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P.O.V.'s "Made in L.A." Wins 2008 News and Documentary Emmy Award

Sep 24 2008 - Film by Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar looks inside Los Angeles' garment industry through the eyes of immigrant workers wins Emmy in the category of Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story — Long Form. | »

P.O.V. Devotes Two Nights to Health Care in America

Sep 10 2008 - Special broadcast of Critical Condition on Sept. 30 looks at America's uninsured, followed by MacNeil/Lehrer Election Special; On Oct. 1, In the Family spotlights DNA testing through the eyes of a young woman carrying the "breast cancer gene" | »

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P.O.V. Receives Six News and Documentary Emmy Nominations

Jul 16 2008 - P.O.V., public television's premier showcase for independent point-of-view films, has received six nominations in the 29th Annual News and Documentary Emmy® Awards. | »

American Voters Go on a 'News Hunt' for the Best Coverage of the 2008 Election

Jul 7 2008 - Thousands of Americans are joining forces online to find the best news coverage of the 2008 presidential election, thanks to a partnership between PBS's social media site, PBS Engage, the award-winning documentary series P.O.V. and NewsTrust, a social news network promoting quality journalism. | »

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Why Vote? Share Your Story as P.O.V. Partners Online with NPR, WGBH, and Film Your Issue to Discover American Voters' Points of View

Apr 17 2008 - During this election season, P.O.V. wants to know what your point of view is. As a leading broadcaster of social-issue documentary films, P.O.V. is partnering with NPR, WGHB Lab, and Film Your Issue to encourage talented young visionaries to produce work that will address issues related to the elections. | »

P.O.V. Web Site Nominated for 2008 Webby Award

Apr 8 2008 - The P.O.V. Web site, www.pbs.org/pov, has been nominated for a 2008 Webby Award in the category of Movie and Film, it was announced today. Hailed as the "Oscars of the Internet," the Webby Film and Video Awards are the leading industry awards honoring original film and video premiering on the Internet. Winners will be announced on May 6, 2008 and honored at a ceremony in New York City on June 9. | »

P.O.V. Announces 2008 Schedule

Mar 18 2008 - Fresh on the heels of its 2007 Emmy Award for Excellence in Television Documentary Filmmaking, P.O.V. returns for its 21st season on PBS with a powerful and provocative slate of films that explore the human stakes in such American election-year issues as war and peace, health care, border issues and race relations. | »

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MacArthur Foundation Renews Support for American Documentary | P.O.V.

Feb 26 2008 - The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has renewed its support of American Documentary | P.O.V. with a grant of $1,500,000 over the next three years. The funds will support the P.O.V. ("Point of View") series and related online... | »

Sundance 2008 Film Festival Documentaries To Premiere Nationally on P.O.V. and P.O.V. Launches New Blog About Documentaries

Jan 16 2008 - Three films selected for the 2008 Sundance Film Festival will have their national broadcast premieres on the P.O.V., it was announced by Simon Kilmurry, Executive Director, American Documentary | P.O.V. Patti Smith: Dream of Life, NERAKHOON (The Betrayal) and Traces... | »

American Documentary Launches Third Season Of "True Lives" Series on Public Television in 2008

Jan 16 2008 - American Documentary, Inc., producer of PBS's acclaimed independent documentary series P.O.V., will present a third season of the True Lives limited series to public television stations starting in March 2008. The new season will showcase five documentary films that originally... | »

American Documentary | P.O.V. Grants Third Annual "Best Pitch" Award At DocFest07

Nov 1 2007 - How do you sell your documentary idea? Five emerging nonfiction filmmakers got the opportunity to pitch their story proposals to a panel of decision-makers at the popular The Art of the Documentary Pitch workshop in New York on Saturday, Oct. 27, part of DocFest07, the eighth annual documentary festival at The Paley Center for Media. American Documentary, Inc., producer of the award-winning P.O.V. series on PBS, sponsored the third annual award, presented during the competition portion of the session. The winner, Canadian filmmaker Angad Bhalla, received a $5,000 grant to be used toward the completion of the pitched film, The House That Herman Built. | »

News & Documentary Emmy Awards to Honor FRONTLINE, P.O.V. American Documentary, Sept. 24

Sep 12 2007 - Two of PBS's flagship documentary series, FRONTLINE and P.O.V./American Documentary, will be honored with a Special Award for Excellence in Television Documentary Filmmaking at the 28th Annual News & Documentary Emmy® Awards. FRONTLINE, which will mark its 25th anniversary in January 2008, will be honored for more than 24 years of outstanding long-form public affairs documentaries. P.O.V./American Documentary, which is in its 20th season on PBS this year, will be commended for its two decades as a showcase for outstanding independent documentary films. | »

P.O.V. Garners Four News and Documentary Emmy Nominations

Jul 18 2007 - P.O.V., public television's premier showcase for independent point-of-view films has received four nominations in the 28th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards. P.O.V. is currently presenting its 20th season on PBS. | »

