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  • Apply to POV Hackathon 3 by March 12!
    POV Hackathon 3 will take place April 13-14, 2013, in New York City. If you're a filmmaker, developer or designer interested in cross-platform, web-based storytelling, apply to be part of it by March 12!
    POV Staff 1 min read February 20, 2013 Documentary News Comments
  • POV Hackathon 2: View Eight Web Storytelling Prototypes
    View the documentary prototypes made over the span of a single weekend by teams of filmmakers, developers and designers.
    POV Staff 9 min read January 17, 2013 POV Films Blog Comments
  • The POV Hackathon 2 Award Winners
    Three teams at this weekend's POV Hackathon 2 walked away with awards for Participants' Choice, Best Prototype and Best Pitch.
    Emma Dessau 2 min read January 14, 2013 Documentary News Comments
  • POV Hackathon 2: Meet the Hackers from “How to Lose Your Virginity”
    In a series of blog posts, we're introducing you to the participating filmmakers, developers and designers for the POV Hackathon 2.
    POV Staff 4 min read January 11, 2013 POV Films Blog Comments
  • POV Hackathon 2: Meet the Hackers from “The Human Experiment”
    In this first in a series of blog posts, we're introducing you to the participants and their goals for POV Hackathon 2.
    POV Staff 6 min read January 11, 2013 POV Films Blog Comments
  • POV Hackathon 2: Meet the Hackers from “Empire”
    In a series of blog posts, we're introducing you to the participating filmmakers, developers and designers for the POV Hackathon 2.
    POV Staff 4 min read January 11, 2013 POV Films Blog Comments
  • POV Hackathon 2: Meet the Hackers from “The Whiteness Project”
    In a series of blog posts, we're introducing you to the participating filmmakers, developers and designers for the POV Hackathon 2. Meet Whitney Dow of The Whiteness Project.
    POV Staff 4 min read January 10, 2013 POV Films Blog Comments
  • POV Hackathon 2: Meet the Hackers from “Feed Me a Story”
    In a series of blog posts, we're introducing you to the participating filmmakers, developers and designers for the POV Hackathon 2.
    POV Staff 5 min read January 10, 2013 POV Films Blog Comments
  • POV Hackathon 2: Meet the Hackers from “Faith in the Five Boroughs”
    Faith in the Five Boroughs documents the role that faith and religious communities play in the lives of immigrants and their children.
    POV Staff 5 min read January 9, 2013 POV Films Blog Comments
  • POV Hackathon 2: Meet the Hackers from “Cpm-703”
    In Cpm-703, a Fukushima-born artist journeys into Japan's nuclear winter revealing the warmth and strength of survivors coping with the fallout.
    POV Staff 3 min read January 9, 2013 POV Films Blog Comments
  • POV Hackathon 2: Know Your Hackers, “Data Docs”
    In this first in a series of blog posts, we're introducing you to the participants and their goals for POV Hackathon 2.
    POV Staff 4 min read January 9, 2013 POV Films Blog Comments
  • How They Made “The Aatsinki Season”
    We asked filmmaker Jessica Oreck and interactive developers Mike Knowlton and Hal Seigel how they generated the ideas that became the interactive project and how they managed their collaboration.
    Emma Dessau 7 min read January 8, 2013 Documentary News Comments
  • POV Hackathon 2: The Projects!
    For POV Hackathon 2, teams of filmmakers and developers will be challenged to create web documentary prototypes in a single weekend. Here's more about the eight selected projects.
    POV Staff 2 min read January 7, 2013 POV Films Blog Comments
  • POV Hackathon Submission Tips for Filmmakers
    What makes a great POV Hackathon application? (And what makes a bad one?) POV Digital Director Adnaan Wasey offers tips for would-be storytelling innovators.
    POV Staff 3 min read December 4, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Announcing POV Hackathon 2 – January 12-13, 2013
    Bold filmmakers with a digital vision need apply! The POV Hackathon 2 Call for Participants is now open. Apply by Friday, December 7, 2012.
    POV Staff 1 min read November 15, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • POV Hackathon: A Video Recap
    View a video recap of the POV Hackathon, produced by EdLab at Columbia University's Teachers College.
    POV Staff 1 min read August 22, 2012 Documentary News Comments
  • Five Insights on Hacking Films from the Software Developers Who've Done It
    Before the POV Hackathon got underway, mentors and veteran engineers shared with the teams some advice born of experience. Here's what they were told...
    POV Staff 2 min read August 16, 2012 Documentary News Comments
  • POV Hackathon: Five Documentary Prototypes From a Weekend of Hacking
    View the prototypes from POV Hackathon: Participate in an online debate with film characters, browse a documentary cookbook, find new meaning in numbers from news headlines, be moved by audio storytelling powered by live news and events, and explore the multimedia branches of a film from 1984.
    POV Staff 4 min read August 14, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments

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