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 26-week series brings North American audiences internationally themed documentaries made by U.S.-based and international filmmakers. Global Voices features the U.S. premieres of five documentaries funded by ITVS International as well as encore broadcasts of other acclaimed ITVS programs. Encore presentations include the Academy Award nominee DAUGHTER FROM DANANG, the Emmy Award winner A LION’S TRAIL and the Independent Spirit Award Winner and Emmy nominee LOST BOYS OF SUDAN.
From sumo wrestling to the fall of the Berlin wall, from Chinese child acrobats to students of a small schoolhouse in rural Colombia to exploring the musical worlds of South Africa, America and Cambodia, Global Voices presents intimate and resilient human stories revealing the complexities of our world and its inhabitants.
The series debuts with the U.S. broadcast premiere of CIRCUS SCHOOL, a story about competition and survival that reveals the challenges faced by a group of Chinese children on their journey to becoming acrobats. Other premieres include BRIDGE OVER THE WADI, which follows 50 Arab and 50 Jewish children as they attend a bi-national and bilingual grade school in Wadi Ara village in Israel for the first time, revealing the challenges of building a unified existence against the backdrop of a complicated reality.
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Told through the eyes of the children who live there, ABC COLOMBIA is an intimate portrait of a small rural Colombian community controlled by paramilitary forces. OVERBOOKED profiles two men from two different cultures as they try to manage a diverse group of people traveling from Torino, Italy, to Morocco. FOR GOD, TSAR AND FATHERLAND, winner of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival World Cinema Directing Award, explores what happens when residents of Durakovo (“village of fools”), a small village southwest of Moscow, abandon all their former rights and agree to obey Russian patriot, good Christian, successful businessman and village owner Mikhail Morozov.
PBS WORLD is a new channel featuring documentary, public affairs and news programming from public television’s award-winning signature series and acclaimed independent filmmakers. 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), PBS WORLD launched on 55 stations across the country, representing 24 licensees and reaching more than 27 percent of U.S. households. In most markets, PBS WORLD programming will be available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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