What should you do before you get a pet? "Do your research and be prepared for your life to become hell," says this member of a middle-class household in Mumbai after its eccentric patriarch brings home a pet rooster in Tungrus, directed by Rishi Chandna. And in The Traffic Separating Device, directed by Johan Palmgren, a tire-destroying traffic device in Stockholm quickly gains a crowd of curious onlookers eager to see if unwitting drivers can come to their senses before it's too late.
Major funding for POV is provided by PBS, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Open Society Foundations, the Wyncote Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional funding comes from Acton Family Giving, Nancy Blachman and David desJardins, Bertha Foundation, Reva & David Logan Foundation, Chicago Media Project, 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.
