 Close
Follow

Blog Columns

  • Documentary News
  • POV Films Blog
  • Doc Soup
  • Press Room
  • Documentary Site
  • Story Doctor

Recent Posts

  • Featured Event: 'QUEST' film screening with Company One and ZUMIX
  • PRESS RELEASE: Hasidic Women Upend Tradition by Forming An All-Female EMT Corps in ‘93QUEEN,’ Airing September 17, 2018 on POV
  • PRESS RELEASE: Voices of the Sea | Contradictions of Love and Freedom in Cuban Love Story
  • Critical Acclaim for 'Whose Streets?'
  • Featured Event: 'Whose Streets?' Screening and Discussion at St. Louis' Public Media Commons
POV's Documentary Blog



mexico
  • Featured Event: 'Kingdom of Shadows' at Marathon County Public Library
    Join the Marathon County Public Library for a free screening of 'Kingdom of Shadows', as a part of their weekly POV Preview Month, every Tuesday in September. A facilitated discussion will follow. For more information, call 715 261-7229.
    POV Staff 1 min read September 2, 2016 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Doc Memo: Mexico's Revolutionary Female Filmmakers, VHS VCR Production to Cease
    POV's daily list of essential reading for the documentary and independent filmmaking community.
    POV Staff 3 min read July 22, 2016 Documentary News Comments
  • POV Interactive Shorts: Q&A with Theo Rigby ('Immigrant Nation')
    Q&A with Immigrant Nation creator Theo Rigby.
    POV Staff 5 min read September 22, 2014 POV Films Blog Comments
  • With DOC RED, A Hope for Mexican Documentary Filmmakers
    Faced with limited distribution options, Mexico's documentary filmmakers have banded together. POV Intern and DOC RED member Melissa Saucedo reports back from a recent meeting.
    Melissa Saucedo 3 min read February 12, 2014 Documentary News Comments
  • Play Now: The Reportero Challenge: Do You Have What It Takes?
    Do you have what it takes to be the editor of a newspaper in Tijuana, Mexico? Take The Reportero Challenge and find out.
    POV Staff 1 min read January 28, 2014 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Critical Acclaim for 'El Velador'
    Read what critics have been saying about POV's El Velador, a film about a guard who watches over the extravagant mausoleums of some of Mexico’s most notorious drug lords.
    POV Staff 1 min read July 23, 2013 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Video en línea de Reportero extendido a México: 1 al 6 de febrero del 2013
    Por tiempo limitado, el público en México podrá ver el video en línea de Reportero completamente gratis. Disponible del 1 al 6 de febrero del 2013.
    POV Staff 2 min read January 31, 2013 POV Films Blog Comments
  • POV's 'Reportero' to Stream Free Online in Mexico: Feb. 1-6, 2013
    For a limited time, viewers in Mexico will be able to watch the POV documentary Reportero for free online.
    POV Staff 2 min read January 31, 2013 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Critical Acclaim for 'Reportero' – Watch It Free Online For A Limited Time
    Read what critics and journalists have to say about Reportero, a documentary about a veteran reporter and his colleagues at an independent newsweekly who defy powerful drug cartels and corrupt officials to continue publishing the news.
    POV Staff 2 min read January 25, 2013 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Watch 'Reportero' on the PBS Mobile App Starting January 1, 2013!
    Just announced! You can watch the critically-acclaimed 'Reportero' starting January 1, 2013 on the PBS app for iPhone and iPad!
    POV Staff 1 min read January 1, 2013 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Next on POV: 'Reportero'
    Next on POV: The U.S. broadcast premiere of 'Reportero', which follows a veteran reporter and his colleagues at a Tijuana-based independent newsweekly in one of the deadliest places in the world for journalists.
    POV Staff 2 min read December 6, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Giveaway: Win a Copy of Ioan Grillo's 'El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency'
    Enter our giveaway by November 30, 2012, for a chance to win an early holiday gift from POV! Ten lucky POV viewers will win a copy of Ioan Grillo's El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency.
    POV Staff 11 min read November 13, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • El Velador: “After this experience, everything else seems trivial.”
    Read what critics have to say about the POV documentary El Velador, which is a poetic and lyrical look at the drug wars in Mexico through the eyes of Martin, a man who watches over the mausoleums that house some of Mexico's most notorious drug lords. Premieres September 27, 2012, on PBS.
    POV Staff 3 min read September 27, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Watch a Sneak Preview of 'El Velador' on Your iPhone or iPad
    Just announced! You can now watch Natalia Almada's striking 'El Velador (The Night Watchman)' before the U.S. broadcast premiere on September 27, 2012 on the PBS app for iPhone and iPad!
    POV Staff 1 min read September 26, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Next on POV: 'Presumed Guilty'
    Watch the Emmy Award-winning documentary about a man who was in the wrong place at the wrong time by first-time filmmakers who turned into "lawyers with cameras." Presumed Guilty airs Thursday, August 23, 2012, on PBS.
    POV Staff 1 min read August 23, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • POV's 'Presumed Guilty' is Subject of Landmark Freedom of Speech and Censorship Case in Mexico
    The award-winning Presumed Guilty has become the highest-grossing documentary in Mexico's history, but last Wednesday, the film was pulled from the theatrical circuit by a federal judge. Another court has now overturned that ruling, but the legal battle continues.
    Sean Holmquest 2 min read March 11, 2011 Documentary News Comments
  • Weekly Roundup: Presumed Guilty, Streaming Films and Alum News
    We’re smack in the middle of POV’s 23rd season — and it’s been a great one so far. Encore presentations The Way We Get By and First Person Plural will be shown on select PBS stations in the next two weeks (check your local listings here). On August 17, we’ll be back with a brand […]
    Ruiyan Xu 3 min read July 29, 2010 Documentary News Comments
  • Doc Soup: Presumed Guilty
    I found Presumed Guilty, which airs tonight on POV (10 PM, check local listings), very compelling. It’s the kind of doc that left me with several burning questions — so I decided to follow up with the lawyers-turned-filmmakers directly. Roberto Hernández graciously responded.   Doc Soup Man: Since the Thin Blue Line, as far as […]
    Tom Roston 6 min read July 27, 2010 Doc Soup Comments

Next Page 