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1996 POV Season

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Utopia, Part 3

by Sam Green, Carrie Lozano

Premiere: August 18, 2009

The world's largest mall is outside of Guangzhou, China. Along with the glitz and glory of middle-class shopping, the mall’s developers seem to have imported something else — a cautionary tale of capitalist hubris. (13 minutes)

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Taken for a Ride

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.

Xich-lo (Cyclo)

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.

Remembering Wei Yi-fang, Remembering Myself

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.

The Women Outside

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.

The Transformation

by Susana Aiken, Carlos Aparicio

Premiere: July 9, 1996

No Loans Today

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.

a.k.a. Don Bonus

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.

A Litany For Survival

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.