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  • Outside the Frame: Great Documentary Websites
    Freelance writer Amanda Hirsch, former editorial director of PBS Interactive, blogs about documentaries and the Web in her column, Outside the Frame. You fundraise, you shoot, and you fundraise some more. Years pass, and still, you toil. Finally: a finished film. And then, the question: “What about a website?” You aren’t a website producer — […]
    Amanda Hirsch 4 min read August 19, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • Outside the Frame: Social Networks as Fodder for Art
    Freelance writer Amanda Hirsch, former editorial director of PBS Interactive, blogs about documentaries and the Web in her column, Outside the Frame. The beauty of nature, the gruesomeness of war…and Facebook status updates? Yes, Facebook can now count itself among the muses of history, having inspired Wisconsin artist Stacey Williams-Ng to create a series of […]
    Ruiyan Xu 3 min read May 13, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • Outside the Frame: Q&A With “Fans, Friends and Followers” Author Scott Kirsner
    Freelance writer Amanda Hirsch, former editorial director of PBS Interactive, blogs about documentaries and the Web in her column, Outside the Frame. In his latest book, Fans, Friends and Followers, writer Scott Kirsner explores how a range of artists — filmmakers, comedians, writers and others — are using the Web to build an audience, and […]
    Amanda Hirsch 7 min read April 22, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • Outside the Frame: An Ode to Quirk
    Freelance writer Amanda Hirsch, former editorial director of PBS Interactive, blogs about documentaries and the Web in her weekly column, Outside the Frame. I recently watched Helvetica, a documentary about a font. Well, that’s a bit reductionist — it’s a doc about a font, and the people who love and hate it. Because, lest you […]
    Amanda Hirsch 3 min read February 4, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • Inauguration '09: I Was There. And So Were You.
    POV interactive director Theresa Riley was in Washington D.C. last week for the presidential inauguration. She tells us about watching — and documenting — the inauguration from the ground. A few days after the election in November, Thursday the 6th to be precise, I called up my congresswoman’s D.C. office and asked to be put […]
    theresa 6 min read January 27, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • Outside the Frame: Mommy Talk. Mommy Listen?
    Freelance writer Amanda Hirsch, former editorial director of PBS Interactive, blogs about documentaries and the Web in her column, Outside the Frame, published every other Wednesday. I should say right off the bat that I don’t have kids. So what am I doing at Momversation, a video blog about the experiences of motherhood? Well, I’m […]
    Ruiyan Xu 4 min read December 10, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • Outside the Frame: Introducing Amanda Hirsch
    Freelance writer Amanda Hirsch, former editorial director of PBS Interactive, will be writing a biweekly column, Outside the Frame, for the POV Blog about documentaries and the Web. Outside the Frame will be published every other Wednesday. As a long-time POV fan, I’m thrilled to join the ranks of POV bloggers. While I’m a big […]
    Amanda Hirsch 3 min read October 15, 2008 Documentary News Comments