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  • POV and The New York Times Select Three Multimedia Storytellers to Create New Interactive Conversations About Race
    Meet the three mediamakers that will innovate with POV and The New York Times within the Race/Related team.
    POV Pressroom 7 min read August 22, 2016 Press Room Comments
  • POV and The New York Times Collaborate to Explore the Future of Documentary With a New Interactive Project About Race; Now Seeking a Mediamaker to Work in Hybrid Formats
    Funding from MacArthur Foundation will strengthen ties between the two organizations and allow POV to expand the scope of its digital storytelling.
    POV Pressroom 6 min read June 29, 2016 Press Room Comments
  • Doc Memo: Master Class with Werner Herzog, $25 Million Pledge to Indie Media
    POV's daily list of essential reading for the documentary and independent filmmaking community.
    POV Staff 2 min read May 19, 2016 Documentary News Comments
  • MacArthur Foundation Renews Support for American Documentary | POV
    Three-Year Grant Will Support Award-Winning PBS Documentary Series POV, Its Digital Innovations and National Community Engagement Campaigns and the WORLD Channel Series AMERICA REFRAMED
    POV Pressroom 8 min read January 28, 2016 Press Room Comments
  • POV Hackathon 9: Explore the Prototypes and the Technology
    Four teams 're-invented the documentary' at POV's latest weekend laboratory of nonfiction storytelling and technology at the Chicago Innovation Exchange in Chicago!
    POV Staff 8 min read August 18, 2015 Documentary News Comments
  • Announcing the POV Hackathon 9 Participants' Choice Award Winners…
    In Your Own Words: Understanding The Troubles wins the POV Hackathon 9 Participants' Choice Award -- voted on by all team members at Chicago Innovation Exchange on August 16, 2015. See all the projects and prototypes, coming soon to the POV Blog.
    POV Staff 1 min read August 16, 2015 Documentary News Comments
  • After Passing Up a Shot at Sundance, Documentary Filmmaker Yance Ford Receives a MacArthur
    "I actually followed my own advice and didn't cut for a deadline." - Strong Island filmmaker Yance Ford
    Tom Roston 5 min read October 28, 2014 Doc Soup Comments
  • 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!
    POV Staff 1 min read October 2, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments