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  • Featured Event: Asia Society presents 'The Birth of Sake'
    Join the Asia Society for a free screening of The Birth of Saké.
    POV Staff 1 min read August 22, 2016 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Doc Memo: Honesty in Nature Docs, Tribeca Film Festival 2017 Dates
    POV's daily list of essential reading for the documentary and independent filmmaking community.
    POV Staff 4 min read August 16, 2016 Documentary News Comments
  • Featured Event: Brooklyn Museum Presents 'Don't Tell Anyone (No Le Digas a Nadie)'
    Join the Brooklyn Museum for a screening of Don't Tell Anyone (No Le Digas a Nadie) to kick off the new year and the first Target First Saturday of 2016.
    POV Staff 1 min read December 18, 2015 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Upcoming Events
    This week, films highlighting issues surrounding how we handle disease and how it relates to families are screening across the country.
    POV Staff 2 min read November 6, 2014 POV Films Blog Comments
  • The Inaugural New York WILD Film Festival Showcases Documentaries About Adventure and Exploration
    In January, the Explorer's Club opened its wrought-iron doors to crowds of freezing New Yorkers, who trekked through snowy sidewalks and single-digit temperatures to attend the opening night of the New York WILD Film Festival.
    Justine Goode 9 min read June 10, 2014 Documentary News Comments
  • Tribeca Film Festival Documentary Alum “Flex Is Kings” Showcases Underground Dance Of The Outer Boroughs
    Doc Soup Man Tom Roston discusses urban dance documentary and Tribeca Film Festival alum Flex Is Kings from Directors Deidre Schoo & Michael Beach Nichols.
    Tom Roston 2 min read April 9, 2014 Doc Soup Comments
  • Upcoming POV Screenings: Brooklyn Special
    Two exciting screenings come to Brooklyn on September 28 and 29th, when POV takes part in the DUMBO Arts Festival andholds a sneak-preview of PBS Indie Showcase film Brooklyn Castle at the Brooklyn Museum.
    POV Staff 2 min read September 20, 2013 POV Films Blog 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
  • Doc Soup: Scary Soup
    One day, I think POV should host a Halloween party in which everyone comes as their favorite documentary character or filmmaker. (I think I’d go as R. Crumb.) Until then, let’s celebrate Halloween by considering how the documentary and horror genres overlap. Hell House is the first doc that comes to mind; it’s about these […]
    Tom Roston 2 min read October 25, 2010 Doc Soup Comments
  • 'Bronx Princess' in the News
    Rocky Otoo, 17, center, stands with her father, Nii Adjedu, left, and her mother “Auntie” Yaa Otoo, right, in the Bronx, NY. Credit: Photo by Yoni Brook/Highbridge Pictures POV aired the last film of our 2009 season last night on PBS. Bronx Princess is the story of Rocky Otoo, the Bronx-bred teenage daughter of Ghanaian […]
    theresa 2 min read September 23, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • Update: 'Bronx Princess' Party in Bronx is Tonight
    Due to rain, this past weekend’s Bronx Princess screening and party was postponed to tonight. Read all about the activities in the original post.
    theresa 0 min read September 1, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • Opening in Theaters: The English Surgeon
    If you’re in New York this weekend, be sure to check out The English Surgeon at Cinema Village. The film, which will have its broadcast premiere on POV on September 8, is opening its theatrical run in New York this weekend, and director Geoffrey Smith and the film’s protagonist, Dr. Henry Marsh, will be holding […]
    Catherine Jhee 1 min read July 22, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • Doc Soup: Revisiting the New York City of “Style Wars”
    Last week, as promised in a previous post, I finally sat down and watched the 1982 doc Style Wars, directed by Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant. I was really impressed by the film, and two days later, I was pleased to see the New York Times film critic A.O. Scott giving it a rave review […]
    Tom Roston 1 min read April 29, 2009 Doc Soup Comments