{"id":37064,"date":"2022-05-11T19:36:43","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T23:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/?p=37064"},"modified":"2022-05-11T19:36:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T23:36:43","slug":"award-winning-pbs-series-pov-announces-milestone-35th-season-lineup-ahead-of-july-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/11\/award-winning-pbs-series-pov-announces-milestone-35th-season-lineup-ahead-of-july-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Award-Winning PBS Series &#8220;POV&#8221; Announces Milestone 35th Season Lineup Ahead of July Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30750\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/pbs-logo.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/pbs-logo.webp 500w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/pbs-logo-300x129.webp 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>POV<\/em><\/strong>, America&#8217;s longest-running non-fiction series on PBS celebrates its milestone 35th year with a slate of acclaimed thought-provoking films. The award-winning anthology series will premiere fourteen features with themes that include environmental justice, systemic inequity, global perspectives on motherhood, and caregiving during multiple crises.<\/p>\n<p>POV builds upon its decades-long commitment to representation and inclusion, with over half of this season&#8217;s films directed by women, and two thirds by filmmakers of color. In addition, half come from filmmakers of Asian descent, and several titles are by and about people with disabilities. A major platform for global nonfiction in the U.S, the series will feature stories from China, Cuba, Ethiopia, Greenland, Myanmar, Norway, the Philippines, Zimbabwe, and feature contemporary Muslim perspectives from both outside and within the U.S.<\/p><div id=\"morty-3107986489\" class=\"morty-content\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;PBS is proud that after 35 years, POV continues to deliver artistically unique, essential, and dynamic films by a diversity of creators. As our passionate, inclusive, and intellectually curious audience continues to grow, POV remains a powerful linchpin in the mission of public television&#8221; said Sylvia Bugg, PBS&#8217;s Chief Programming Executive and General Manager, General Audience Programming.<\/p>\n<p>The 35th season opens July 11 with Wuhan Wuhan, by Yung Chang, a stirring observational documentary on the first wave of the COVID-19 lockdown. Episodes premiere Monday nights and will be available for streaming concurrent with broadcast on all station-branded PBS platforms, including\u00a0PBS.org\u00a0and the\u00a0PBS Video 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\u00a0PBS Passport FAQ\u00a0website.<\/p>\n<p>In addition 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&#8217;s Community Network digital lending library.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are so excited to launch our 35th season in this anniversary year. As we reach back with titles that highlight our collective enormous histories, showcase a diversity of forward-looking veteran and new filmmakers who challenge conventional narratives, and as we as an organization evolve our own understanding of what accessibility means, we are poised for an unforgettably audacious new season&#8221; said Erika Dilday, executive director of American Documentary and executive producer of POV.<\/p><div id=\"morty-2237428157\" class=\"morty-content_2\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Preceding Wuhan Wuhan as well is a special encore presentation of Academy Award\u00ae nominated documentary, Who Killed Vincent Chin?, by filmmakers Christine Choy and Renee Tajima-Pe\u00f1a. As previously announced, the broadcast will coincide with the 40th anniversary of Chin&#8217;s murder and be part of four-day Rememberance &amp; Rededication activities in Detroit with CAAM and Detroit Public Television (DPTV).<\/p>\n<p>As climate change transforms how we live, three films focus on environmental issues through the lens of international and indigenous communities. Ann Kaneko&#8217;s Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust documents the intergenerational struggle to protect California&#8217;s Payahuunad\u00fc \/ Owens Valley and the unexpected alliance between Japanese Americans, Native Americans and environmental activists. In Winter&#8217;s Yearning, directors Sidse Torstholm Larsen and Sturla Pilskog examine the precarious relationship between the people of Maniitsoq, Greenland and U.S. aluminum giant Alcoa Corporation. Delikado, the first feature film from Karl Malakunas, follows the plight of land defenders struggling to save an island paradise in the Philippines from being plundered by powerful politicians and business figures.