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Brooklyn, N.Y. — June 3, 2024 — American Documentary’s multi award-winning show, ‘POV,’ America’s longest-running nonfiction series, enters its 37th season with a slate of 14 feature documentaries. These titles cover a wide spectrum of themes including socio-political culture, identity, economic inequality, surviving in a changing world, and the confluence between nature and science – largely told by an au courant generation of filmmakers offering raw, unique perspectives on social issues. This new wave of artists are bringing profound perspectives and a sense of urgency fueling the change of nonfiction films. Their style of storytelling marks a societal shift tied to the generational place they inhabit and is the spark bringing about new critical conversations.

This progression is the latest example of POV’s ongoing commitment to providing a public platform to showcase bold forms of documentary storytelling by directors with diverse voices and unforgettable protagonists with unique points of views. This season, over half of the films are by women, and a quarter are works by filmmakers of color.

In addition, American Documentary established a new partnership with DCTV and its Firehouse Cinema to bring a more holistic, robust experience to the world of documentaries and the communities/people who watch them. The allies will host branded screenings, panel discussions and networking events to acknowledge the artform and increase awareness of POV’s 37th season and upcoming 7th season POV Shorts slates (the latter to be announced later this year).

Erika Dilday, Executive Director, American Documentary and Executive Producer, POV and America ReFramed said: “POV stands for point of view, and each season we try to bring to our audiences documentaries that are both artful and artistic, but offer a unique viewpoint. In Season 37 we are really looking into contemporary issues and themes that we see as being at the front of what people are talking about right now. The geography and location of the stories may be different however, the world’s very much the same. What I find most inspiring is that stories by this season’s filmmakers not only reflect current cultural situations, but also address the question of what do we do next.”

As POV embarks on its 37th season, now more than ever before has the series stayed true to its “point of view” roots when it highlights unique, personal stories about dissent, coming of age, mental health, economic tensions, sexuality, interrelationship between science and the natural world, and identity.

The acquisition of the feature documentary, In the Rearview, by Polish director Maciek Hamela is the latest film to join the Season 37 slate. When Russia escalated its war against Ukraine in 2022, Hamela bought a van and volunteered to drive Ukrainian refugees to safety in Poland. Filmed almost entirely inside his vehicle, In the Rearview eschews depictions of carnage in order to capture the psychological costs and tragic consequences of the Russian invasion. It was listed among 15 films shortlisted for the 96th Academy Awards® in the Best Documentary Feature Film category.

Celebrated films previously announced include the season opener King Coal director Elaine McMillion Sheldon’s seminal film about the cultural roots of coal and its waning impact over a sector of American life, while also making space for a dream of the future to emerge. Who I am Not, sheds light on what it means to be intersex in a binary world, and is directed by Tünde Skovrán, produced by Andrei Zincă and executive produced by Oscars®/Emmy®/GLAAD Vanguard Award-winner Patricia Arquette. In Lin Alluna’s Twice Colonized, the filmmaker travels with Inuit lawyer Aaju Peter as she embarks on a personal journey to reclaim her language and identity after a lifetime of whitewashing and forced assimilation. The goal, to bring her colonizers in both Canada and Denmark to justice.

New additions to the lineup include the following:

As the world still mourns the loss of Alexei Navalny, Joe Piscatella’s Who’s Afraid of Nathan Law? presents an intimate portrait of one of the world's most recognized dissidents fighting for democracy against one of the world’s most dominant superpowers, China. The Body Politic, by director/producer Gabriel Francis Paz Goodenough, follows Baltimore’s idealistic Mayor Brandon Scott during an unprecedented election and throughout his first year in office as he faces obstacles implementing change for the community in the hope of saving his city from gun violence.

In the late-night summer self-portrait, Hummingbirds a co-sponsor with Latino Public Broadcasting, directors/protagonists Silvia Del Carmen Castaños and Estefanía “Beba” Contreras make magic of everyday moments coming of age on the Texas-Mexico border. In Jane M. Wagner’s Break the Game Narcissa Wright live streams every minute of her quest to be the world’s fastest Legend of Zelda™ player. But when her isolated digital existence begins to crack, Narcissa must decide her fate: will she embrace love and adventure in the real world, or will she be seduced again by the glow of the computer screen? Chloe Abrahams’ hypnotic The Taste of Mango follows the director as she probes raw questions her mother and grandmother have long brushed aside, tenderly untangling painful knots in her family’s unspoken past.

