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  • Turning to Documentaries After Tragedy
    "Some might turn to religion in such situations. I turn to the arts. I want to call up a documentary that can speak to the spirit of loss, grief and, yes, hope for redemption."
    Tom Roston 2 min read December 17, 2012 Doc Soup Comments
  • “2016: Obama's America”: The Most Offensively Funny Movie of the Year
    Doc Soup Man Tom Rostron recently saw Dinesh D’Souza’s film, 2016: Obama's America, an unintentionally hilarious denunciation of President Barack Obama.
    Tom Roston 5 min read September 5, 2012 Doc Soup Comments
  • Four More Reasons Why Critics Favor Docs
    In response to Indiewire's claim that critics favor documentaries, Heather McIntosh offers four more reasons why docs have cachet.
    Heather McIntosh 3 min read July 5, 2012 Documentary News Comments
  • TMI: How Much Information is Too Much Information When Gaining the Trust of a Subject?
    Donal Mosher and Michael Palmieri, the directors of the award-winning October Country and the new documentary Off Label, understand the nuance in sharing personal information to win over a subject and, sometimes, in keeping a secret.
    Tom Roston 4 min read May 22, 2012 Doc Soup Comments
  • Documentary Films? That's Entertainment!
    Documentaries have started to assert that they, like their Hollywood cousins, can be more than simply 'engaging.' Doc Soup Man Tom Roston says they can be entertaining diversions too.
    Tom Roston 9 min read April 3, 2012 Doc Soup Comments
  • Video Slideshow: Presidential Documentaries Released in Election Years
    View video from some of the most influential and controversial documentaries released in the midst of U.S. presidential campaigns.
    Kapish Singla 11 min read March 16, 2012 Documentary News Comments
  • POV & Firelight Media Summit: Sustaining a Career as a Public Media Maker
    Firelight Media's Shoshone Johnson recaps a day of practical advice for documentary film producers, held at POV's office on Friday, February 17, 2012.
    POV Guest Blogger 5 min read February 22, 2012 Documentary News Comments
  • 'More Than A Month' Channels Moore, Spurlock and Woody Allen in Journey to End Black History Month
    Edward J. Delaney talks to director Shukree Tilghman about his tongue-in-cheek cross-country campaign (and documentary) to end Black History Month.
    Edward J. Delaney 4 min read January 28, 2012 Documentary News Comments
  • Sundance 2012: Those Lusterless Celebrity Documentaries
    With Sundance kicking off this Thursday, guest blogger Edward J. Delaney sounds off on his wariness of documentaries made by celebrities who seem to jump into the genre out of nowhere.
    Edward J. Delaney 5 min read January 18, 2012 Documentary News Comments
  • With New Documentary Requirements, Oscar Is Just Being Oscar
    Heather McIntosh talks with Michael Moore about the new process for documentary Oscar eligibility, and rounds up the flurry of commentary about the changes in the film press.
    Heather McIntosh 7 min read January 11, 2012 Documentary News Comments
  • 12 Small-Town Documentary Film Festivals for 2012
    A roundup of the nation's best small-town film festivals (with populations less than 100,000) for escaping the crowds, paparazzi and hype.
    Emily Thomas 9 min read January 3, 2012 Documentary News Comments
  • Documentary Year in Review Countdown #11: Michael Moore Sues the Weinsteins over 'Fahrenheit 9/11' Accounting
    POV is counting down the top documentary stories of 2011 on New Year's Eve 2012.
    Emily Thomas 1 min read December 31, 2011 Documentary News Comments
  • Where Are the First-Person Women Documentarians?
    With Tiffany Shlain's personal documentary Connected wrapping up its theatrical run, Doc Soup Man Tom Roston asks why the best known first-person documentarians are men.
    Tom Roston 3 min read December 15, 2011 Doc Soup Comments
  • Doc Soup: The 10 Most Unforgettable Moments in Documentary History
    Independent journalist Tom Roston checks in with a list of moments that remind us why we love documentaries. What would top your list?
    Tom Roston 6 min read November 5, 2011 Doc Soup Comments
  • Finding Depth in Documentary Film
    Guest blogger Edward J. Delaney distinguishes between 'art' and 'craft' in documentary film and singles out James March (Man on Wire, Project Nim) as being as close to an artist as anyone working in the form today.
    Edward J. Delaney 7 min read August 24, 2011 Documentary News Comments
  • The Fate of Documentary?
    In a response to a New York Press essay about the current state of documentaries, guest blogger Heather McIntosh of Documentary Site offers a second view, that documentaries are thriving and always have.
    Heather McIntosh 8 min read August 23, 2011 Documentary News Comments
  • Looking Forward to 2011
    Another year is upon us so let’s look forward to 2011 for the most exciting and intriguing things that’ll be happening in the documentary world. Here are five that are on my radar: 5) The Launch of OWN The Oprah Winfrey Network means a whole new outlet for doc material but there’s even more here. […]
    Tom Roston 3 min read January 3, 2011 Doc Soup Comments
  • Doc Soup: Top 10 Doc Films with a Social Agenda
    We’ve been talking a lot lately in the Doc Soup kitchen about really well made documentaries that actually effect change, so I’ve compiled a list of the Most Aesthetically Accomplished Documentary Films that Come with a Social Agenda. I’m not going to include war documentaries, although there happen to be several excellent ones (Operation Homecoming: […]
    Tom Roston 4 min read October 12, 2010 Doc Soup Comments

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