<\/p>\n<p>The season also examines systemic inequity in U.S. institutions and the true costs of the American Dream for Black and Brown communities. Dan Chen&#8217;s directorial debut Accepted follows four high school students at T.M. Landry College Prep, a controversial K-12 day school in rural Louisiana, known for sending its graduates to elite universities. The Last Out, by Academy Award nominee Sami Khan and Michael Gassert, follows three Cuban baseball players who risk exile to chase their dream of playing in the U.S. major leagues. Kevin Shaw&#8217;s Let the Little Light Shine dives into the dynamic between parents, educators, and students embroiled in a battle over closing a high-performing elementary school with a predominantly Black student population in a gentrified Chicago neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>As the premier destination for provocative, critically acclaimed, international non-fiction films, POV&#8217;s 35th season contains an exciting variety. As previously announced, the 2022 Sundance Film Festival acquisition and feature debut by Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing, Midwives, takes us inside the lives of two women working together at a health clinic in Myanmar torn apart by violent ethnic divisions. The season will also feature two Oscar\u00ae-shortlisted films focusing on contemporary African stories. Faya Dayi, directed by Jessica Beshir, immerses viewers into the Oromo and Harari communities of Harar, Ethiopia, and their entwinement with khat, a euphoria-inducing plant that grips the lives and economies of this region. Director Camilla Nielsson&#8217;s Oscar\u00ae-shortlisted film, President, meanwhile, goes inside Zimbabwe&#8217;s 2018 general election in a post-Mugabe landscape.<\/p>\n<p>The series stays true to its &#8220;point of view&#8221; roots with a pair of deeply personal stories about family, caregiving, and people with disabilities. Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand returns to POV with Love &amp; Stuff, harnessing every bit of her signature first-person style, and heimish gallows humor, to face a universally gut wrenching reality &#8211; imagining life without her mother &#8211; who is poised to die from terminal cancer much sooner, than later. While time is not on Helfand&#8217;s side, 25 years worth of archival family footage-turned-cinematic portal is, and in the wake of her mother&#8217;s death becomes a way to link the love to the stuff and one generation to the next. In He&#8217;s My Brother, Danish director Cille Hannibal and co-director Christine Hanberg turn their lens on Christine&#8217;s family and the caretaking of Hanberg&#8217;s brother Peter, who requires very specific care for multiple disabilities. As Peter and Christine&#8217;s parents age, Christine confronts how to continue giving both Peter and herself dignified lives. I Didn&#8217;t See You There, Reid Davenport&#8217;s feature debut, is a personal, unflinching view of the world as a disabled person.<\/p>\n<p>Additional titles, including the fifth anniversary season of the Emmy Award\u00ae-winning series, POV Shorts, plus streaming projects, will be announced later.<\/p>\n<p>POV&#8217;s executive producer Chris White added, &#8220;These films cover a myriad of topics, the political and social issues of our times, but what makes them remarkable is that they are rooted in human experience, bringing viewers into the lives of generous protagonists, active participants in the telling of their own stories. These films are artful illustrations of how we actually operate in the world, relationally. What are our relationships to each other, to our institutions, to power?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>POV is one of the most highly-acclaimed documentary series on television. In the last year, the series received seven News &amp; 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\u00ae nomination for Best Documentary Feature, The Mole Agent (POV Season 33) was also shortlisted for Best International Feature. Recently, Mayor (POV Season 34) received a Peabody nomination and four POV films were awarded Peabody Awards in 2020: The Distant Barking of Dogs, Inventing Tomorrow, Midnight Traveler, and The Silence of Others (POV Season 32).<\/p>\n<p>POV SEASON 35 LINEUP<\/p>\n<p>Special Encore Presentation &#8211; Who Killed Vincent Chin?