Edward Lovelace’s Name Me Lawand is a portrait of a young deaf refugee boy’s emotional journey as he learns British Sign Language and discovers how to express himself, who he is, and where he fits into the world. Is There Anybody Out There? follows director Ella Glendining’s global search for someone with a body that looks like hers, and explores what it takes to love yourself fiercely as a disabled person in a non-disabled world.

The push and pull between the natural world and modern civilization – with a focus on the changing nature of labor and what it means to survive – is the framework of Director Sarvnik Kaur’s Against the Tide; a tale of love, brotherhood and resentments against the backdrop of an adoring sea, which is turning adverse under the menacing effects of an all-pervading calamity called climate change. Fauna by director Pau Faus is a science fiction fable set in a forest near Barcelona, about an old shepherd and his flock who live alongside a high-tech laboratory for animal experimentation. Director Taku Aoyagi’s Tokyo Uber Blues, delivers an honest view of Tokyo from the perspective of a speeding Uber Eats® biker. The film is about gig labor, striking out on your own, and connecting in a burnt-out city.

Chris White, Executive Producer, American Documentary said: “At POV, we have a legacy of supporting notable filmmakers, but we also seek stories by emerging artists whose worldview and personal experiences differ from previous generations. Their approach to non-fiction storytelling by default is based on cultural shifts and their areas of focus are of the moment. Politics, the environment, personal and family evolutions, immigration and internationalism, and changes in systems of power are all topics deeply relatable to our audiences.

“Public media’s accessibility allows us to bring engaging storytelling to people from all walks of life. One overarching theme of Season 37's slate is how modernity brushes up against ingrained cultures and traditions.”

POV episodes premiere Monday nights and will be available for streaming concurrent with broadcast on all station-branded PBS platforms, including PBS.org and the PBS App, available on iOS, Android, Roku streaming devices, Apple TV, Android TV, Amazon Fire TV, Samsung Smart TV, Chromecast and VIZIO. For more information about PBS Passport, visit the PBS Passport FAQ website.

Additionally to standard closed captioning, POV partners with DiCapta for audio description services to provide real time audio or text interpretations for audiences with sensory disabilities. Films are accompanied by free educational resources, with many available for local screenings through POV’s Community Network digital lending library.

POV is one of the most highly-acclaimed documentary series in broadcast and streaming media. Most recently, While We Watched (POV Season 36) won the Peabody Award in the Documentary category marking the eleventh year in a row a POV film has been nominated for a Peabody and its 28th award win. In 2023, POV received eight News & Documentary Emmy® nominations and won the “Outstanding Business & Economic Documentary” for The Last Out (POV Season 36). Let the Little Light Shine (POV Season 35) received a Peabody nomination, and the films unseen and the shorts Between Earth & Sky and Freshwater (POV Shorts Season 6), made theshortlists for the 38th IDA Documentary Awards

In its landmark 35th anniversary season (2022), POV took home the IDA Documentary Award for “Best Curated Series;” garnered News & Documentary Emmy® nominations for the filmThe Neutral Ground (POV Season 34), the short A Broken House (POV Shorts Season 4), and the POV Spark project The Changing Same: American Pilgrimage, Episode 1. Mayor (POV Season 34) won the News & Documentary Emmy® Award for “Outstanding Politics and Government Documentary” and was awarded a Peabody. Águilas (POV Shorts Season 4) and A Broken House made the shortlist in the Documentary Short Subject category for the 94th Academy Awards®.

In 2021, the series received seven News & Documentary Emmy® nominations and won “Best Documentary” for Advocate (POV Season 33). This marked the second year in a row that a POV film took home that honor. POV earned the 2020 “Best Documentary” award for The Silence of Others (POV Season 32). POV won two Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Awards for Through the Night (POV Season 33) and Softie (POV Season 33). In addition to its Academy Award® nomination for Best Documentary Feature, The Mole Agent (POV Season 33) was also shortlisted for Best International Feature.

POV Season 37 Slate

King Coal
Season Premiere: June 24, 2024
Director/Producer/Writer/Co-Editor: Elaine McMillion Sheldon
Producers: Shane Boris, Diane Becker, Peggy Drexler
Description: King Coal meditates on the complex history and future of the coal industry, the communities it has shaped, and the myths it has created. Filmed in Central Appalachia, where 4th generation coal miner’s daughter, McMillion Sheldon, was raised and lives, the film documents the cultural roots of coal and its waning impact over a sector of American life, while also making space for a dream of the future to emerge.
Participants/Cast: Lanie Marsh, Gabrielle Wilson, Doy Leon Russell, Heather Hannah
Country: USA | Year: 2023
Awards:

