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POV believes in presenting the work of filmmakers-both emerging and established — that reflect experiences not commonly represented on television, offer a springboard for discussion and provide a deeper understanding of the world we live in.

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Geoffrey Smith Geoffrey Smith talks about The English Surgeon.

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Recent Filmmaker Interviews

A Thousand Words | Melba Williams

Filmmaker Melba Williams talks about communicating with her father, a Vietnam War veteran who has suffered a debilitating stroke, during the making of A Thousand Words

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The Way We Get By | Aron Gaudet

Gita Pullapilly and Aron Gaudet talk about how they convinced his mother to be the subject of their film, how meeting Bill and Jerry helped them find deeper stories that go beyond troop greeting, and how audiences have responded to The Way We Get By and its subjects.

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Jennifer | Stewart Copeland

Filmmaker Stewart Copeland explores his relationship with his late mother and the distance between memory and history in his short film, Jennifer. In this interview, Copeland talks about how the memory of his mother inspired him to make the film.

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Recent Production Journals

The Way We Get By

Aron Gaudet and Gita Pillapully talk about their backgrounds in television news, and how the film was both a professional and personal journey for them as a couple.

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The English Surgeon

Geoffrey Smith talks about working with Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, who created the soundtrack for The English Surgeon and what it was like filming the scene of Marian's brain surgery.

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Ella Es el Matador (She Is the Matador)

POV: Can you describe the film stylistically? What influenced your aesthetic decisions on the film? Celeste Carrasco and Gemma Cubero Celeste Carrasco: Making this film has been a real learning process. We had so many restrictions, due partly to lack...

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The POV 2010 Call For Entries is now closed.

The arrival deadline for submissions was Tuesday, June 30, 2009.

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POV Podcasts

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