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  • Why It's Important to Be Open to Experimentation as a Film Editor
    Geoffrey Richman shares why experimenting with ideas in the edit room can lead to great discoveries.
    Leigh Johnson 11 min read December 18, 2017 Documentary News Comments
  • Louie Psihoyos Projects Endangered Animals on the Side of the Empire State Building, But This Could Get Even Bigger
    If you looked up this weekend, you might have seen something extraordinary. On Saturday night, The Cove director Louie Psihoyos put on an event in which he and a team of collaborators projected images, some moving, of endangered species onto the Empire State Building. The creatures got their due, and, hopefully, will get a chance to be brought back from going extinct.
    Tom Roston 3 min read August 3, 2015 Doc Soup Comments
  • Sundance 2015: Doc Buzz, Acquistions and More
    Sundance 2015 is underway! Here's the word on how documentaries are fairing this year in Park City.
    Tom Roston 3 min read January 26, 2015 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
  • 'Chasing Ice' Documents Melting Ice Caps With Chilling Results
    Tom Roston reviews Jeff Orlowski's visually-striking Chasing Ice, a film about environmental photographer James Balog’s quest to document the melting of our ice caps through time lapse photography.
    Tom Roston 3 min read November 8, 2012 Doc Soup Comments
  • Four More Reasons Why Critics Favor Docs
    In response to Indiewire's claim that critics favor documentaries, Heather McIntosh offers four more reasons why docs have cachet.
    Heather McIntosh 3 min read July 5, 2012 Documentary News Comments
  • Documentary Films? That's Entertainment!
    Documentaries have started to assert that they, like their Hollywood cousins, can be more than simply 'engaging.' Doc Soup Man Tom Roston says they can be entertaining diversions too.
    Tom Roston 9 min read April 3, 2012 Doc Soup 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
  • 'More Than A Month' Channels Moore, Spurlock and Woody Allen in Journey to End Black History Month
    Edward J. Delaney talks to director Shukree Tilghman about his tongue-in-cheek cross-country campaign (and documentary) to end Black History Month.
    Edward J. Delaney 4 min read January 28, 2012 Documentary News Comments
  • Sundance 2012: The Man Behind the Docs Selling at Sundance
    So far, who’s the most important person in docs at Sundance this year? A festival organizer? A doc subject? A director? Or none of the above?
    Tom Roston 2 min read January 23, 2012 Doc Soup Comments
  • The 2011 Documentary Oscars: My Shortlist
    Doc Soup Man Tom Roston proposes an entirely different list of 15 films that could have just as easily been deemed Oscar-worthy.
    POV Staff 4 min read November 28, 2011 Documentary News Comments
  • The Elusive 'General' Audience
    In a second post in a series on finding an audience for your documentary, Edward J. Delaney looks at how an emphasis on your film's storyline can help you grow your audience beyond a small core of fans.
    Edward J. Delaney 7 min read October 19, 2011 Documentary News Comments
  • Could Documentaries Form the Core of the Cross-Platform Story Revolution?
    As audiences come to expect interaction along with media consumption, "old" media is showing documentarians the potential for video as a tent pole in cross-media storytelling.
    Edward J. Delaney 6 min read September 29, 2011 Documentary News Comments
  • Finding Depth in Documentary Film
    Guest blogger Edward J. Delaney distinguishes between 'art' and 'craft' in documentary film and singles out James March (Man on Wire, Project Nim) as being as close to an artist as anyone working in the form today.
    Edward J. Delaney 7 min read August 24, 2011 Documentary News Comments
  • Doc Soup: 10 Documentaries About Animals that Every Human Animal Should See
    Independent journalist Tom Roston's list of top animal documentaries is sure to ruffle a few feathers. Read Doc Soup Man's mini-reviews then vote for your own favorite!
    Tom Roston 4 min read August 17, 2011 Doc Soup Comments
  • Doc Soup: Top 10 Doc Films with a Social Agenda
    We’ve been talking a lot lately in the Doc Soup kitchen about really well made documentaries that actually effect change, so I’ve compiled a list of the Most Aesthetically Accomplished Documentary Films that Come with a Social Agenda. I’m not going to include war documentaries, although there happen to be several excellent ones (Operation Homecoming: […]
    Tom Roston 4 min read October 12, 2010 Doc Soup Comments
  • Doc Soup: Docs of 2009: The Year in Review
    As another year comes to a close, we have another opportunity to look back at what was. It is also, of course, the end of a decade, which is even more tempting to reflect upon — but let’s keep our eye on the recent past for a moment here. Just take a look at the […]
    Tom Roston 4 min read December 21, 2009 Doc Soup Comments