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  • Theo Rigby on Prototyping 'Immigrant Nation' at Hot Hacks (Part Two)
    Theo Rigby (Sin País (Without Country)) is taking his next project to the web, and he’s blogging about his experience. In this post, Rigby reveals the Immigrant Nation prototype, a product of a weekend of "hacking" with Mozilla developers in Toronto.
    POV Guest Blogger 6 min read May 8, 2012 Documentary News Comments
  • Theo Rigby on Prototyping 'Immigrant Nation' at Hot Hacks (Part One)
    Theo Rigby, director of Sin País (Without Country), is taking his next project to the web, and he's blogging about his experience working with Mozilla developers at Hot Hacks, which is about to get underway at Hot Docs in Toronto.
    POV Guest Blogger 4 min read April 27, 2012 Documentary News Comments
  • Anthropomorphize This!
    In a series of films that screened at Flaherty NYC, an offshoot of The Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, animator Jim Trainor and artist Nancy Andrews challenged notions about animals on the big screen.
    Kapish Singla 5 min read April 12, 2012 Documentary News Comments
  • PBS Online Film Festival: Watch 'This Gay and Age'
    Your votes will determine the People's Choice Winner in PBS's first-ever Online Film Festival! Watch an award-winning documentary short by teen filmmaker Morgan Wilcock, who examines the stereotypes that bombard today's LGBT youth.
    POV Staff 1 min read April 2, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • PBS Online Film Festival: Which Film Will Be the People's Choice Winner?
    All of the films from PBS's first-ever Online Film Festival are now online! Watch and vote for your favorite shorts!
    POV Staff 2 min read April 1, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Oscar 2012: Predicting the Documentary Winners
    Who will win? Doc Soup Man has picked it for four years running. But this year, he says, is one of the closest races in years.
    Tom Roston 5 min read February 22, 2012 Doc Soup Comments
  • Project VoiceScape: Watch the Full Films and Vote for Your Favorite!
    Young filmmakers who won production grants earlier this year are now competing for the 2011 Project VoiceScape Audience Award. Watch the films and vote for your favorite before 9/30!
    POV Staff 1 min read September 12, 2011 Documentary News Comments
  • Next on POV: 'POV Short Cuts'
    POV's 24th season on PBS continues with POV Short Cuts, a one-hour collection of documentary shorts by established and emerging filmmakers. Watch it on the PBS mobile app now, or on TV this Tuesday, August 23, 2011 at 10 PM.
    Alva French 3 min read August 19, 2011 Documentary News Comments