Film Update In 2020, POV asked the Advocate filmmakers what's happened since the cameras stopped rolling. What further developments have happened in the case of the young Palestinian boy, Ahmad, who was on trial for a stabbing attack in East Jerusalem? Ahmad, now 18 years old, has served about half his sentence (which Lea succeeded … Continue reading "POV: ‘Advocate’ | Film Update"

Overview POV Shorts Returns For Its Third Season on PBS Featuring Critically-Acclaimed Festival and Oscar Nominated Shorts That Highlight Our Interconnectedness Select titles Include: In the Absence, The Love Bugs and All Cats are Grey in the Dark The Season is Available on PBS and to Stream Beginning October 26, 2020 New York, N.Y. — … Continue reading "POV Shorts Returns For Its Third Season on PBS"

Overview A Grassroots Activist Turned Political Star Takes on the Dirty Business of Politics to Bring About Change to Unite His Native Kenya in ‘Softie,’ Premiering Monday, October 12, 2020 on PBS and at POV.org Boniface Mwangi, nicknamed ‘Softie” by his close friends and family, has long fought injustices in his country as a political … Continue reading "POV: ‘Softie’ | Press Kit"

Overview POV's The Silence of Others Wins ‘Best Documentary’ at 2020 News & Documentary Emmys® POV Leads As Most Awarded Show, With Total of Four Wins New York, N.Y. — September 23, 2020 — POV, American television’s longest-running independent documentary series, has won four awards for the 2020 News & Documentary Emmy® Awards, announced last … Continue reading "POV’s The Silence of Others Wins ‘Best Documentary’ at 2020 News & Documentary Emmys®"

Overview An artist creates an autobiographical stage performance to battle his father's dementia in Our Time Machine, Airing September 28, 2020 on PBS Series POV A father and son confront their mortality through their art before time runs out "Beautifully realized… visually striking…" – San Francisco Chronicle "Sun and Chiang convey the cyclical nature of … Continue reading "POV: ‘Our Time Machine’ | Press Kit"

Overview POV Presents An Unvarnished Look at a U.S. Immigration Detention Centers From the Inside, in Alex Rivera and Cristina Ibarra’s Docu-thriller Hybrid THE INFILTRATORS Debuting Monday, October 5, 2020 on PBS New York, NY — September 17, 2020 — POV’s 33rd season is proud to present the national broadcast debut of the docu-thriller hybrid … Continue reading "POV: ‘The Infiltrators’ | Press Kit"

Film Update In 2020, POV asked the About Love filmmakers what's happened since the cameras stopped rolling. How is your family? Have they seen the film–what did they think? Is your mother still writing? It’s the time of Monsoons. Strangely my family is all over India at the moment. My brother, his wife Gurbani and … Continue reading "POV: ‘About Love’ | Film Update"

Overview Institutional Racism Faced By a Young Aboriginal Boy and Biases in Australia’s Juvenile Justice Reform Are Confronted in "In My Blood it Runs," Premiering Monday, September 21 on PBS Television Series POV At time of filming 100% of Children in Juvenile Detention in Australian State Were Aboriginal New York, NY, September 3, 2020 – … Continue reading "POV: ‘In My Blood It Runs’ | Press Kit"

Overview Award-winning documentary Love Child, on Young Couple Forced to Flee Their Iranian Homeland for Love and Family Inspite of an Uncertain Future, Has its National Television Debut on Monday, September 14 on PBS Television Series POV NEW YORK, NY – Thursday, September 3, 2020 – The award-winning documentary film Love Child is a political … Continue reading "POV: ‘Love Child’ | Press Kit"

Overview Award-Winning Photographer Wendy Ewald Along With Her Former Students, Revisit Photographs of Rural Life in 1970s Appalachia in ‘Portraits and Dreams,’ Premiering Monday, September 7, 2020 The Camera Captures Family Histories and Tells Stories of Growing Up in the Kentucky Mountains Celebrated photographer Wendy Ewald has spent her life teaching students how to record … Continue reading "POV: ‘Portraits and Dreams’ | Press Kit"