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  • Sundance 2014: Five Major Documentary Takeaways
    Doc Soup Man Tom Roston shares the biggest documentary news from the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.
    Tom Roston 6 min read January 24, 2014 Doc Soup Comments
  • Thom Powers on SundanceNOW's Doc Club
    The indie film and documentary lovers over at SundanceNOW cooked up a fun idea, a doc club -- you know, like a book club. It's an engaging way of trying to wed the exploding world of online viewing and the many people who are passionate about watching documentaries.
    Tom Roston 5 min read October 16, 2012 Doc Soup Comments
  • Giveaway: Win a Pair of Tickets to See 'Girl Model' at Stranger Than Fiction in NYC
    New York City-area documentary fans! We're giving away a pair of tickets to see Girl Model at the documentary screening series Stranger Than Fiction.
    POV Staff 11 min read March 15, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • A Holiday Gift Guide for Documentary Fans and Documentarians
    Watch, Make, Learn! This year give the gift of documentaries. For once, we mean it literally!
    POV Staff 10 min read December 9, 2011 Documentary News Comments
  • Doc Soup: 'MEGAMALL' Co-Directors on the Ongoing Fight Between Communities and Mall Developers
    If you’re like me, you can let down your guard at times. Take, for example, when I am visiting my wife’s family in Hawaii. We often go to the Ala Moana Mall, a vast sprawl of shopping decadence, and I have great time there. I become oblivious to the manic push of capitalism and the […]
    Tom Roston 11 min read May 21, 2011 Doc Soup Comments
  • DOC NYC: Now Through Tuesday, November 9
    Ladies and gents, there’s a new festival in town. Last night the inaugural edition of DOC NYC kicked off in a big way, featuring Werner Herzog and his breathtaking 3-D documentary Cave of Forgotten Dreams. Opening with such a mammoth (no prehistory-pun intended) piece of work is quite a statement about the goals and scope […]
    Andrew Catauro 1 min read November 4, 2010 Documentary News Comments