Find out more about the people behind POV’s blog.
Guest blogger Adam Schartoff is a freelance film journalist living in Brooklyn, New York. He's the founder and programmer of the Brooklyn-based film series Filmwax.
Andrew's favorite documentaries are:
Dark Days - Marc Singer
The Gleaners & I - Agnès Varda
Silverlake Life: The View from Here - Peter Friedman & Tom Joslin
Manufacturing Consent - Mark Achbar & Peter Wintonick
Tongues Untied - Marlon Riggs
American Dream - Barbara Kopple
Family Portrait Sittings - Alfred Guzzetti
In Search of Our Fathers - Marco Williams
The Education of Shelby Knox - Marion Lipschutz & Rose Rosenblatt
Nobody's Business - Alan Berliner
Anne is POV's director of development and special projects; she has been active in the independent media arts and public television as a producer, programmer and fundraiser for over 12 years. She currently manages American Documentary's fundraising activities, content research and program licensing. Prior to joining the AmDoc staff in 2002, she was a production associate at American Masters in New York and then series coordinator for Frontline in Boston. In 1997, she moved to Austin, Texas, where she served as associate director of the Austin Film Society, and worked on numerous documentary and narrative film projects. She served as vice president of the board of Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers and has been a panelist for numerous arts and media organizations.
Aubrey started at POV as an intern in 2011, and worked briefly as Special Events Coordinator before moving into a full time position as Community Engagement and Education Assistant in 2012. Prior to joining POV, she spent three years as an environmental educator and deckhand aboard wooden sailing ships, including the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, which was co-founded by Pete Seeger. She has also worked as an Event Manager for UnionDocs, a documentary art space in Brooklyn, and served as a Production Assistant on a number of independent film and theater productions. Aubrey graduated from Whitman College with bachelor’s degree in Rhetoric and Film Studies.
Aubrey's favorite documentaries are:
1. Dont Look Back
2. Salesman
3. Sweetgrass
4. Food, Inc.
5. The Up Series
As POV's senior manager for communications, Cathy publicizes POV's programs and initiatives to media and consumers. She joined POV in 2003 after five years as manager of program press relations at PBS. Previously, she served as public relations director at Bravo and the Independent Film Channel; Group W Satellite Communications, where she managed PR for TNN: The Nashville Network; Westwood One Radio Networks; and D.L. Blackman, where she promoted classical music artists and IMAX movies. She was also the manager of press, advertising and promotion for NBC and ABC Radio.
Cathy's favorite documentaries are:
1. Inheritance - James Moll
2. Innocence Lost trilogy - Ofra Bikel
3. The Natural History of the Chicken - Mark Lewis
4. Street Fight - Marshall Curry
5. Suicide Killers - Pierre Rehov
Chris is POV's director of programming and production. He and his team work closely with the executive director in the areas of programming, production and PBS station relations. Previously, he worked as associate producer and production office manager on the documentary Blue Vinyl (HBO, 2002). Chris spent a number of years as vice president of sales and acquisitions at Angelika Films International, and at BNN-TV in New York as associate producer on projects for the History Channel and the Smithsonian Museum. He also produced the children's program An Introduction to the Italian Renaissance for the Museo Italo-Americano in San Francisco.
Chris's top five documentaries (this month) are:
1. First Person Plural, Deann Borshay Liem
2. Hybrid, Monteith McCollum
3. Tintin and I, Anders Østergaard
4. Fog of War, Errol Morris
5. Crumb, Terry Zwigoff
Cynthia's favorite documentaries are:
1. The Devil Came on Horseback by Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg
2. Every Mother's Son by Tammy Gold and Kelly Anderson
3. My Country, My Country by Laura Poitras
4. Iraq in Fragments by James Longley
5. Glass Jaw by Michael O'Reilly
David has worked on POV's website since its infancy, helping to develop and nurture it, as well as producing special features. David also oversees and administers POV's internal network, maintaining hardware and software for the POV staff. Prior to joining POV, David, served on the staff of CyberEd, an 18-wheeler Internet classroom that toured nationwide. Since 1997, David has worked independently as a computer consultant, including systems, networks, databases, and web design and construction. David's favorite documentaries are:
1. Eyes on the Prize - Henry Hampton (Executive Producer)
2. Crumb - Terry Zwigoff
3. The Thin Blue Line - Errol Morris
4. Roger & Me - Michael Moore
5. The Camden 28 - Anthony Giacchino
Edward J. Delaney is a journalist, author, filmmaker and editor of DocumentaryTech, an online project that explores documentary filmmaking techniques and technology.
