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  • Doc Memo: Gear of Best Cinematography Emmy Nominees, Doc on Aging Chinatown Residents
    POV's daily list of essential reading for the documentary and independent filmmaking community.
    POV Staff 3 min read July 15, 2016 Documentary News Comments
  • Doc Memo: Longer Content Exclusively on VR, 11 Films that should be at Cannes
    POV's daily list of essential reading for the documentary and independent filmmaking community.
    POV Staff 3 min read May 12, 2016 Documentary News Comments
  • The Year in Human Rights Video
    Madeleine Bair of WITNESS rounds up some of the year's most important moments in human rights footage.
    Madeleine Bair 8 min read December 22, 2014 Documentary News Comments
  • 2012: A Documentary Year in Review
    Twelve stories from 2012 that inspired, thrilled and surprised us. A recap of the year in documentary news.
    POV Staff 13 min read December 18, 2012 Documentary News Comments
  • Years After a Festival Run, 'U.N. Me' Filmmakers Take a DIY Path to a Theatrical Release
    U.N. Me, the first film from director/producers Ami Horowitz and Matt Groff, had a modest festival run starting in 2009. Now, almost three years later, they've raised the money to release the film themselves.
    Tom Roston 5 min read May 31, 2012 Doc Soup Comments
  • KONY 2012: New Video Answers Critiques, But Lacks Predecessor's Panache
    Invisible Children's sequel to its viral video has less of the mania of its first narrator, and a more tempered message about Joseph Kony and the Lord's Resistance Army.
    Heather McIntosh 5 min read April 6, 2012 Documentary News Comments
  • KONY 2012: Analyzing the Viral Documentary Video
    Documentary Site's Heather McIntosh deconstructs the advocacy video by Invisible Children that's been flooding your Facebook and Twitter feeds.
    Heather McIntosh 9 min read March 10, 2012 Documentary News Comments
  • Documentary Year in Review Countdown #2: The Stop Online Piracy Act Catches the Web Off Guard
    POV is counting down the top documentary stories of 2011 on New Year's Eve 2012.
    POV Staff 2 min read December 31, 2011 Documentary News Comments
  • Documentary Year in Review Countdown #10: 'Life In A Day,' a Documentary Culled from 80,000 Filmmakers, Premieres Online
    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
  • How Prosumer Cameras, Apple and YouTube Have Changed Documentary Storytelling in the 10 Years Since 9/11
    Edward J. Delaney of DocumentaryTech looks at how far digital technology has come in the last 10 years, from the Naudet brothers' 9/11 to the crowdsourced #18DaysInEgypt.
    Edward J. Delaney 5 min read September 8, 2011 Documentary News Comments
  • This is My Family – Announcing the Judges
    We are excited to announce our This is My Family jury members — journalists, filmmakers, songwriters and adoption experts including CNN’s Soledad O’Brien, Dr. Jane Aronson, Zara Phillips and Phil Bertelsen to name just a few. Check out the full list here: This Is My Family: The Jury. This is your chance to dig into […]
    POV Staff 1 min read November 1, 2010 Documentary News Comments
  • Doc Soup: Life in a Day
    I tend to be optimistic. When I hear about an exciting new documentary in the works, I immediately think of the best of possibilities. And, not too surprisingly, perhaps, the higher my expectations, the more I am disappointed. That’s what came to mind when I heard about a cool (careful, Soup Man) documentary project announced […]
    Tom Roston 2 min read July 12, 2010 Doc Soup Comments
  • Video Interview with Patti Smith from the PBS Press Tour
    POV spent some time in Los Angeles earlier this month at the Television Critics Association Press Tour promoting our December special, Patti Smith: Dream of Life. PBS did some interviews with filmmakers, producers and featured subjects of upcoming PBS shows and films. You can find a full line-up of interviews — including filmmakers Ken Burns, […]
    theresa 1 min read August 11, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • Doc Soup: Musing on the Future of Docs
    Here are some doc-related links and musings that are on my mind: Other POVers who are on the ground at the ongoing Sundance are better placed than I am to discuss what’s hot and what’s not at the film festival. So this year, I’m reading about it from afar, and something in The New York […]
    Tom Roston 2 min read January 20, 2009 Doc Soup Comments
  • Doc Soup: Is It Time to Adjust Our Definition of Documentary “Characters”?
    Writing about documentaries ain’t what it used to be. Not that I would know — I’m just talking with my tongue in my cheek about the supposedly sepia-tinted times before docs were (relatively) big business. I recently wrote a piece for Spin magazine about the great doc, Anvil! The Story of Anvil, which is getting […]
    Tom Roston 3 min read September 29, 2008 Doc Soup Comments
  • Docs from the Past: 'Ilha das Flores'
    Inspired by the growing number of docs about food that have been coming out lately, POV staffer Jessica Lee recently took another look at an older film that inspired her. Recent documentaries such as The Price of Sugar, King Corn, and Black Gold address how food is inextricably linked to politics and social justice. For […]
    Jessica Lee 4 min read January 30, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • Film and Environmental Activism: Catching up with Everything's Cool's Judith Helfand and Daniel B. Gold
    Environmental issues are a hot topic this election year. David Nanasi caught up with POV alum Judith Helfand (A Healthy Baby Girl, POV 1997 and True Lives 2005, and The Uprising of ’34, POV 1995) and Daniel B. Gold to hear more about what they’ve been doing to support their latest film, Everything’s Cool. Both […]
    David Nanasi 6 min read January 29, 2008 Documentary News Comments

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