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  • The Vanishing of the Director of 'The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga'
    "Real life trumped the rest." Tom Roston sets out to learn why 'The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga' filmmaker Jessica Oreck has taken a step back from the documentary film world.
    Tom Roston 9 min read July 10, 2015 Doc Soup Comments
  • True/False 2014: My 5 Favorite Films
    Tom Roston introduces you to five documentaries you'll need to seek out in 2014.
    Tom Roston 5 min read March 2, 2014 Doc Soup Comments
  • Five Top Takeaways from Tribeca Film Institute's Interactive Day
    Liz Nord provides five major takeaways from Tribeca Film Institute's 2013 Interactive Day, providing insights for filmmakers who are exploring the digital space for storytelling.
    Liz Nord 6 min read April 24, 2013 Documentary News Comments
  • How They Made “The Aatsinki Season”
    We asked filmmaker Jessica Oreck and interactive developers Mike Knowlton and Hal Seigel how they generated the ideas that became the interactive project and how they managed their collaboration.
    Emma Dessau 7 min read January 8, 2013 Documentary News Comments
  • POV Hackathon: Five Documentary Prototypes From a Weekend of Hacking
    View the prototypes from POV Hackathon: Participate in an online debate with film characters, browse a documentary cookbook, find new meaning in numbers from news headlines, be moved by audio storytelling powered by live news and events, and explore the multimedia branches of a film from 1984.
    POV Staff 4 min read August 14, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • POV Hackathon: Know Your Hackers, “Aatsinski: The Story of Arctic Cowboys”
    The POV Hackathon team members working on the Aatsinki: The Story of Arctic Cowboys project include experienced media makers drawn from the worlds of linear documentary and new forms of interactive storytelling.
    POV Staff 6 min read August 7, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments