- Doc Memo: Refugee Crisis Doc Picked as Italy's Oscar Contender, Laura Poitras' Plan to Shake Up Doc Storytelling
POV's daily list of essential reading for the documentary and independent filmmaking community.
- Doc Memo: 6-part Doc Series on Syrian Refugees, The New Chinese Doc Movement
POV's daily list of essential reading for the documentary and independent filmmaking community.
- Doc Memo: Impact-Making Documentaries at Cannes, Q&A with Laura Poitras
POV's daily list of essential reading for the documentary and independent filmmaking community.
- The Stunning Storytelling of Laura Poitras: Astro Noise
Why award-winning documentarian Laura Poitras' first solo museum exhibition at the Whitney Museum can't be missed.
- Field of Vision Marries Documentary with Journalism
How journalism and documentary can complement each other in ways that touch us in differently.
- Oscar 2015: What the Documentary Winners Said (Or Didn't)
The documentary community breathed a deep sigh of relief last night when Laura Poitras won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature, but her speech was a missed opportunity.
- Teaching Op-Docs: Starting with the Big Questions
For a junior-level course this semester, I am using The New York Times's Op-Doc series as a model for talking about journalism, documentary, and online video.
- Teaching Op-Docs
In teaching a junior-level news and reporting course this semester, I have decided to use The New York Times's Op-Docs as a production model for thinking about news within online journalism.
- Documentary Community Gathers at 2015 Cinema Eye Honors
If there is ever a question whether or not there's an actual community of documentary filmmakers, the first bit of evidence should be the Cinema Eye Honors.
- Tabitha Jackson Shifts Sundance Institute's Documentary Focus Towards Aesthetics
Doc Soup Man talks with Sundance Institute's documentary program director, Tabitha Jackson, who says she wants make sure "that the doors are opened more widely" for artistic expression in documentary filmmaking.
- POV Reimagines the Documentary – Again
Cross-posted from Knight Blog, the blog of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Since its earliest days, POV has been an exercise in bridging independent voices and the public by offering new tools and technology for storytelling and engagement.
- Giveaway: Win a Ticket to Paley DocFest's Event “Documenting Power: 25 Years of Political Films on POV”
Passionate about political issues? Excited about the upcoming election? Win a ticket to the Paley DocFest Event "Documenting Power: 25 Years of Political Films on POV" at The Paley Center for Media in New York City, Thursday, October 18, 2012, at 6:30pm.
- Natalia Almada and Laura Poitras: Meet Two Documentary “Geniuses”
POV congratulates filmmakers Natalia Almada and Laura Poitras for being named among the 2012 MacArthur Fellows!
- 'The Oath' Streams Online, Director Laura Poitras Joins Live Chat with PBS NewsHour for 9/11 Anniversary
Watch The Oath online during Sept. 2011 on the POV website, and join a live chat about post-9/11 documentaries with Academy Award-nominated director Laura Poitras September 12 at 2 PM ET (11 AM PT).
- POV Viewers Find Meaning in 'The Oath'
Each Friday, we share a selection of comments relating to the week's documentary broadcast. This week, viewers watched former Osama bin Laden bodyguard Abu Jandal in The Oath, a story layered with contradiction, irony and tragedy.
- Next on POV: 'The Oath'
The Oath, directed by Laura Poitras, airs on PBS stations this Tuesday, August 16, 2011.
- Doc Soup: 'The Oath' and Understanding the Enemy as a Human Being
Independent journalist Tom Roston revisits The Oath, the 2010 documentary about Osama bin Laden's former bodyguard and driver, at a screening with producer Jonathan Oppenheim.
- 'O' Say Can You See' Exhibit at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center
Documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras‘ two most recent feature-length films, My Country, My Country and The Oath (both aired on POV), are part of a planned trilogy that explore the ambiguities, injustices and bureaucracy of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the treatment of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. While a third film has yet to […]