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  • 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
  • Why Ewing & Grady Are Choosing to Self-Distribute 'Detropia'
    The filmmaking team behind The Boys of Baraka, Jesus Camp and 12th & Delaware tells Doc Soup Man why they're self-distributing their new documentary, the lyrical Detropia.
    Tom Roston 8 min read May 30, 2012 Doc Soup Comments
  • What DIY Film Distributors Can Learn from the Launch of the Joffrey Documentary
    Sheri Candler and Jon Reiss offered tips for getting a documentary to a niche group of viewers who might not be found through a traditional film distribution channel.
    Edward J. Delaney 3 min read March 31, 2012 Documentary News Comments
  • POV & Firelight Media Summit: Sustaining a Career as a Public Media Maker
    Firelight Media's Shoshone Johnson recaps a day of practical advice for documentary film producers, held at POV's office on Friday, February 17, 2012.
    POV Guest Blogger 5 min read February 22, 2012 Documentary News Comments
  • Kickstarter Campaign Secrets from Record-Breaking Documentary Director Jennifer Fox
    Jennifer Fox raised a record-breaking $150,000 on Kickstarter - the most raised for a finished film and the most per donor. Watch the interview with Fox to find out how she did it.
    POV Staff 1 min read January 5, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • 12 Small-Town Documentary Film Festivals for 2012
    A roundup of the nation's best small-town film festivals (with populations less than 100,000) for escaping the crowds, paparazzi and hype.
    Emily Thomas 9 min read January 3, 2012 Documentary News Comments
  • Holiday Crowd-Fundraising Tips from 7 Documentary Insiders
    The holiday season is no holiday for documentary producers looking to raise funds, but some documentarians say it's as good a time as any.
    Adam Schartoff 6 min read December 20, 2011 Documentary News Comments
  • Good Storytelling Takes Time
    The news and documentary forms are complementary, but as guest blogger Heather McIntosh explains, popular online news is failing to lay a foundation for deeper inquiry.
    Heather McIntosh 5 min read November 29, 2011 Documentary News Comments
  • The Elusive 'General' Audience
    In a second post in a series on finding an audience for your documentary, Edward J. Delaney looks at how an emphasis on your film's storyline can help you grow your audience beyond a small core of fans.
    Edward J. Delaney 7 min read October 19, 2011 Documentary News Comments
  • Cultivating Micro-Audiences
    Edward J. Delaney explains how to use the Pyramid of Audience Interest to define and expand your doc's niche audience.
    Edward J. Delaney 8 min read October 17, 2011 Documentary News Comments
  • How Digital Subscriptions Are Altering Our Relationships with Media
    With independent distributors entering the digital subscription market, guest blogger Heather McIntosh considers questions of access, curation and ownership that emerge from consumers discarding their DVD collections for Netflix membership.
    Heather McIntosh 6 min read October 4, 2011 Documentary News Comments
  • Dynamo, Distrify & Distribber: Documentarians Test New Tools for Direct Distribution Online
    The filmmakers behind the documentaries Until the Light Takes Us and Wake Up share their experiences with DIY video-on-demand.
    Edward J. Delaney 9 min read September 22, 2011 Documentary News Comments
  • The Critics: Documentary Distributors' Best Friends
    Do you know who a documentary distributor’s best friend is? The film critic, that’s who. Take a look at 2010’s ten best reviewed films of the year at rottentomatoes.com: Marwencol Waste Land GasLand Toy Story 3 How to Train Your Dragon Exit Through the Gift Shop The Social Network Inside Job Mugabe and the White […]
    Tom Roston 2 min read January 10, 2011 Doc Soup Comments
  • Doc Soup: What Does SnagFilms Mean for the Future of Documentary Distribution?
    Last week, there was a big splash in the small pool that is the Internet documentary film community. A new site called Snagfilms was launched by former AOL vice chairman Ted Leonsis, ex-AOL chief Steve Case and venture capitalist Miles Gilburne. Heavy hitters, indeed. The site allows people like you and me to watch docs […]
    Tom Roston 2 min read July 21, 2008 Doc Soup Comments
  • Doc Soup: On Docs, Distribution and the Cinematic Experience
    Last week, two docs from 2007, What Would Jesus Buy? and Darfur Now were released on DVD. They both disappointed at the box office. I think I know why. I don’t like to knock a doc when it’s down, but when I noticed that they were both hitting DVD shelves, I thought there’s something worth […]
    Tom Roston 3 min read June 2, 2008 Doc Soup Comments
  • For Filmmakers: What Does POV Look For in a Film?
    One of the questions we’re asked most often here at POV is: “What do you look for in a POV film anyway?” Every year, more than 1,000 films compete for 12-15 slots on the POV broadcast schedule, so what’s a documentary filmmaker to do if she wants to fill one of those coveted slots? As […]
    Yance Ford 6 min read December 12, 2007 Documentary News Comments

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