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Watching and Reading: Week of November 19, 2007

November 23, 2007 5:28 PM, by Ruiyan Xu

Each week, we'll highlight links from the "Watching" and "Reading" sidebars on the right side of the page.

WATCHING

Please Vote For Me filmIndependent Lens' Please Vote For Me, about children competing to be class monitor in China, made the shortlist for the 2007 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Lumo Sinai from the documentary LumoLumo (P.O.V. 2007) filmmakers Nelson Walker III and Louis Abelman talked about the problem of rape as a weapon of war in the Congo on CNN's Inside Africa.

Cover image from the King CornKing Corn examines the mysteries of corn in its many guises, and IndieWire interviewed filmmakers Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis.

READING

AJ Schnack blogged about the small box-office returns of recent documentaries and the possible over-saturation of the doc market.

Increasingly, educators and nonprofit organizations across the United States are looking to P.O.V. as an integral resource for fostering community dialogue and participation. The Missouri State Teachers Association blog notes that P.O.V. films teach civic engagement.

P.O.V.'s own Irene Villasenor reports on her work with youth and documentary films in the Youth Media Reporter.

Back in 2002, the first episode of P.O.V.'s Borders featured a list of the best immigration games on the Web. GamePolitics.com reminded us how great those games still are.

Agnes Varnum, doc blogger extraordinaire, interviewed filmmakers to find out about the P.O.V. experience for Indiewire.com.

P.O.V. series producer Yance Ford talked about P.O.V.'s selection process with the Renew Media Blog. How do we go from over 800 submissions to the 15-18 films shown on P.O.V. every year?

Tags: What We're Watching, What We're Reading

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