About Global Voices
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The Independent Television Service (ITVS) presents Global Voices, the first original series to launch on PBS WORLD. The series brings North American audiences internationally themed documentaries made by independent filmmakers based in the U.S. and abroad.
From elections in Afghanistan to a beleaguered power plant in the former Soviet Union, from children toiling in a Bolivian silver mine to grieving Arab widows starting a pickle business, Global Voices presents intimate and resilient human stories revealing the complexities of our world and its inhabitants.
This season, Global Voices features the U.S. premieres of seven documentaries funded by series presenter ITVS International as part of an effort to bring diverse voices to American television. Starting off the season, THE DICTATOR HUNTER takes viewers on the trail of escaped Chadian dictator Hissene Habré. ARCHEOLOGY OF MEMORY follows Chilean musician Quique Cruz as he creates a multimedia installation to heal the wounds inflicted by Pinochet’s torturous regime. END OF THE RAINBOW explores the human dimensions of industrial gold mining in two remote locations: Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo and Guinea, West Africa. The Spanish documentary END OF WAITING TIME revisits the dictatorship of Francisco Franco while WITNESSES TO A SECRET WAR reveals the “secret war” in Laos through the perspectives of three generations of Hmong refugees. ESTILO HIP HOP explores the influence of hip hop in Latin America, and RULES OF THE GAME travels to Papua New Guinea for a gubernatorial election in a region plagued by political corruption and violence.
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The series also features encore broadcasts of ITVS programs from the acclaimed PBS series Independent Lens and P.O.V. Among these, duPont Award-winner SEOUL TRAIN provides a harrowing look into the plight of North Koreans risking their lives to flee their homeland. Another encore presentation, SEÑORITA EXTRAVIADA, winner of the Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Award, investigates the unsolved mystery of 270 women found raped and murdered outside Juarez, Mexico.
Global Voices is produced by ITVS with support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
PBS WORLD is a digital channel featuring documentary, public affairs and news programming from public television’s award-winning signature series and acclaimed independent filmmakers. PBS WORLD is produced and distributed by PBS, WGBH Boston and Thirteen/WNET New York, in association with American Public Television (APT) and the National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA).
