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  • Doc Memo: Webby Award Winners Announced, Tribeca Film Festival Recap
    POV's daily list of essential reading for the documentary and independent filmmaking community.
    POV Staff 3 min read April 26, 2016 Documentary News Comments
  • POV Interactive Documentaries Nominated for a 2015 Webby Award!
    POV Interactive Shorts are up for a 2015 Webby Award and we need your help to win!
    POV Staff 2 min read April 7, 2015 POV Films Blog Comments
  • POV Reimagines the Documentary – Again
    Cross-posted from Knight Blog, the blog of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Since its earliest days, POV has been an exercise in bridging independent voices and the public by offering new tools and technology for storytelling and engagement.
    POV Staff 4 min read April 10, 2014 POV Films Blog Comments
  • POV's “Girl Model” Is Nominated for a 2014 Webby Award! Help Us Win!
    Vote by April 24 for the online documentary that's been called "essential viewing for adolescent girls," "a brilliant exposé of a dangerous business," and "an alarming documentary about the trafficking of Russian child models."
    POV Staff 3 min read April 9, 2014 POV Films Blog Comments
  • POV is an Official Honoree in the 17th Annual Webby Awards
    POV is an Official Honoree in the Online Film & Video: Documentary Series category of the 17th Annual Webby Awards.
    POV Staff 1 min read April 16, 2013 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Vote for Women, War and Peace Doc Shorts and Other PBS Webby Award Nominees
    Voting for the People's Voice Award for the 16th Annual Webby Awards will close tomorrow, April 26, 2012, so register and get to voting for your favorite PBS websites!
    POV Staff 2 min read April 25, 2012 Documentary News Comments
  • 2012 Webby Award Nominees in the Documentary and Social Issue Categories
    The Webby Awards has announced its nominees for 2012, and the list of honorees includes StoryCorps Shorts: September 11 Stories!
    POV Staff 3 min read April 10, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Where Are the First-Person Women Documentarians?
    With Tiffany Shlain's personal documentary Connected wrapping up its theatrical run, Doc Soup Man Tom Roston asks why the best known first-person documentarians are men.
    Tom Roston 3 min read December 15, 2011 Doc Soup Comments
  • POV Nominated for a Webby!
    We are so excited to announce that we’ve been nominated for a 2009 Webby Award in the Movies and Film category! We’re also thrilled to have been nominated alongside stellar sites for Coraline, Pangea Day, IFC and Sundance. Check out the full list of nominees on the Webby Awards’ website. This is our sixth nomination […]
    Ruiyan Xu 0 min read April 14, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • Watching and Reading: Week of November 26, 2007
    Each week, we’ll highlight links from the “Watching” and “Reading” sidebars on the right side of the page. WATCHING Michael Moore’s Sicko named Best Documentary at the 17th annual Gotham Awards on Tuesday night. The Webby Awards name 12 “most influential online videos of all time.” Watch daily reports from the International Documentary Film Festival […]
    theresa 1 min read November 30, 2007 Documentary News Comments