<br \/>\nFilmmakers: Renee Tajima-Pe\u00f1a and Christine Choy<br \/>\nPremieres: June 20th, 2022<br \/>\nOn a hot summer night in Detroit in 1982, Ronald Ebens, an autoworker, killed Vincent Chin, a young Chinese American engineer with a baseball bat. Although he confessed, he never spent a day in jail. This gripping Academy Award\u00ae-nominated film relentlessly probes the implications of the murder, for the families of those involved, and for the American justice system. Who Killed Vincent Chin?, a legacy title from POV&#8217;s archives, was recently restored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and also added to the National Film Registry. Best Documentary Nominee, 61st Annual Academy Awards\u00ae. A co-presentation with Detroit Public Television and the Center for Asian American Media<\/p>\n<p>Wuhan Wuhan<br \/>\nDirector: Yung Chang<br \/>\nProducers: Donna Gigliotti, Peter Luo and Diane Quon<br \/>\nPremieres: July 11, 2022<br \/>\nWith unprecedented access in a period of pandemic lockdown, Wuhan Wuhan documents February and March 2020 in Wuhan where the coronavirus was first discovered. Going beyond the statistics and salacious headlines, frontline medical workers, patients, and ordinary citizens put a human face on the early days of the mysterious virus as they grapple with an invisible, deadly killer.<\/p>\n<p>Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust<br \/>\nDirector\/Producer: Ann Kaneko<br \/>\nProducers: Jin Yoo-Kim and Tracy Rector<br \/>\nPremieres: July 18, 2022<br \/>\nThree communities intersect, sharing histories of forced removal &#8211; Japanese Americans who were incarcerated at the Manzanar WWII concentration camp, Native Americans who were forced from these lands, and ranchers turned environmentalists, who were bought out by the LA Department of Water and Power. How do they come together in the present moment to defend their land and water from Los Angeles?<br \/>\nA co-production of the Center for Asian American Media and Vision Maker Media. A co-presentation with the Center for Asian American Media.<\/p>\n<p>Winter&#8217;s Yearning<br \/>\nDirectors: Sidse Torstholm Larsen and Sturla Pilskog<br \/>\nProducers: Sturla Pilskog, Are Kvalnes Pilskog, Vibeke Vogel and Emile Hertling P\u00e9ronard.<br \/>\nPremieres: July 25, 2022<br \/>\nIn Maniitsoq, Greenland, the U.S. aluminum giant Alcoa Corporation has been planning to build a smelting plant for years. Pictured against immense, isolating landscapes, the people await their plant and with it, the nation&#8217;s possible first steps towards economic renewal and political sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s My Brother<br \/>\nDirectors\/Producers: Cille Hannibal and Christine Hanberg<br \/>\nPremieres: August 1, 2022<br \/>\nChristine&#8217;s brother Peter experiences his world through touch, smell, and taste. Now 30 years old, Peter&#8217;s family is having trouble finding the proper care for his multiple disabilities. Told through Christine&#8217;s eyes, He&#8217;s My Brother explores how the family works to assure him a dignified life once the parents are gone &#8212; and Christine&#8217;s uncertainties about one day becoming his primary caregiver.<\/p>\n<p>President<br \/>\nDirector: Camilla Nielsson<br \/>\nProducers: Joslyn Barnes and Signe Byrge S\u00f8rensen<br \/>\nPremieres: August 8, 2022<br \/>\nZimbabwe is at a crossroads. The new leader of the opposition party, MDC, Nelson Chamisa, is challenging the old guard, ZANU-PF, represented by the acting president, Emmerson Mnangagwa. The 2018 Zimbabwean general election serves as the ultimate test for both the ruling party and for the opposition. How will they interpret democracy in a post-Mugabe era &#8211; in discourse and in practice?<br \/>\nWinner, 2021 Sundance World Cinema Documentary, Excellence Verit\u00e9 Filmmaking. Shortlisted, 94th Academy Awards\u00ae. A co-presentation with Black Public Media.<\/p>\n<p>Faya Dayi<br \/>\nDirector\/Producer: Jessica Beshir<br \/>\nPremieres: August 29, 2022<br \/>\nA hypnotic immersion in the world of Harar, Ethiopia, a place where one commodity &#8211; khat, a euphoria-inducing plant &#8211; holds sway over the rituals and rhythms of everyday life, Faya Dayi captures intimate moments in the lives of everyone from the harvesters of the crop to people lost in its narcotic haze to a desperate but determined younger generation searching for an escape from political strife.<br \/>\nOfficial selection 2021 Sundance Film Festival. Shortlisted, 94th Academy Awards\u00ae. A co-presentation with Black Public Media.