• Official Selection - 2023 Sundance Film Festival Next
• Special Jury Prize Documentary Competition - 2023 San Francisco International Film Festival
• Cinematography Nominee, Documentary Feature Competition - 2023 IDA Awards

Hummingbirds
Premieres: July 1, 2024
Directors/Protagonists: Silvia Del Carmen Castaños, Estefanía “Beba” Contreras
Producers: Jillian Schlesinger, Miguel Drake-McLaughlin, Leslie Benavides, Ana Rodriguez-Falco, Diane Ng, Rivkah Beth Medow
Description: In Hummingbirds, directors Silvia Del Carmen Castaños and Estefanía “Beba” Contreras tell their own coming-of-age story, transforming their hometown on the Texas border into a wonderland of creative expression and activist hijinx. Filmed collaboratively over the final summer of their fleeting youth, their cinematic self-portrait celebrates the power of friendship and joy as tools of survival & resistance.
Co-sponsored with: Latino Public Broadcasting (LPB)
Country: USA | Year: 2023 | Languages: English, Spanish
Awards:

• Winner, Grand Prix for Best Feature Film - 2023 Berlinale Generation 14plus

Is There Anybody Out There?
Premieres: July 8, 2024
Director: Ella Glendining
Producer: Janine Marmot
Description: Is There Anybody Out There? is a personal documentary following Glendining’s search to track down other individuals with the same rare disability as her. Born without hip joints and short thigh bone, Glendining chronicles her journey of alienation and disabled pride from a political and powerfully intimate perspective. The film also explores the experience of being a disabled pregnant woman as well as the emotional process of becoming a mother, when she finds herself unexpectedly pregnant. More than anything, this story is about ableism – about living in a world where you’re seen as less than human – and what it takes to love yourself fiercely despite this.
Country: UK | Year: 2023 | Language: English
Awards:

• World Premiere, Grand Jury Prize Nominee - 2023 Sundance Film Festival
• Official Selection – SXSW 2023
• Winner Silver Horn, Best Film on Social Issues and 2023 FIPRESCI Prize International - Krakow Film Festival

Against the Tide
Premieres: July 29, 2024
Director: Sarvnik Kaur
Producers: Sarvnik Kaur, Koval Bhatia, Quentin Laurent
Description: A tale of love, brotherhood and resentments against the backdrop of an adoring sea, which is turning adverse under the menacing effects of an all-pervading calamity called climate change.
Countries: India, France | Year: 2023 | Languages: Koli, Marathi, Hindi (with English subtitles)
Awards:

• World Premiere, Winner, Special Jury Prize for Vérité Filmmaking - 2023 Sundance Film Festival
• Winner, Best Environmental Documentary - Verzio HRFF 2023
• Winner, Best Feature Documentary - Asia Pacific Screen Awards 2023

Fauna
Premieres: August 5, 2024
Director: Pau Faus
Producers: Sergi Cameron, Ventura Durall
Description: In a forest on the outskirts of Barcelona, an old shepherd and his flock live alongside a high-tech laboratory for animal experimentation. Two opposite worlds that are two sides of the same coin. While the shepherd, afflicted with a bone disease, witnesses his profession disappearing, scientists are busier than ever researching the covid vaccine. Told as a dreamy pastoral tale, Fauna is a science fiction fable about the relationship between humans, animals, and science in post-pandemic times.
Country: Spain | Year: 2023 | Languages: Catalan, Spanish
Awards:

• World Premiere – Visions du Réel 2023
• US Premiere – Camden International Film Festival 2023
• Official Selection – 2023 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival

Name Me Lawand
Premieres: September 9, 2024
Director: Edward Lovelace
Producers: Edward Lovelace, Fleur Nieddu, Sam Arnold, Beyan Taher, Neil Andrews & Marisa Clifford
Description: Lawand is a young Kurdish boy, deaf since birth. After a treacherous journey and a year in a Dunkirk refugee camp, the help of a deaf volunteer brings his family to Derby, where Lawand joins the Royal School for the Deaf. As he grows older, the film follows his dramatic progress learning British Sign Language, revealing a bright, charismatic and inquisitive boy who discovers friendship and a new way to express himself.
Country: UK | Year: 2022 | Languages: English, Kurdish, British Sign Language, subtitles
Awards:

• Winner Best Documentary, Grand Prize - FIFDH International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights 2024
• Winners Circle - DOCNYC 2023
• Winner Special Jury Prize for Best International Feature - 2023 Hot Docs

