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  • Doc Memo: Independent Filmmaking on Snapchat, Capturing the Kennedys with Drew Associates
    POV’s daily list of essential reading for the documentary and independent filmmaking community.
    POV Staff 3 min read April 29, 2016 Documentary News Comments
  • POV's Justine Nagan speaks at DOC NYC
    Justine Nagan shared insights into her new role as executive director/executive producer of POV and reflections on her days at Kartemquin Films yesterday atDOC NYC’s Insiders Conference.
    POV Pressroom 1 min read November 19, 2015 Press Room Comments
  • The Must-See Documentaries at This Year's DOC NYC Festival
    Doc Soup Man picks his top four documentaries for this year's festival.
    Tom Roston 3 min read November 14, 2014 Doc Soup Comments
  • Thom Powers on 'The Look of Silence,' and How the Toronto Film Fest's Conference Is Tackling the Digital Documentary Landscape
    Michael Moore, Joshua Oppenheimer, Marc Schiller and Astra Taylor will be a part of the Toronto International Film Festival's Doc Conference, Sept 9-10, 2014.
    Tom Roston 5 min read August 14, 2014 Doc Soup 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
  • 6 Intentionally Provocative Questions Intended to Stir Up Toronto Film Festival Documentary Programmer Thom Powers
    Doc Soup Man asks six intentionally provocative questions about this year's slate to Thom Powers, documentary programmer at the Toronto International Film Festival.
    Tom Roston 4 min read September 5, 2013 Doc Soup Comments
  • “Blacklisting,” Free Speech, and, Well, Huh
    In a online video, Caveh Zahedi (The Sheik & I) claims he was "blacklisted" by festival programmer Thom Powers, who responded saying the filmmaker "can't seem to accept that he's made a film with a mixed response."
    Heather McIntosh 3 min read December 8, 2012 Documentary News Comments
  • A Preview of DOC NYC 2012
    Four highlights from the upcoming New York City documentary festival (November 8 - 15, 2012) and a chance to win a pair of tickets to attend select screenings.
    Adam Schartoff 13 min read November 6, 2012 Documentary News 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
  • An Overview of the Docs at TIFF
    With the Toronto International Film Festival having kicked off at the end of last week, Tom Roston provides a short list of his must-see docs in the festival this year.
    Tom Roston 3 min read September 10, 2012 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
  • DOC NYC 2011 Preview
    New York's fall documentary festival is back for a second year, with galas Into the Abyss, Lemon and The Island President and a tribute to cinéma vérité pioneer Richard Leacock.
    Adam Schartoff 4 min read October 27, 2011 Documentary News 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
  • A Video Interview with Thom Powers, Part 1
    POV’s series producer Yance Ford interviews Thom Powers, filmmaker, documentary programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival and the founder and curator of the Stranger than Fiction documentary series in New York. I sat down recently with Thom Powers — filmmaker, documentary programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival and the founder and curator of […]
    Yance Ford 1 min read October 1, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • Link Roundup
    MoMA’s retrospective of Kim Longinotto‘s work starts this week. This is a rare chance to see all of Kim’s masterful films in America, and to hear from Kim herself — she is considered one of the foremost vérité filmmakers in the documentary world. Kim’s film Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go will air on POV […]
    Ruiyan Xu 2 min read May 7, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • I've Got My Eyes on You
    POV series producer Yance Ford will be presenting one of the awards at the Cinema Eye Honors ceremony this weekend. The second annual Cinema Eye Honors ceremony will take place this Sunday, March 29th at the Times Center in Manhattan. Hatched from the brain of filmmaker AJ Schnack, Cinema Eye sprouted up last year in […]
    Yance Ford 2 min read March 27, 2009 Documentary News Comments