<\/p>\n<p>Love &amp; Stuff<br \/>\nDirectors: Judith Helfand and David Cohen<br \/>\nProducers: Helfand, Hilla Medalia and Julie Parker Benello<br \/>\nPremieres: September 5, 2022<br \/>\nHow do you live without your mother? Filmmaker Judith Helfand asks this unbearable question twice: as a daughter caring for her terminally ill mother, and as an &#8220;old new mom,&#8221; single parenting her much-longed-for adopted baby girl. With footage from 25 years of first-person filmmaking, shiva babka and 63 boxes of dead parents&#8217; &#8220;stuff,&#8221; the film asks: what do we really need to leave our children?<\/p>\n<p>Delikado<br \/>\nDirector\/Producer: Karl Malakunas<br \/>\nProducers: Michael Collins, Marty Syjuco and Kara Magsanoc-Alikpala<br \/>\nPremieres: September 26, 2022<br \/>\nPalawan is one of Asia&#8217;s tourist hotspots. But for a small network of environmental crusaders struggling to protect its spectacular forests and seas, it is more akin to a battlefield. Delikado follows three land defenders as they try to stop politicians and businessmen from destroying the Philippines&#8217; &#8220;last ecological frontier.&#8221;<br \/>\nA co-production of POV and ITVS<\/p>\n<p>The Last Out<br \/>\nDirectors: Sami Khan and Michael Gassert<br \/>\nProducers: Sami Khan, Michael Gassert and Jonathan Miller<br \/>\nPremieres: October 3, 2022<br \/>\nThree Cuban baseball players leave their families and risk exile to chase their dreams of playing in the United States. At the shadowy nexus of the migrant trail and pro sports, The Last Out chronicles their harrowing journey, from immigration obstacles to the broken promises of dubious agents. Against all odds, these young athletes try to hold onto their hope while fighting for a better life for their families.<br \/>\nOfficial selection, 2020 Tribeca Film Festival (premiered in 2021). A co-presentation with Latino Public Broadcasting.<\/p>\n<p>Accepted<br \/>\nDirector\/Producer: Dan Chen<br \/>\nProducers: Mark Monroe, Jason Y. Lee and Jesse Einstein<br \/>\nPremieres: October 10, 2022<br \/>\nAccepted follows four high school students at T.M. Landry, a prep school in Louisiana known for its viral videos of seniors being accepted to the Ivy Leagues, and sending 100% of its graduates to college. But an explosive NY Times article exposes the controversial methods of its dynamic founder &#8211; and the fiction of higher education&#8217;s promise.<br \/>\nOfficial selection, 2021 Tribeca Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p>Midwives<br \/>\nDirector: Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing<br \/>\nProducers: Mila Aung-Thwin, Bob Moore and Ulla Lehmann<br \/>\nPremieres: November 21, 2022<br \/>\nChronicles two women who run a makeshift medical clinic in a region torn apart by violent ethnic divisions. Hla, the owner, is a Buddhist in western Myanmar, where the Rohingya, a Muslim minority, are persecuted and denied basic rights. Nyo Nyo is a Muslim and an apprentice. Encouraged and challenged by Hla, Nyo Nyo is determined to become a steady health care provider for her people.<br \/>\nWinner, 2022 Sundance World Cinema Documentary, Excellence Verit\u00e9 Filmmaking. A co-production of POV.<\/p>\n<p>Let the Little Light Shine<br \/>\nDirector: Kevin Shaw<br \/>\nProducers: Steve James and Rachel Dickson<br \/>\nPremieres: December 12, 2022<br \/>\nNational Teachers Academy (NTA) is considered a beacon for Black children: a top-ranked, high-performing elementary school in the fastest growing neighborhood on Chicago&#8217;s South Side. As the neighborhood gentrifies, a wealthy parents&#8217; group seeks to close NTA and replace it with a high school campus. How will the NTA community fight to save their beloved institution?<br \/>\nA co-production of POV and ITVS, in association with Black Public Media.<\/p>\n<p>I Didn&#8217;t See You There<br \/>\nDirector: Reid Davenport<br \/>\nProducers: Raphael Kriegel and Keith Wilson<br \/>\nPremieres: January 16, 2023<br \/>\nSpurred by the spectacle of a circus tent outside his Oakland apartment, a disabled filmmaker launches into a meditative journey exploring the history of freakdom, vision, and (in)visibility. Shot from director Reid Davenport&#8217;s physical perspective &#8211; mounted to his wheelchair or handheld &#8211; I Didn&#8217;t See You There serves as a clear rebuke to the norm of disabled people being seen and not heard.<br \/>\nWinner, 2022 Sundance, U.S. Documentary Director and Grand Jury Prize nominee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; POV, America&#8217;s longest-running non-fiction series on PBS celebrates its milestone 35th year with a slate of acclaimed thought-provoking films. The award-winning anthology series will premiere fourteen features with themes that include environmental justice, systemic inequity, global perspectives on motherhood, and caregiving during multiple crises. 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