Who’s Afraid of Nathan Law?
Premieres: September 23, 2024
Director/Producer: Joe Piscatella
Producers: Matthew Torne, Mark Rinehart, Andrew Duncan
Description: Nathan Law. A leader of Hong Kong’s Umbrella Revolution at age 21. The youngest lawmaker ever elected in the history of Hong Kong at age 23. “Most Wanted” under the government’s National Security Law at age 26. Director Joe Piscatella and his production team use an intimate portrait of Hong Kong’s most famous dissident to tell the story of what happens to freedom when an authoritarian power goes unchecked.
Co-presented with: Preserving Democracy, a public media initiative from The WNET Group
Countries: US, Hong Kong, UK | Year: 2023 | Languages: English, Cantonese (with English subtitles)
Awards:

• Winner Top 10 Audience Favorite - 2023 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival

In the Rearview
Premieres: October 7, 2024
Director: Maciek Hamela
Producer: Piotr Grawender
Description: In the initial days of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Polish aid worker-turned-filmmaker Maciek Hamela purchased a minivan and began evacuating civilians — mostly women and children, now all refugees — to Poland. Filmed almost entirely inside his vehicle, In the Rearview eschews depictions of carnage in order to capture the psychological costs and tragic consequences of the Russian invasion. Squashed in Hamela’s backseat, a family sheds tears over abandoning their cow. A young man speaks stoically about being tortured by Russian soldiers. Five-year-old Sanya has stopped speaking. As Hamela’s taxi navigates checkpoints, minefields, and Russian attacks, In the Rearview displays faces — young and old, devastated and resilient — offering a moving and sublime reflection of humanity in the midst of war.
Countries: Poland, France, Ukraine | Year: 2023 | Languages: English, Ukrainian, Polish, Russian, French
Awards:

• World Premiere – 76th Cannes Film Festival
• Winner, IDA Pare Lorentz Award - 2023 International Documentary Association Awards
• North American Premiere - 2023 Toronto International Film Festival

Twice Colonized
Premieres: October 14, 2024
Director: Lin Alluna
Producers: Emile Hertling Péronard, Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, Stacey Aglok MacDonald, Bob Moore
Description: Renowned Inuit lawyer Aaju Peter has led a lifelong fight for the rights of her people. A member of a historically marginalized and oppressed community, Aaju’s heritage puts her in the unique position of someone who has been “twice colonized” – first by European settlers who arrived in the Arctic, and then by modern-day Canadian policies and institutions. But while launching an effort to establish an Indigenous forum at the EU, Aaju finds herself facing a difficult and deeply personal journey to mend her own wounds after the unexpected passing of her youngest son.
Countries: Denmark, Canada, Greenland | Year: 2023 | Languages: English, Danish, Kalaallisut, Inuktitut
Awards:

• World Premiere, Grand Jury Prize World Cinema - Documentary Nominee – 2023 Sundance Film Festival
• North American Premiere – 2023 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival

Tokyo Uber Blues
Premieres: October 21, 2024
Director: Taku Aoyagi
Producer: Kazuo Osawa
Description: The pandemic forces a film-school graduate with a $40,000 student debt (director Taku) out of a job. He decides to try his luck in Tokyo, joining the fleet of Uber Eats® delivery bikers who cater to the big city in pseudo-lockdown. With just a bicycle and a smartphone, he is now able to earn whenever he likes. He’s helping people out, and it’s fun -- what a game! But when he realizes the system has the upper hand, he starts to think twice about the endless deliveries of tapioca milkshakes to closed doors in high-rise condos.
Country: Japan | Year: 2023 | Language: Japanese
Awards:

• Official Selection - 2023 Sheffield Doc Fest
• Official Selection - 2023 SXSW Sydney
• Official Selection - DocPoint Tallinn 2023

The Body Politic
Premieres: November 25, 2024
Director: Gabriel Francis Paz Goodenough
Producers: Gabriel Francis Paz Goodenough, Dawne Langford, John Benam
Description: Like many areas in the United States, the City of Baltimore has been plagued by gun violence. Amid the George Floyd uprising, Brandon Scott, a young reform-minded leader, is elected mayor. His hope is to lower violence in the city with a new public health-focused approach rather than relying only on policing as he feels others have done. With unfettered access, cameras follow him and his team of young leaders throughout their first year in city hall, unveiling an ambitious plan to lower the city's murder rate. When opposition mounts, commitment to his principles puts his political future in jeopardy. Will his holistic approach lead to healing and serve as a blueprint for the rest of the nation?
Co-produced with: ITVS
Co-presented with: Black Public Media (BPM)
Country: USA | Year: 2023 | Languages: English
Awards:

