Tag: POV
MoMA to spotlight POV during its yearly ‘Documentary Fortnight’
As part of its annual “Documentary Fortnight,” the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City is celebrating 25 years of ...A growing push for data-driven documentary filmmaking
Wendy Levy, the director of arts consultancy group New Arts AXIS, called for documentary filmmakers to embrace big data tools as a ...POV captures five of PBS’s nine news and documentary Emmys
PBS topped all the other broadcast networks, as runners-up ABC and CBS each won seven. POV’s “Last Train Home,” a film about Chinese ...New class of MacArthur fellows includes two POV filmmakers
Two acclaimed filmmakers whose work has been featured on the documentary showcase POV on PBS were among the 2012 “Genius Grant” recipients, announced ...Treaty puts indie films in Monday slot
Independent Lens and POV, the PBS series at the center of a dispute about public TV’s commitment to independent film, are moving to Monday nights, ...StoryCorps’ multiplatform production on the anniversary of 9/11 earned a prize for public radio and ...
The Peabody-winning segment aired on NPR’s Morning Edition and featured interviews that had been adapted as animated shorts for PBS’s POV. The award, one ...PBS weighs new night for Indie Lens, POV, after uproar
PBS has agreed to consider “alternative scheduling options” for the independent production showcases Independent Lens and POV, which lost carriage and audience after the network moved ...Ottinger and Kobin: two broadcast managers who stood up for diversity of viewpoints
Two controversies put public TV general managers to the test: How far would they extend their necks for the principle that public ...Tongues re-tied? Filmmaker Marlon Riggs speaks for a group mainstream America would prefer to ‘erase’
"'Tongues Untied' was motivated by a singular imperative: to shatter America's brutalizing silence around matters of sexual and racial difference. Yet despite ...Many stations nix or delay film about black gay men
At least 17 major stations have opted not to air “Tongues Untied.”
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