Eliza is POV's vice president of community outreach and education, and she works with public television stations, educators and community-based organizations to present community screenings of POV films and to develop and distribute accompanying educational resource materials to teachers nationwide. Before joining POV in 2000, she taught English in Spain and Mexico. Eliza is a graduate of Barnard College, Columbia University.
Eliza's favorite documentaries are:
1. The Last Waltz - Martin Scorsese
2. In the Realms of the Unreal - Jessica Yu
3. The Thin Blue Line - Errol Morris
4. Don't Look Back - D A Pennebaker
5. Grey Gardens - Albert and David Maysles, Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer
Emma Dessau is an intern at POV's Digital department. She also works as a freelance journalist and film editor and is currently working on an independent documentary project, Folk to Folk (folk-to-folk.com). Prior to POV, she spent time as a content writer at Emerson College's Engagement Game Lab, helping to develop their city and community planning game platform Community Plan-It. She holds a Bachelors degree in journalism from Boston University.
Erin McIntyre is an intern at POV's Digital department. She is also a graduate student studying Media and Documentary at The New School. Prior to POV, she volunteered as a filmmaker for the United Nations Working Group on Girls, producing a short documentary on trafficking. In addition she works as a producer at The New School radio station WNSR where she collaborated on a radio documentary profiling the life of John Cage. She holds a bachelor's degree in Communication from Portland State University.
Blogger Heather McIntosh started Documentary Site almost a decade ago as a resource and outlet for documentary media. Follow her on Twitter @documentarysite.
Jamie is POV's community engagement and education coordinator. Prior to joining POV in 2010, Jamie worked at Northwestern University's satellite campus in Doha, Qatar, where she was part of the team tasked with setting up the school's film and journalism programs in the Middle East. She has worked in various capacities on many documentary film crews around the world, including productions in West Africa, and has worked closely with acclaimed filmmaker Margaret Brown. Jamie has also previously worked in the exhibition department at the Field Museum of Natural History and the education and cinema programming departments at the Block Museum of Art. She holds a bachelor's degree from Northwestern University in Radio/TV/Film and African Studies.
Filmmaker and multi-platform producer Liz Nord (Jericho’s Echo: Punk Rock In The Holy Land) is embracing transmedia with her new documentary project, Jerusalem Unfiltered. She has produced media projects around the world, including MTV's Emmy Award-winning 2008 presidential election coverage, and has presented on a wide range of creativity and media-related topics, notably as a TED speaker at TEDxDumbo. Follow her on twitter: @lizfilm.
Morlene Chin is an intern in the Digital/Interactive department at POV. She is studying Communication & Media Studies at Fordham University and is also senior producer of Cityscape, a public affairs program on NPR affiliate WFUV Radio 90.7 FM.
Rahul Chadha is a Brooklyn-based journalist and filmmaker interested in the convergence of coding and documentary arts. He is a past participant of several documentary programs, including the UnionDocs Collaborative and the Maysles Institute's Filmmakers Collaborative.
Sean started as an intern with POV in 2009, before coming on-board as a staff member in 2010. In his current position, he manages online video content, produces companion features for the POV film websites, and implements social media strategies. Prior to joining POV in 2010, he freelanced as a film editor and writer, in addition to working as an assistant for an independent music artist. He has written and directed several short, experimental films, and holds a bachelor's degree from Brown University in Literary Arts.
Shannon is a Web Producer in POV’s Digital Department, where she creates and maintains the front end of POV’s digital properties, including web-based applications, documentary companion site features, and special projects. She is currently a Collaborative Fellow at UnionDocs, a center for documentary art. Follow her on Twitter @Shannon_Carroll.
Her favorite documentaries include:
Last Train Home – Lixin Fan
5 Broken Cameras – Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi
Waltz with Bashir – Ari Folman
Iraq in Fragments – James Longley
Night and Fog – Alain Resnais
Tom's favorite documentaries are:
1. Koyanisqaatsi - Godfrey Reggio
2. Hoop Dreams - Steve James
3. The Up series - Michael Apted
4. Crumb - Terry Zwigoff
5. Capturing the Friedmans - Andrew Jarecki
Yance's favorite documentaries include:
1. Hands on a Hard Body
2. Tongues Untied
3. Harlan County, USA
4. Cul de Sac
5. When We Were Kings
6. The Thin Blue Line
7. Night and Fog
