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Where's POV This Week?
The POV team is always out there listening to pitches and leading panels. Come check out some POVers in the field in the coming days at these events:
IFP Film Week, Sept. 15–19, Brooklyn: Our programming team is at home in Dumbo to attend meetings and meetups for IFP Week, a gathering dedicated to indie filmmakers and creators.
CCDF, Sept. 21-22, Taipei: POV Co-Producer Nicole Tsien will be on the pitch panel and meeting with filmmakers at the CNEX Chinese Doc Forum.
It's the party of the year, and it's dedicated to you: filmmakers and creators making bold independent documentary. Don't miss a night of dancing and mingling with the community, following the Annual AmDoc Gala! Our inaugural Doc Prom co-hosts include A-DOC, DCTV, Doc Society and the D-Word.
The American Dream is more than a white picket fence. WNET's new series GOODTalks features hosts Troye, Darius and Danny who challenge what we think about the American Dream and what it means in 2019.
The web series premieres every third Tuesday at 12 p.m. ET, starting today.
Black Public Media is looking for feature-length docs and shorts (nonfiction or scripted) to fund. The deadline to submit is Nov. 15, 2019. Apply here.
The late deadline for Big Sky Documentary Film Festival is Friday, Oct. 14.
Major funding for POV is provided by PBS, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts and the Wyncote Foundation. Additional funding comes from The John S. and James Knight Foundation, Nancy Blachman and David desJardins, Bertha Foundation, Reva & David Logan Foundation, Open Society Foundations, Chicago Media Project, Lefkofsky Family Foundation, Sage Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee and public television viewers. POV is presented by a consortium of public television stations, including KQED San Francisco, WGBH Boston and THIRTEEN in association with WNET.ORG.
