Freelance journalist Adam Schartoff talks with filmmaker and editor Alison Ellwood, whose new documentary as co-director, Magic Trip, screens at BAMcinemaFEST 2011 in New York City.
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BAMcinemaFEST 2011: Three More Nonfiction Recommendations
Freelance journalist Adam Schartoff gives nonfiction fans in New York City three good reasons to get to Brooklyn’s Fort Greene over the next few days for BAMcinemaFEST 2011: Anne Buford’s Elevate, Alison Ellwood and Alex Gibney’s Magic Trip and Charlie Ahearn’s Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer.
Continue reading this entry »BAMcinemaFEST 2011: Heather Courtney on ‘Where Soldiers Come From’
In this dispatch from BAMcinemaFEST 2011, Heather Courtney tells freelance journalist Adam Schartoff how a filmmaking project about her Michigan hometown took a detour to Afghanistan.
Continue reading this entry »BAMcinemaFEST 2011: Oscar Nominee Marshall Curry on ‘If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front’
Freelance journalist Adam Schartoff checks in from BAMcinemaFEST 2011. In this dispatch, Schartoff talks with POV alum Marshall Curry about his new documentary, which leads the festival’s nonfiction lineup and airs later this summer on POV.
Continue reading this entry »BAMcinemaFEST Kicks Off Third Season Bringing Blue Chip Docs to Brooklyn
Freelance journalist and film programmer Adam Schartoff previews the documentary slate at Brooklyn’s BAMcinemaFEST, June 16-26, 2011.
Continue reading this entry »40 Years After: Measuring the Impact of the Pentagon Papers
Yesterday’s 40th anniversary of the Pentagon Papers got a lot of attention in the media. Here’s a roundup of coverage from around the Web. And don’t forget, you can watch The Most Dangerous Man: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers on the POV website until midnight tonight!
Continue reading this entry »‘Battle For Brooklyn’ Filmmakers Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley on How Communities Can Fight Developers
POV intern Alva French talks with “Battle For Brooklyn” co-directors Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley at last night’s Rooftop Films Summer Series screening at Brooklyn’s Ft. Greene Park.
Continue reading this entry »Dispatch from South Korea: Discovering Docs at the INPUT 2011 Public Media Conference
Theresa Riley reports on her experience attending this year’s public media INPUT conference, held from May 9-12, 2011 in Seoul, South Korea.
Continue reading this entry »Cinema Eye Honors Announces 2011 Nominees
The 2011 Cinema Eye Honors nominees were just announced last week, and we’re thrilled to find that a few POV films are on the list. Lixin Fan‘s Last Train Home, which will be broacast on POV in 2011, has been nominated for seven awards, including Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking, Direction, Production, Cinematography, Editing,
Continue reading this entry »DOC NYC: Now Through Tuesday, November 9
Ladies and gents, there’s a new festival in town. Last night the inaugural edition of DOC NYC kicked off in a big way, featuring Werner Herzog and his breathtaking 3-D documentary Cave of Forgotten Dreams. Opening with such a mammoth (no prehistory-pun intended) piece of work is quite a statement about the goals and scope
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Señorita Extraviada
May 22, 2013
7:00 pm
Irvine, California
Phi Lambda Rho is pleased to host their first annual Semana De La Mujer, a week-long event on the University of California, Irvine campus celebrating the complex and unique identity of Latinas. Through a series of events, including a screening of Señorita Extraviada, they hope to inform students about the issues affecting Latina students on campus, as well as issues affecting the Latina/o community as a whole. For more information, call (323) 246-8437.
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