Premiering on Instagram Stories, Otherlyis a series of seven short documentaries about finding one’s place in the 21st century. Using universal themes like love, inclusion, and loss as entry points, seven female, non-binary, and genderqueer creators have crafted films that are at once timeless and yet by definition of their form, ephemeral.
Join us for these upcoming panels + events to delve deeper into series themes, presented by POV Spark and the National Film Board of Canada.
Join us as we strategize ways to incorporate interactive media into classroom learning. Lead by Jade Sanchez-Ventura, writer and radical educator, this panel will introduce Otherly Series Educational Resources. Jade will offer valuable tips and ideas for engaging students in the virtual spaces where they already live such as Instagram and TikTok. During this panel filmmakers Em Yue, Jackie! Zhou, Tristan Angieri will share the inspiration for these education resources and the unique role Instagram played in telling their stories.
Algorithms, a set of rules to be followed by a computer, are the building blocks to how we surround and inform our daily practices beyond technology. Moderated by Kemi Kemi Sijuwade-Ukadike, Rapid Response Project Manager at Eyebeam, this panel will interrogate the way algorithms are shifting the type of information we receive and changing our conceptual base of reality. Is this reality shift altering the stories we create and share with one another? What does the future of storytelling look like when our stories are dictated by algorithms we don’t have control over? How will storytelling evolve to fit this new reality?
During this panel you will hear from creators like Zen Zen, developer of Togethernet. Togethernet is an open-source communication software designed around the ethos of transparency and consent. Come learn how artists are finding ways to build networks of solidarity and togetherness in the digital space and claim power.
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 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.
