1996 POV Season
by Jim Klein, Martha Olson
Premiere: August 6, 1996
A startling expose of General Motors' role in dismantling street car transportation in the 1930's and in catapulting the automobile to the center of our national culture.
by M. Trinh Nguyen
Premiere: July 30, 1996
A meditative journey of a Vietnamese woman, now a U.S. citizen, who returns to her homeland and wonders where she really belongs.
by Yvonne Welbon
Premiere: July 30, 1996
Yvonne Welbon presents a witty and original coming-to-terms with race, culture and self. A six year stay in Taiwan transforms her understanding of what it means to be an African American and illuminates her connection to her Honduran-born grandmother.
by J.T.Orinne Takagi, Hye Jung Park
Premiere: July 16, 1996
A provocative, emotional journey into the lives of women who work in the brothels, bars and nightclubs around U.S. military bases in South Korea.
by Lisanne Skyler
Premiere: July 2, 1996
The ABC Loan Co. of South Central Los Angeles, a successful black-owned pawnshop, is a unique entree to inspiring stories of economic and emotional survival.
by Spencer Nakasako, Sokly Don Bonus Ny
Premiere: June 25, 1996
A raw and revealing video diary by a Cambodian-born teenager who now lives in San Francisco's inner city.
by Ada Gay Griffin, Michelle Parkerson
Premiere: June 18, 1996
Poet, lover, mother, warrior — Audre Lorde wrote passionately of love and anger, civil rights and sexuality, family politics and the glories of nature.
by Steven Bognar
Premiere: June 11, 1996
Bela Bognar is no ordinary American dad. Now a suburbanite, he once fought against Soviet domination during the Hungarian revolution. Ever since, his life has been a longing for the glories of the past. Steven Bognar crafts a moving portrait of his father's 40-year quest for identity and home.