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  • 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
  • 'The Interrupters' Takes Top Two Prizes at Cinema Eye Honors 2012
    On a rainy evening in Queens, New York, a group of documentary luminaries got together to celebrate the 2012 Cinema Eye Honors, a five-year-old awards show for nonfiction filmmaking.
    Adam Schartoff 4 min read January 13, 2012 Documentary News Comments
  • Documentary Year in Review Countdown #5: War Documentarian Tim Hetherington ('Restrepo') Killed in Action
    POV is counting down the top documentary stories of 2011 on New Year's Eve 2012.
    Emily Thomas 1 min read December 31, 2011 Documentary News Comments
  • Documentary vs. Video Art: Catching Up with RISD's Dennis Hlynsky
    The long-time digital video professor ponders the connection between new technology and the widening gap between filmmakers and video artists.
    Edward J. Delaney 6 min read November 15, 2011 Documentary News Comments
  • Director Danfung Dennis on 'Hell and Back Again'
    Danfung Dennis talks to blogger Adam Schartoff about how a documentary about combat in Afghanistan became a documentary about coming home from war, making the transition from photojournalist to filmmaker, and the impact of Tim Hetherington's death.
    Adam Schartoff 6 min read October 13, 2011 Documentary News Comments
  • Doc Soup: What 'Armadillo,' 'The Tillman Story' and 'Restrepo' Teach Us
    POV's Doc Soup Man, Tom Roston, revisits three recent documentaries about war.
    Tom Roston 4 min read August 29, 2011 Doc Soup Comments
  • Tim Hetherington Was One of Many Documentarians Who've Died or Were Killed on the Job
    Tim Hetherington(Photo by Justin Hoch) The tragic death of war photographer and documentarian Tim Hetherington last month in Libya was widely covered in the press. Deserved honorifics came to him for his work, particularly his fantastic 2010 documentary, Restrepo, which he co-directed with Sebastian Junger. If you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend you give […]
    Tom Roston 4 min read June 7, 2011 Doc Soup Comments