 4 min read May 24, 2016 POV Films Blog Comments
  • POV Hackathon 5: Explore the Prototypes and the Technology
    Six teams "re-invented the documentary" at POV's latest weekend laboratory of nonfiction storytelling and technology.
    POV Staff 24 min read May 12, 2014 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Two Filmmakers Reinvent Their Approach for “Reinvention Stories,” a Web Documentary
    "It's crazy for us to go from dedicated long-form documentarians... and here we are, supposed to make something in an environment where you can click off any time you want." - Julia Reichert
    POV Staff 9 min read February 26, 2013 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Vote for POV
    POV has long had a presence at SXSW’s film festival. For SXSW 2010, we’ve submitted a panel idea to SXSW Interactive. Please vote for our panel, titled “First Person Storytelling: My So-Called Digital Life.” Moderator Amanda Hirsch, who writes the Outside the Frame column for this blog, will recruit an array of digital storytellers to […]
    Ruiyan Xu 1 min read August 26, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • Outside the Frame: MediaStorm and Online Storytelling
    Freelance writer Amanda Hirsch, former editorial director of PBS Interactive, blogs about documentaries and the Web in her column, Outside the Frame, published every other Wednesday. “MediaStorm’s principal aim is to usher in the next generation of multimedia storytelling.” So announces the website for New York-based multimedia production company MediaStorm. Sound ambitious? Just a bit. […]
    Amanda Hirsch 4 min read November 12, 2008 Documentary News Comments