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Five Insights on Hacking Films from the Software Developers Who’ve Done It
August 17, 2012Originally published on the POV BlogSomewhat fresh off their own Hackathon, POV’s Adnaan Wasey offers filmmakers, developers, and designers some of the advice POV was given for reinventing the documentary for web. Before the POV Hackathon got underway, mentors and veteran engineers shared with the teams some advice born of experience. Here’s what…
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POV Hackathon Call for Participants is Now Open!
June 1, 2012POV has announced its first "Hackathon," an opportunity for filmmakers and web developers to come together and re-invent documentary for the web.POV (Point of View), the award-winning independent documentary series celebrating its 25th anniversary on PBS this year, is reaching out to documentary filmmakers who have projects at any stage of…
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The Moment for Independent Media: Bridging Cultural Understanding, Providing Fresh Perspectives
February 17, 2012Back in September of last year – around the 18th, to be exact – a student in a media class I teach blogged about something she was picking up on Twitter and in the blogosphere. Although she was pretty sure that “something” was happening, she wondered why she wasn’t reading or hearing more about it in media coverage. I recall tweeting back to her, “you can find…