2007 POV Season
by Andy Blubaugh
Premiere: December 12, 2007
Scaredycat takes as a point of departure the beating of the filmmaker at the hands of a gang of young men who called themselves "The Portland Riders."
by Freida Lee Mock
Premiere: December 12, 2007
Tony Kushner, whose epochal Angels in America won a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award, has emerged as one of the country's leading playwrights — and one of its fiercest moral critics. In the film, Oscar-winning director Freida Lee Mock followed Kushner for three tumultuous years, from September 11, 2001, up to the 2004 presidential election, to delve into the passions that keep him reaching for the great American play.
by Michael Apted
Premiere: October 9, 2007
In one of documentary cinema's more remarkable enterprises, 49 Up is the seventh in a series of films that has profiled a group of English children every seven years, beginning in 1964.
by Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt, Nelson Walker III, Co-directed by Louis Abelman and Lynn True
Premiere: September 18, 2007
Lumo Sinai was raped by marauding soldiers in the Congo, which resulted in a fistula, a medical condition that renders her incontinent and threatens her ability to bear children.
by Anthony Giacchino
Premiere: September 11, 2007
How far would you go to stop a war? The Camden 28 recalls a 1971 raid on a draft board office by 'Catholic Left' activists protesting the Vietnam War and its effects on urban America.
by May Lin Au Yong
Premiere: September 4, 2007
Nine-year old Jyeshria wants a bullet proof vest — and she's dead serious. In Richmond, California, children don't walk to school; not if they want to live past the age of 18.
by May Lin Au Yong
Premiere: September 4, 2007
A reflection on a mother's resolute love as she confronts the fragile promise of life through the eyes of her son.
by Almudena Carracedo , Robert Bahar
Premiere: September 4, 2007
Follow the remarkable journey of three Latina immigrants working in L.A.'s garment factories and their long battle to bring a major clothing retailer to the negotiating table.
by Doug Hawes-Davis, Drury Gunn Carr
Premiere: August 28, 2007
In the small town of Libby, many hundreds are sick or have already died from exposure to asbestos, a notorious industrial toxin that many Americans consider long banned or under control.