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  • The Making of Priya's Shakti
    Jaya Mahajan discusses the making of Priya's Shakti, a multimedia project combating attitudes towards sexual assault, with producer Ram Devineni.
    POV Guest Blogger 8 min read January 22, 2015 Documentary News Comments
  • Meet the Programmers Behind the Flaherty NYC Winter/Spring 2015 Series
    This season's Flaherty NYC's series begins in January with the theme "That Obscure Object of Desire." Programmers Pacho Velez and Sierra Pettengill discuss choosing films that explore "the mysterious power of objects."
    Rebecca Swanberg 9 min read January 16, 2015 Documentary News Comments
  • Regarding Independent Film on THIRTEEN and WLIW21
    A joint statement WNET, PBS, ITVS, Independent Lens and POV regarding independent film on THIRTEEN and WLIW21.
    POV Staff 1 min read December 22, 2014 POV Films Blog 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
  • Tom Roston's Top 10 Documentaries of 2014
    Without any throat clearing about how this was yet another great year for docs -- which it was, by the way -- I present my favorite nonfiction films of 2014
    Tom Roston 5 min read December 22, 2014 Doc Soup Comments
  • The Best Documentaries of 2014
    What's the best documentary of 2014? We're tracking festivals, critics, blogs, award shows and more to determine the top docs of the year.
    POV Staff 3 min read December 18, 2014 Documentary News Comments
  • Passing the Baton: A Conversation with Engagement Strategist Lina Srivastava
    Who Is Dayani Cristal campaign strategist Lina Srivastava gives us an inside look on her team's goals for campaign and tips for other impact producers on "passing the baton."
    Alice Quinlan 7 min read December 12, 2014 Documentary News Comments
  • Dispatches from IDFA: All the Young Dudes
    Kel O'Neill discusses the lack of diversity at the IDFA DocLab conference, and the effect of its absence.
    Kel O'Neill 6 min read November 26, 2014 Documentary News Comments
  • Dispatches from IDFA: The Third Entity
    "My green button-down has been replaced by a grey pullover. Also, I am a woman." Kel O'Neill experiences life as the opposite gender in IDFA DocLab's gender-bending experiment The Machine To Be Another.
    Kel O'Neill 6 min read November 21, 2014 Documentary News Comments
  • Dispatches from IDFA: Research and Development
    IDFA DocLab is a paradise for innovative storytelling, but who should foot the bill?
    Kel O'Neill 7 min read November 20, 2014 Documentary News Comments
  • Congrats to the BRITDOC Impact Award Winners
    POV gives a huge round of applause to this year's BRITDOC Impact Award winners! The BRITDOC Impact Award celebrates documentary films that have made the greatest impact on society.
    POV Staff 3 min read November 20, 2014 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Dispatches from IDFA: A Conversation with DocLab Architect Caspar Sonnen
    Kel O'Neill (of Jongsma + O'Neill) sits down with IDFA DocLab creator Caspar Sonnen to discuss DocLab, digital storytelling, and the 'medium' of interactive documentaries — if it can be defined as a 'medium' at all.
    Kel O'Neill 11 min read November 20, 2014 Documentary News Comments
  • Life on the Streets of Palestine Captured in 'Points Of View'
    An interactive web documentary aims to help Palestinians present the anger, pain, joy and hope of their daily lives to both Israelis and the international public.
    Shako Liu 2 min read November 17, 2014 Documentary News Comments
  • Enter the Edit: 'Tough Love' with Editors Colin Nusbaum and Mary Manhardt
    Editors Colin Nusbaum and Mary Manhardt break down the edit of Stephanie Wang-Breal's documentary Tough Love, premiering November 15, 2014 in New York City at DOC NYC.
    Emma Dessau 12 min read November 13, 2014 Documentary News Comments
  • Old Film Made New: 'Living Los Sures'
    UnionDocs breathes new life into the 1980s urban film Los Sures with web-based multimedia. Two new chapters premiered at New York Film Festival Convergence.
    Shako Liu 2 min read November 12, 2014 Documentary News Comments
  • Three Tips for Diverse Filmmakers Seeking Documentary Funding
    Are you an emerging filmmaker of color? Funders are looking for you! Here are a few tips to help them find you.
    Shako Liu 3 min read November 11, 2014 Documentary News Comments
  • After Battling Chinese Authorities and a Tight Budget, a First-Time Filmmaker Emerges
    "I made the dive from being on the top of my game—radio—back to the bottom as a newbie, self-trained filmmaker." - Jocelyn Ford, Nowhere To Call Home: A Tibetan in Beijing
    Shako Liu 8 min read November 11, 2014 Documentary News Comments
  • Forever, Directed by Heddy Honigmann
    Inside the gates of the Parisian graveyard, breezes ruffle the leaves of chestnut trees, pigeons scatter in a fluttering of wings and sun-dappled stone paths wind from plot to plot.
    Cassandra Jensen 4 min read October 8, 2014 Documentary News Comments

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