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  • Enter the Edit: Activating Feelings of Immediacy and Intimacy With a Film
    How to make the audience feel like they're in the moment.
    Eileen Meyer 10 min read December 7, 2016 Documentary News Comments
  • Doc Memo: 21st Century's Top Films (So Far), HBO to Premiere Charlie Hebdo Doc
    POV's daily list of essential reading for the documentary and independent filmmaking community.
    POV Staff 2 min read August 23, 2016 Documentary News Comments
  • Regional Filmmakers With an International Footprint: 50 Years of Kartemquin Films
    Kartemquin Films co-founder Gordon Quinn shares the key to the Chicago production company's longevity.
    Tom Roston 5 min read August 18, 2016 Doc Soup Comments
  • First Look at 2016 Toronto International Film Festival's Documentary Lineup
    The 2016 nonfiction TIFF slate includes Werner Herzog, Errol Morris, Steve James and Leonardo DiCaprio.
    Tom Roston 14 min read August 9, 2016 Doc Soup Comments
  • Exhibit Highlights 50 years of Kartemquin Films History
    Is the personal political? Kartemquin Films retrospective engages visitors on this crucial question.
    Heather McIntosh 5 min read July 18, 2016 Documentary Site Comments
  • Doc Memo: 7 Ways Brexit May Impact British TV Industry, AFI DOCS Reminds Filmmakers of Transparency
    POV's daily list of essential reading for the documentary and independent filmmaking community.
    POV Staff 4 min read June 24, 2016 Documentary News Comments
  • Doc Memo: 'Hoop Dreams' Steve James on Sustainable Filmmaking, Hulu to Offer Cable Service Online
    POV’s daily list of essential reading for the documentary and independent filmmaking community.
    POV Staff 3 min read May 2, 2016 Documentary News Comments
  • Hollywood's Opportunity for a Referendum on Scientology
    Alex Gibney's documentary Going Clear is giving Hollywood the chance to say, "This Scientology crap isn't what we're about."
    Tom Roston 4 min read October 28, 2015 Doc Soup Comments
  • Watching Kartemquin Films
    Kartemquin Films has a strong Chicago connection, and many of its documentaries are about the city and its people in some way.
    Heather McIntosh 3 min read February 18, 2015 Documentary Site Comments
  • Documentary Community Gathers at 2015 Cinema Eye Honors
    If there is ever a question whether or not there's an actual community of documentary filmmakers, the first bit of evidence should be the Cinema Eye Honors.
    Tom Roston 5 min read January 8, 2015 Doc Soup Comments
  • With 'Life Itself,' Steve James Has Earned the Right to Oscar
    He's already been robbed of one. After decades of making documentaries, Steve James has earned the right to be recognized with an Oscar.
    Tom Roston 5 min read December 16, 2014 Doc Soup Comments
  • We the Economy
    This new online documentary series is striving to explain the economy through 20 short films.
    Heather McIntosh 2 min read October 30, 2014 Documentary Site Comments
  • #365Docs: Hoop Dreams (1/365)
    A memorable sports documentary requires two things: goosebumps and a good story.
    Heather McIntosh 3 min read February 8, 2014 Documentary Site Comments
  • Sundance 2014: StoryCorps Dispatches from Park City
    StoryCorps dispatches from the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on all things animation & documentary.
    POV Staff 6 min read January 24, 2014 Documentary News Comments
  • “Tell Me Something” Features Advice From Fifty of the World's Best Documentary Filmmakers
    Doc Soup Man interviews Jessica Edwards, editor of "Tell me Something," an in-progress photography and creative advice book from fifty of the world's best documentary filmmakers.
    Tom Roston 5 min read March 18, 2013 Doc Soup 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

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