Otherly: The Newest Series From POV Spark
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Otherly: The Newest Series from POV Spark
Aja Evans is an associate producer at POV Spark
About Otherly
Otherly ([link removed]) is a series of seven short documentaries premiering on Instagram stories. Each Otherly film has been imagined by women, nonbinary and genderqueer creators about themselves and their communities. Each film premieres on the Otherly series Instagram Stories, where it will be available for 24 hours and then saved to highlights.
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Otherly Official Trailer | POV | NFB
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Film Schedule
Parked: Seeking Refuge in Our Cars ([link removed]) by Mirusha Yogarajah.
Parked: Seeking Refuge in Our Cars is a short doc about a subculture of Tamil youth who use their vehicles as makeshift second homes to seek freedom. Premieres 3/15.
Elaine Is Almost ([link removed]) by Em Yue. Shot over the course of a year, Elaine Is Almost explores the unconditional love between siblings as they each navigate their place in the world. Premieres 3/17.
Love Is the First Sacred Lesson ([link removed]) by Jess Murwin. Love Is the First Sacred Lesson is a first-person documentary that follows the filmmaker’s journey to connect and reconcile the different parts of their identity: queer, trans, Mi’kmaw. An existential road trip back to the East Coast. Premieres 3/19.
Integrate.Me ([link removed]) by Tristan Angieri. Integrate.Me explores the use of an experimental therapy to treat Tristan’s PTSD, as they learn to navigate being queer and trans. Premieres 3/22.
Papier Accordéon ([link removed]) by Grace An. Papier Accordéon unfolds over a period of 24 hours, as two friends in different cities spend their time together from a distance. Premieres 3/24
A Portrait of Tracy ([link removed]) by Joanne Lam. A Portrait of Tracy is a short experimental doc that explores the echoes of childhood memory from an immigrant’s perspective: what is lost to time and distance, and what remains. Premieres 3/26.
FaceTime ([link removed]) by Jackie! Zhou. FaceTime follows Andy and Farrah as they navigate their individual identities, chosen family, and relationship as bi-coastal siblings. Premieres 3/29 - 4/2.
Major funding for POV Spark's Otherly films was provided by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Open Society Foundations, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Perspective Fund.
Special thanks to our promotional partners: Alok Vaid-Menon, Blackstar Film Festival, Booooooom, Breakwater Studios, Camden International Film Festival, Center for Asian American Media, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, DOCNYC, Eyebeam, Film Fatales, Got a Girl Crush, House of Yes, International Documentary Association, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, Lez Spread the Word, New Museum, NextShark, Outfest, PBS SoCal, The Phluid Project, The Video Consortium and UrbanWorld Film Festival.
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Major funding for POV is provided by PBS, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Wyncote Foundation, Reva & David Logan Foundation, Open Society Foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional funding comes from Acton Family Giving, Nancy Blachman and David desJardins, Bertha Foundation, The Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Charitable Trust, Park Foundation, Sage Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Chris and Nancy Plaut, Abby Pucker, 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.
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