On Thursday, August 16, 2012, ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center of Hawai‘i hosted a screening of The City Dark in its planetarium. The film fascinated its members, who were introduced to the science of the dark and explored our relationship with the stars.
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POV 2012
Next on POV: ‘Where Soldiers Come From’
Watch the Emmy-nominated documentary about childhood friends who journey from a snowy, small town in northern Michigan to the mountains of Afghanistan. Broadcast Date: Thursday, September 6, 2012, on POV.
Continue reading this entry »Community Partner Profile: Bronx Documentary Center
A late July screening of Up Heartbreak Hill kicked off a partnership between POV and The Bronx Documentary Center. Check out photos from the event! We’ll continue this September with Reportero and Bronx Princess.
Continue reading this entry »Writing The WGA Doc Screenplay Winner ‘Better This World’
Katie Galloway and Kelly Duane de la Vega, who won the WGA Best Documentary Screenplay award for Better This World earlier this year, explain what it means to “write” a doc.
Continue reading this entry »Next on POV: ‘Better This World’
Watch a documentary about two friends accused of intending to firebomb the Republican National Convention that goes to the heart of the war on terror in post-9/11 America. Broadcast Date: Thursday, August 30, 2012, on POV.
Continue reading this entry »New Barriers to Voting and the Legacy of the Foot Soldiers of the Civil Rights Movement
How much has changed since President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law?
Continue reading this entry »Next on POV: ‘Presumed Guilty’
Watch the Emmy Award-winning documentary about a man who was in the wrong place at the wrong time by first-time filmmakers who turned into “lawyers with cameras.” Presumed Guilty airs Thursday, August 23, 2012, on PBS.
Continue reading this entry »Give Up Tomorrow at The Brooklyn Museum 8/23
Join us Thursday at The Brooklyn Museum for the Brooklyn premiere of Give Up Tomorrow with filmmakers Michael Collins and Marty Syjuco and editor Eric Daniel Metzger in attendance for a Q&A after the screening.
Continue reading this entry »Upcoming POV Documentary Screenings
As we make our way through August, community partners across the country continue to host public screenings of POV premieres, encores and films from the archive. Here are some of their upcoming events.
Continue reading this entry »Next on POV: ‘Steam of Life’
POV’s 25th season continues with an encore of the moving Finnish film framed by a national obsession with the sauna. Steam of Life airs Thursday, August 16, 2012, on PBS.
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