Since 1994, POV Spark has driven new storytelling initiatives and interactive production for POV. The department has continually experimented with web-based documentaries, producing PBS’ first program website and the first Snapchat-native documentary. It has won major awards for its work,…
“Whose Streets?” looks beyond the media narrative to offer what Davis has called “black people seeing black people” – validation, encouragement and love in the face of a bitter legacy of injustice. “‘Whose Streets?’ illustrates a generational changing of the…
Where: Public Media Commons, 3653 Olive Street, St. Louis, MO 63108 Black Lives Matter is regarded as a modern civil rights movement. Do you see parallels between the 1960s civil rights movement and the current Black Lives Matter movement? What…
To date, POV films have won 37 Emmy® Awards, 21 George Foster Peabody Awards, 12 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards, three Academy Awards®, the first-ever George Polk Documentary Film Award and the Prix Italia. The POV series has been honored…
In Montana, many of the voices against dark money are Republican. Debra Bonogofsky, a small business owner running for the Montana State House of Representatives on a campaign that promotes “fiscal responsibility” and small government, considers resisting dark money groups…
American Documentary, Inc. (www.amdoc.org) Since 1994, POV Spark has driven new storytelling initiatives and interactive production for POV. The department has continually experimented with web-based documentaries, producing PBS’ first program website and the first Snapchat-native documentary. It has won major…
“The film celebrates the bravery of Maria and her no-less impressive family, and by extension all who fight for women’s rights in the region.” –Patrick Mullen, Point of View Magazine “Heidenrich’s rousing doc shows that there’s much more at stake…
– Anna Maples, VOX Magazine –Argun Ulgun, Popmatters “Vassault has rendered a fine documentary which humanizes the American juror as more than just another digit.” “He [Vassault] does a superb job of gradually revealing more detail about Lindy Lou’s personality…
–John DeFore, The Hollywood Reporter –Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times “Viktor Jakovleski’s sometimes rapturous Brimstone & Glory takes us to Tultepec for two annual rituals that celebrate this livelihood, reveling in their spectacle and observing the days leading up to…
We encourage children to tell trusted adults about abuse, but Princess Shaw reports that when she told her mother, her mother defended the abuser and said, “I don’t think he was trying to do you like that.” Why might a parent…
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Director: Jian Fan Pursuing independence and love, without ever losing hope. POV films have won 37 Emmy® Awards, 21 George Foster Peabody Awards, 12 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards, three Academy Awards®, the first-ever George Polk Documentary Film Award…