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  • The Making of Priya's Shakti
    Jaya Mahajan discusses the making of Priya's Shakti, a multimedia project combating attitudes towards sexual assault, with producer Ram Devineni.
    POV Guest Blogger 8 min read January 22, 2015 Documentary News Comments
  • POV Interactive Shorts: Q&A with Whitney Dow ('Whiteness Project')
    "I believe that if I am ever really going to understand someone else's racial experience I had to understand my own first."
    POV Staff 3 min read October 6, 2014 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Jessica Edwards on the Making of 'Tell Me Something' and Getting Advice From 60 of the World's Best Documentary Filmmakers
    Filmmaker and editor Jessica Edwards tells POV about making the book Tell Me Something, which features advice from 60 of the world's best documentary filmmakers.
    Erin McIntyre 9 min read November 26, 2013 Documentary News Comments
  • Standard Three-Camera Interview Setup
    MediaStorm provides a comprehensive look at their three-camera setup for interviews, outlining their camera, audio, and light layouts.
    POV Guest Blogger 6 min read April 18, 2013 Documentary News Comments
  • Flaherty NYC's Fall 2012 Series Takes an Irreverent View on the Political Documentary
    Curator Jon Dieringer tells POV about the politically themed documentaries in Flaherty NYC's Fall 2012 Series and how he's avoiding films that correspond to the "supposed issues."
    Adam Schartoff 4 min read October 16, 2012 Documentary News Comments
  • Ron Simon on Curating Paley DocFest 2012 and the Impact of Political Documentaries in an Election Year
    Ron Simon tells POV how he curates New York City's Paley DocFest, which this year features a handful of politically themes documentaries timed to the November elections.
    Adam Schartoff 7 min read October 9, 2012 Documentary News Comments
  • Inside the 2012 Camden International Film Festival
    Now in its eighth year, the Camden International Film Festival is a small-town festival with big ambition.
    Morlene Chin 8 min read September 27, 2012 Documentary News Comments
  • Three Things to Know About Yourself Before Hiring a Transmedia Designer
    After beginning a transmedia project for her new documentary, filmmaker Liz Nord has some short and easy tips to think about before you hire a transmedia designer for your own project.
    Liz Nord 5 min read August 14, 2012 Documentary News Comments
  • Silverdocs 2012: A. Sabin & David Redmon on Downeast
    A. Sabin and David Redmon (Girl Model) moved next door to a shuttered sardine factory in Gouldsboro, Maine, to film their new documentary Downeast.
    Adam Schartoff 10 min read June 22, 2012 Documentary News Comments
  • Silverdocs 2012: Ramona Diaz on Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey
    Director Ramona Diaz's new film Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey, which opens Silverdocs 2012, documents the unlikely discovery of Filipino singer Arnel Pinada to lead the American rock band Journey.
    Adam Schartoff 6 min read June 17, 2012 Documentary News Comments
  • 18 Days in Egypt Co-Creator Jigar Mehta
    Journalist-turned-web-documentarian Jigar Mehta tells POV about treating documentary filmmaking like a startup company, hiring crowdsourcing evangelists (with help from Kickstarter) and re-inventing the participatory documentary on the fly.
    Anne Zhou 12 min read May 21, 2012 Documentary News Comments
  • Theo Rigby on Prototyping 'Immigrant Nation' at Hot Hacks (Part Two)
    Theo Rigby (Sin País (Without Country)) is taking his next project to the web, and he’s blogging about his experience. In this post, Rigby reveals the Immigrant Nation prototype, a product of a weekend of "hacking" with Mozilla developers in Toronto.
    POV Guest Blogger 6 min read May 8, 2012 Documentary News Comments
  • Are We 'Surviving Progress'?
    Director Mathieu Roy looks at the risks of our technologically advanced age and tackles huge, existential questions within the wrapper of an 86-minute documentary. The film opens in New York City this weekend and expands to other select cities in April and May.
    Edward J. Delaney 4 min read April 6, 2012 Documentary News Comments
  • SXSW 2012: Beware of Mr. Baker
    Blogger Adam Schartoff talks with Jay Bulger, the director of SXSW's top documentary prize winner, Beware of Mr. Baker.
    Adam Schartoff 5 min read April 4, 2012 Documentary News Comments
  • SXSW 2012: Paul Williams Still Alive
    The documentary Paul Williams Still Alive had its U.S. premiere at the 2012 SXSW Film Festival. Blogger Adam Schartoff talked with songwriter-subject Paul Williams about his initial reluctance to share his life story.
    Adam Schartoff 2 min read March 17, 2012 Documentary News Comments
  • SXSW 2012: Caveh Zahedi Riles a Government (and an Audience) with 'The Sheik and I'
    The criticism of Caveh Zahedi's new documentary is only growing, but the artist refuses to back down.
    Adam Schartoff 3 min read March 15, 2012 Documentary News Comments
  • 'More Than A Month' Channels Moore, Spurlock and Woody Allen in Journey to End Black History Month
    Edward J. Delaney talks to director Shukree Tilghman about his tongue-in-cheek cross-country campaign (and documentary) to end Black History Month.
    Edward J. Delaney 4 min read January 28, 2012 Documentary News Comments
  • Frederick Wiseman Bares All… About the Nudity in 'Crazy Horse'
    The documentary Crazy Horse is attracting attention for its depiction of nudity in a Parisian nightclub. It's a controversy director Frederick Wiseman has dealt with before, on his first film, the once-banned Titicut Follies.
    Adam Schartoff 4 min read January 27, 2012 Documentary News Comments

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