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  • POV to broadcast Sundance Favorites '306 Hollywood' and 'Minding the Gap' for 31st Season
    "The films we are planning to finish out our 31st season with are powerful examples of how documentary can reexamine and reanimate lives past and present."
    POV Pressroom 3 min read June 20, 2018 Press Room Comments
  • Doc Memo: Sundance 2017 Predictions, New Trailer for HBO's 'The Trans List'
    POV's daily list of essential reading for the documentary and independent filmmaking community.
    POV Staff 2 min read November 16, 2016 Documentary News Comments
  • March (of the Docs) Madness 2015
    Legends, stirring storylines and passionate fans are a few of the commonalities between college basketball and documentary filmmaking. 32 documentary symbols go head to head in our March Madness tournament. Vote now!
    Tom Roston 5 min read March 15, 2015 Doc Soup Comments
  • Sundance and Beyond: Doc Watch 2015
    Doc Soup Man shares his list of documentaries he's looking forward to in 2015, including three premiering at Sundance Film Festival, beginning on Thursday, January 22, 2015.
    Tom Roston 5 min read January 21, 2015 Doc Soup Comments
  • After Passing Up a Shot at Sundance, Documentary Filmmaker Yance Ford Receives a MacArthur
    "I actually followed my own advice and didn't cut for a deadline." - Strong Island filmmaker Yance Ford
    Tom Roston 5 min read October 28, 2014 Doc Soup Comments
  • Watch Now! Irma & The Whistle – Two New Documentary Shorts from POV
    Watch the CPH:DOX SHORT:DOX Award-winning Irma by Charles Fairbanks and the Sundance Film Festival Short Film Grand Jury Prize-winning The Whistle by Grzegorz Zariczny.
    POV Staff 1 min read April 7, 2014 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Festival Madness
    Sundance is behind us, SXSW is on now, Tribeca and Full Frame are coming up soon. Doc Soup Man has his picks from the past and future festivals that will set the documentary viewing agenda for the rest of the year.
    Tom Roston 4 min read March 10, 2014 Doc Soup 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
  • 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
  • Sundance 2013: Blood Brother Finishes Strong Winning Audience Award and Grand Jury Prize
    Sundance closed with a bang this weekend, at least for Blood Brother. Will the wins be enough to secure distribution?
    Tom Roston 4 min read January 28, 2013 Doc Soup Comments
  • Sundance 2013: Which Way is the Front Line From Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington
    Which Way is the Front Line From Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington (dir. Sebastian Junger) To kick off the Sundance Festival, I wrote about must-see documentary, Fire in the Blood, which is playing there. It is a documentary that needs to be seen because it addresses a crisis—the dying of millions of […]
    Tom Roston 2 min read January 20, 2013 Doc Soup Comments
  • Sundance 2013: Senior Programmer Caroline Libresco
    Part 2 of 2: Tom Roston interviews Sundance Film Festival Senior Programmers David Courier and Caroline Libresco about documentaries to watch out for at this year's festival, which begins today.
    Tom Roston 4 min read January 18, 2013 Doc Soup Comments
  • Sundance 2013: Senior Programmer David Courier
    Part 1 of 2: Tom Roston interviews Sundance Film Festival Senior Programmers David Courier and Caroline Libresco about documentaries to watch out for at this year's festival, which begins today.
    Tom Roston 5 min read January 18, 2013 Doc Soup Comments
  • Sundance 2013: R.J. Cutler's The World According to Dick Cheney
    Tom Roston is surprised to learn The World According to Dick Cheney directed by R.J. Cutler - screening at Sundance 2013 - isn't quite the hatchet job he thought it would be.
    Tom Roston 3 min read January 16, 2013 Doc Soup Comments
  • Fire in the Blood: A Must-See Film at Sundance
    Tom Roston spells out why 'Fire in the Blood' should be on everyone's must-see doc list at Sundance this year.
    Tom Roston 3 min read January 15, 2013 Doc Soup Comments
  • A Documentary Dream Team (The 2013 Sundance U.S. Documentary Jury)
    It's Sundance season, and Tom Roston is looking West to the all-star documentary jury of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival
    Tom Roston 3 min read January 7, 2013 Doc Soup Comments
  • A Documentary Twitterthon Roundup
    SundanceNow hosted a "Twitterthon" to promote its new VOD documentary subscription service, Doc Club. Doc fans took to Twitter to discuss distribution platforms, the audience experience and favorite films.
    Heather McIntosh 3 min read May 11, 2012 Documentary News Comments
  • The Sundance 2012 Documentary Winners
    Any documentary filmmaker will tell you that getting a film into Sundance is a Herculean achievement in itself, but some also come away with an award. Check out a rundown of the 13 prizes given to documentaries at this year's festival.
    Tom Roston 4 min read January 30, 2012 Doc Soup Comments

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