AmDoc Presents the 20th Anniversary P.O.V. DVD Collection

Jun 17 2007 - Fifteen unforgettable documentaries from the last 20 years of critically acclaimed P.O.V. films are packaged together for the first time in this beautiful, limited edition set. | »

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P.O.V.'s 2008 Call for Entries is Open

May 3 2007 - Public television's premiere showcase for independent non-fiction film seeks submissions from all perspectives to showcase in its annual PBS series. P.O.V. welcomes all subjects, styles, lengths and work that expands the notion of what documentary can be. Unfinished films may be eligible for completion funds. The submission arrival deadline is June 29. | »

P.O.V. Nominated for 2007 Webby Award

Apr 19 2007 - The PBS documentary series P.O.V. — www.pbs.org/pov — has been nominated for a Webby Award, the leading international honor for Web sites, for Best Television Web Site. This marks the fourth Webby Award nomination for P.O.V. | »

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P.O.V. Staff Appearances at Upcoming Festivals and Events

Apr 18 2007 - P.O.V. staffers Cynthia López, Chris White and Yance Ford and will be at the Tribeca Film Festival and Hot Docs later this month. Cynthia López will be participating in a panel at the New York Women in Film and Television in New York City next week. | »

P.O.V. Announces 2007 Schedule

Mar 13 2007 - P.O.V. celebrates its 20th anniversary with a new slate of films on PBS beginning Tuesday, June 19, 2007, and a limited-edition DVD collection. Two hundred fifty films and countless awards later, P.O.V. has become the nation's longest-running television showcase for independent documentary storytelling. | »

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P.O.V. at the Celebration of Teaching and Learning

Mar 9 2007 - On March 24, 2007, P.O.V./AmDoc will present an "In the Classroom" session at the second annual Celebration of Teaching and Learning at Pier 94 in New York City. Dubbed by many as the "World's Fair for Educators," the Celebration is presented by Thirteen/WNET and WLIW21, the public television stations of the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut tri-state area. | »

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P.O.V. Film Screenings & Staff Appearances at Upcoming Events

Mar 2 2007 - Several P.O.V. films, including "The Camden 28" (pictured left), will be screening at film festivals around the country this month. P.O.V. staffers Simon Kilmurry, Cynthia López and Anne del Castillo will be participating in panels taking place at the South by Southwest Film Festival, the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, the Miami International Film Festival and the National Association of Independent Latino Producers conference. | »

American Documentary | P.O.V. Celebrates 20 Years

Feb 26 2007 - P.O.V. celebrates its 20th anniversary with a limited-edition DVD collection to be released on February 27, 2007, a new slate of PBS films beginning Tuesday, June 19, and a host of events throughout the year in partnership with leading arts organizations. | »

P.O.V.'s My Country, My Country Nominated for 2007 Oscar® in Best Documentary Feature Category

Feb 5 2007 - P.O.V.'s My Country, My Country by Laura Poitras has received an Academy Award® nomination for Best Documentary Feature. | »

P.O.V.'s The Chances of the World Changing at Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival

Nov 21 2006 - The Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival — the longest-running documentary film festival in the United States, now celebrating its 30th year — will screen P.O.V.'s The Chances of the World Changing by Eric Daniel Metzgar. | »

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P.O.V.'s Web Site Wins Five "W3" Awards for Creative Excellence

Nov 5 2006 - P.O.V.'s Web site, www.pbs.org/pov has won five awards in the first W3 competition, presented by the International Academy of the Visual Arts. | »

Emerging Filmmakers Given Powerful Voice on Public Television Through P.O.V.'s "Diverse Voices Project"

Oct 29 2006 - P.O.V., public television's acclaimed showcase of independent nonfiction films, has named four productions to receive support from the series' Diverse Voices Project (DVP), made possible through major funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). | »

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P.O.V. Presents the Fifth Annual Youth Views Institute

Oct 20 2006 - P.O.V., public television's pre-eminent showcase for independent social-issue documentary film, will host the fifth annual Youth Views Institute (YVI) Friday-Tuesday, November 3-7, 2006. | »

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American Documentary | P.O.V. Grants Second Annual "Best Pitch" Award

Oct 16 2006 - American Documentary, Inc., producer of the award-winning P.O.V. documentary series on PBS, sponsored its second emerging filmmaker award at the popular The Art of the Documentary Pitch workshop at the annual Museum of Television and Radio (MTR) DocFest in New York City. A $5,000 grant from American Documentary was awarded to Christopher Wong, the producer/director of Whatever It Takes, at the conclusion of the workshop on Saturday, Oct. 14. | »

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P.O.V. Garners Six News and Documentary Emmy Nominations

Jul 20 2006 - P.O.V., public televisionâs premier showcase for independent point-of-view films, has received six nominations in the 27th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards, a record for the series which is now in its 19th season on PBS. | »

P.O.V. Receives First Primetime Emmy Nomination For Jessica Yu's "In the Realms of the Unreal"

Jul 6 2006 - P.O.V., public television's premier showcase for independent point-of-view films, has garnered its first Primetime Emmy nomination, for Jessica Yu's In the Realms of the Unreal. | »

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