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Lucy Walker
  • Tribeca 2016: A Virtual Reality Odyssey
    How nonfiction filmmakers work with virtual reality.
    Tom Roston 4 min read April 14, 2016 Doc Soup Comments
  • Lucy Walker's 'The Lion's Mouth Open' and Confronting Huntington's Disease
    Where do we draw the line between being movie watchers and empathetic human beings when viewing a documentary about the fate of someone's life? Tom Roston reflects on Lucy Walker's short documentary The Lion's Mouth Opens, premiering on HBO Documentaries.
    Tom Roston 3 min read June 1, 2015 Doc Soup Comments
  • 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.
    Heather McIntosh 3 min read January 27, 2015 Documentary Site Comments
  • #365Docs: The Crash Reel (59/365)
    I'm watching 365 documentaries and writing about each one in 2014. Tweet your suggestions to @documentarysite.
    Heather McIntosh 3 min read July 21, 2014 Documentary Site Comments
  • 10 Secrets for Making the Most of Your Film's Broadcast Premiere
    Picture Motion's Alexandra Pearson and Megan Ryan take us behind the scenes of the social impact campaigns of five remarkable films that aired on CNN, HBO, OWN and POV.
    POV Guest Blogger 9 min read May 21, 2014 Documentary News Comments
  • And Now A Word NOT From Our Sponsors
    Tom Roston wonders if a sponsor-love scene in HBO Documentaries' The Crash Reel qualifies as product placement, and goes to filmmaker Lucy Walker to investigate.
    Tom Roston 9 min read July 15, 2013 Doc Soup Comments
  • Oscar 2012: Predicting the Documentary Winners
    Who will win? Doc Soup Man has picked it for four years running. But this year, he says, is one of the closest races in years.
    Tom Roston 5 min read February 22, 2012 Doc Soup Comments
  • Oscar 2012: Best Feature Documentary Nominees List Includes 'If a Tree Falls'
    The Academy has announced its nominees for 2011's Best Documentary Feature and Documentary Short Subject, which includes two POV films: If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front and The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement.
    POV Staff 3 min read January 24, 2012 Documentary News Comments