• World Premiere and Voted Top 10 Audience Favorite - 2023 Sheffield DocFest
• North American Premiere and Spotlight Film - 2023 DC/DOX Film Festival
• Winner, Audience Choice Award - 2023 Heartland International Film Festival

Who I am Not
Premieres: December 30, 2024
Director: Tünde Skovrán
Producer: Andrei Zincă
Description: What makes a male, and what makes a female? Where do we draw the line, and does it really matter? In Who I am Not, actress-turned-director Tünde Skovrán explores the lives of two South Africans from contrasting backgrounds who have in common one particular, naturally occurring biological variation. Namely, they are intersex - born male and female within one single body, and experiencing various forms of trauma and self-doubt. Sharon-Rose Khumalo, a South African beauty queen, plunges into an identity crisis after finding out she is intersex. She needs the guidance of somebody just like her. The only person who will help is Dimakatso Sebidi, a male-presenting intersex activist who turns out to be her complete opposite. The documentary’s two parallel yet divergent stories offer an intimate and deeply emotional look at the struggle of living in a male-female world, when you are born in-between.
Participants/Cast: Sharon-Rose Lehlohonolo Khumalo (she/her), Dimakatso Sebidi (they/them), Khanyisile Ngobeni (she/her)
Countries: Romania, Canada | Year: 2023 | Languages: English, Sepedi, Xhosa, Setswana, & IsiZulu
Awards:

• World Premiere, Winner, International Competition Silver Alexander Award – 2023 Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
• Winner Audience Choice Award for Best Doc – Frameline 2023
• Official Selection – SXSW 2023

Break the Game
Premiere: TBA 2025
Director/Producer: Jane M. Wagner
Description: After coming out as a trans woman, world-record-holding gamer, Narcissa Wright loses her massive fanbase. To win them back, she attempts to set a new record in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, live streaming every minute of her quest. Break the Game is a moving exploration of gamer culture, the realities of online harassment, and the mental health implications of living a digital life.
Country: USA | Year: 2024 | Language: English
Awards:

• World Premiere, Winner Special Jury Mention for Best New Documentary Director - 2023 Tribeca Film Festival

The Taste of Mango
Premiere: TBA 2025
Director: Chloe Abrahams
Producers: Chloe Abrahams, Elliott Whitton
Description: In this hypnotically cinematic love letter flowing through time and generations, director Chloe Abrahams probes raw questions her mother and grandmother have long brushed aside, tenderly untangling painful knots in her family’s unspoken past.
Co-presented with: CAAM (Center for Asian American Media)
Countries: UK, USA | Year: 2023 | Language: English with partial English subtitles
Awards:

• World Premiere – 2023 True/False Film Festival
• Winner Best Debut Director – Documentary at the British Independent Film Awards 2023
• Winner Audience Award for Best Documentary – London Film Festival 2023

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About POV

Produced by American Documentary, POV is the longest-running independent documentary showcase on American television. Since 1988, POV has presented films on PBS that capture the full spectrum of the human experience, with a long commitment to centering women and people of color in front of, and behind, the camera. The series is known for introducing generations of viewers to groundbreaking works like Tongues Untied (1989), Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1992), Rabbit in the Room (1999), Of Civil Wrongs & Rights: The Fred Korematsu Story (2001), Made in L.A. (2007), American Promise (2013), Not Going Quietly (2021), While We Watched (2022), A House Made of Splinters (2022) and the mini-series And She Could be Next (2020). Throughout its history POV has featured the work of award-winning, innovative filmmakers including Jonathan Demme, Laura Poitras, Nanfu Wang, Frederick Wiseman, Emiko Omori, Janus Metz Pedersen and Ava DuVernay. In 2018, POV Shorts launched as one of the first PBS series dedicated to bold and timely short-form documentaries. In 2024, Indiewire named seven POV films in its roundup of “The 50 Best Documentaries of the 21st Century”: Faya Dayi (2021), The Mole Agent (2020), Minding The Gap (2018), Cameraperson (2016), The Look of Silence (2015), The Act of Killing (2013) and After Tiller (2013). All POV programs are available for streaming concurrent with broadcast on all station-branded PBS platforms, including PBS.org and the PBS App, available on iOS, Android, Roku streaming devices, Apple TV, Android TV, Amazon Fire TV, Samsung Smart TV, Chromecast and VIZIO. For more information about PBS Passport, visit the PBS Passport FAQ website.

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