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Where's POV This Week?
POV Staff and Last Men in Aleppo (POV 2017) filmmaker Feras Fayyad at last year's News & Doc Emmy Awards.
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:
News & Doc Emmy Awards, TONIGHT, New York: The AmDoc team and nominated filmmakers will be at Lincoln Center celebrating films nominated for the News & Doc Emmys. POV, POV Shorts and America ReFramed are up for nine Emmys.
Producers Club, Sept. 25, New York: Justine Nagan, executive producer/executive director of POV/American Documentary will introduce POV film Roll Red Roll at the Producers Club. Learn more about the event further down the newsletter!
March on Washington Film Festival (MOWFF), Sept. 27, Washington, D.C.: Vice President of Impact Strategy and Engagement Asad Muhammad will be on a panel and pitch forum for the film festival celebrating the Civil Rights Movement.
The place to be seen: next week, following the AmDoc Annual Gala, filmmakers and creators will be dancing and celebrating to the beats of DJ Rekha, the creator behind NYC's iconic Basement Bhangra. Remember, dress code: bold.
Tomorrow the Gender Equality Law Center presents a special screening of Roll Red Roll at the Producers' Club in New York.
A true-crime thriller going behind the headlines of the rape of Jane Doe in Steubenville, Ohio, the film screening will be followed by a special Q&A with the director Nancy Schwartzman and attorney Carrie Goldberg, who specializes in sexual privacy violations.
Our external affairs department is seeking a donor relations manager! We're looking for an enthusiastic team player to help develop, implement and execute an individual giving strategy—learn more about the position below.
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.
