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Escuela

by Hannah Weyer

Premiere: August 27, 2002

Liliana Luis is a Mexican-American teenager rushing headlong into the turbulence of puberty as she tries to finish high school. The saga of the Luis family started in P.O.V.'s 2000 film, La Boda, continues in this story of one family's drive towards a better future.

Hybrid

by Monteith McCollum

Premiere: July 9, 2002

Welcome to the American Midwest, land of corn and visionary farmers like Milford Beeghly. Hybrid combines interviews, original animation and rare dry wit to create a meditative portrait of the energetic Beeghly.

Turn Here Sweet Corn

by Helen De Michiel

Premiere: July 9, 1991

The camera moves through a Minnesota corn field and finds a photograph of a suburban tract clothes-pinned to a cornstalk. Layered with visual and emotional paradoxes, Turn Here Sweet Corn searches for meaning beyond cliches and nostalgia, as a family farm is lost to speculative suburban real estate developers.