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  • Nostalgia for the Light: “This is one of the films of the year.”
    Read what critics are saying about Nostalgia for the Light, premiering tonight on PBS!
    POV Staff 2 min read October 25, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Watch 'Nostalgia for the Light' on your iPad or iPhone Starting Oct. 19!
    You can watch the critically-acclaimed 'Nostalgia for the Light' starting October 19, 2012 on the PBS app for iPhone and iPad!
    POV Staff 1 min read October 17, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Critics Say 'Biblioburro' Makes the Grade: Tune in Tonight!
    Biblioburro: The Donkey Library is the story of a unique librarian–and his library. Luis Soriano braves armed bands, drug traffickers, snakes and heat to bring his library on hooves to the children of Magdalena Province in Columbia. Read what critics have to say about the film.
    Alva French 1 min read July 19, 2011 Documentary News Comments
  • Doc Soup: Talking with Director Marshall Curry About the Sundance Film Festival
    For one week of the year, the genre that spends most of its time in the cultural margins moves to center stage. The Sundance Film Festival, which continues until this Saturday, places documentaries on a white hot pedestal, so I asked director Marshall Curry, whose POV film If a Tree Falls is premiering there, to […]
    Tom Roston 4 min read January 26, 2011 Doc Soup Comments
  • Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program Announces Fall 2009 Grants
    The Sundance Institute announced yesterday that they are awarding grants to 23 nonfiction film projects that will receive financial and creative support from the Sundance Documentary Film Program (DFP). One of the projects is directed by POV alum, Bernardo Ruiz, who co-produced Alex Rivera’s The Sixth Section (POV 2003) and worked on the first installment […]
    theresa 1 min read December 17, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month With POV
    September 15 – October 15 is Hispanic Heritage month! Started in 1968 (as Hispanic Heritage Week), the now month-long observation recognizes the contributions of Hispanic Americans to the United States. September 15th is the anniversary of independence for Costa Rica, El Salvador, Gautemala, Honduras and Nicaragua; Mexico and Chile also celebrate their independence days in […]
    Ruiyan Xu 4 min read September 12, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • The Judge and the General's Elizabeth Farnsworth Answers Viewer Questions
    Elizabeth Farnsworth, along with Patricio Lanfranco, directed The Judge and the General. After the film aired on POV, viewers wrote in with questions. Read on for Elizabeth’s responses. Sarah asks: To what extent do you believe that the members of the Chilean military were aware of what was going on during Pinochet’s reign, in terms […]
    Ruiyan Xu 3 min read August 27, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • What's Your POV about 'The Judge and the General'?
    The Judge and the General explores the criminal investigation of General Augusto Pinochet, who led a military regime in Chile for nearly 20 years. In 1973, Pinochet led a military coup that ousted the democratically elected president Salvador Allende. In the service of his anti-Communist crusade and with U.S. help, Pinochet’s military and intelligence community […]
    Ruiyan Xu 3 min read August 17, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • Ask the Filmmakers: The Judge and the General's Elizabeth Farnsworth and Patricio Lanfranco
    The Judge and the General filmmaker Patricio Lanfranco was 19 years old when General Augusto Pinochet overthrew the democratically elected Chilean president Salvadore Allende in 1973. His co-director, Elizabeth Farnsworth, had spent time filming in Chile in 1970, and some of the people she had met there were killed in the coup. Elizabeth and Patricio […]
    Ruiyan Xu 2 min read August 16, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • Doc Soup: Overlooked Docs of 2007
    Ah, the flush feeling of having a documentary that receives high accolades and big box office returns! As I mentioned last week, not many doc filmmakers have felt that way this year, which puts Charles Ferguson among the elite few. I was at a fancy screening and reception this week for his film No End […]
    Tom Roston 4 min read December 21, 2007 Doc Soup Comments