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  • Fact or Fiction: 'FRAUD' Challenges What Constitutes a Documentary
    A new film by Dean Fleischer-Camp controversially tests the boundaries of documentary.
    Tom Roston 7 min read January 19, 2017 Doc Soup Comments
  • Is Seeing Believing? The New Documentaries Challenging Reality
    There's more than meets the eye in these new nonfiction films.
    Tom Roston 5 min read May 5, 2016 Doc Soup Comments
  • POV Hackathon 10: Explore the Prototypes and the Technology
    Four teams 're-invented the documentary' at POV's latest weekend laboratory of nonfiction storytelling and technology at CreatorUp! in Los Angeles.
    POV Staff 10 min read October 6, 2015 Documentary News 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
  • Dispatches from IDFA: A Conversation with DocLab Architect Caspar Sonnen
    Kel O'Neill (of Jongsma + O'Neill) sits down with IDFA DocLab creator Caspar Sonnen to discuss DocLab, digital storytelling, and the 'medium' of interactive documentaries — if it can be defined as a 'medium' at all.
    Kel O'Neill 11 min read November 20, 2014 Documentary News Comments
  • POV Hackathon 6: Explore the Prototypes and the Technology
    Five teams "re-invented the documentary" at POV's latest weekend laboratory of nonfiction storytelling and technology.
    POV Staff 18 min read May 19, 2014 POV Films Blog Comments
  • CNN Films Jumps Into Documentary Fray with Spurlock, Rossi, Bourdain, and More
    A look at the new CNN Films banner and some of the documentary and nonfiction programming it will offer.
    Heather McIntosh 3 min read January 28, 2013 Documentary News Comments
  • Doc Soup Man Presents: A Discussion of Branded Documentaries and Branded Documentarians
    Morgan Spurlock isn't the only documentarian who's crossed over into the commercial world. Did you know there's an agency that specializes in bringing that nonfiction touch to a 30-second spot?
    Tom Roston 5 min read April 30, 2012 Doc Soup Comments
  • Doc Soup: Docs Takes Round One in the Nonfiction vs Fiction Death Match
    The numbers are in. It may not be a knockout, but nonfiction is our Round One champ!
    Tom Roston 1 min read August 29, 2011 Doc Soup Comments
  • Doc Soup: Fiction vs. Nonfiction Death Match, Round One
    It's a film showdown: fiction films versus documentaries. POV's Doc Soup Man Tom Roston and indieWIRE's Anne Thompson take their differences into the ring. Which side are you on?
    Tom Roston 15 min read August 23, 2011 Doc Soup Comments