The final episode of FaceTime (dir. Jackie! Zhou) is now available on @otherlyseries on Instagram! And you can watch all of the Otherly films on the account's highlights.
POV Engage and the Otherly filmmakers collaborated on a series of Lesson Plans aimed at helping students learn about such practices as interviewing, archiving, identifying patterns in narratives, community storytelling and creating honest self-portrayals.
More than just films, check out these panels + events that delve deeper into series themes, including vulnerability as craft, the future of storytelling and social media in the classroom. All panel discussions are now in @otherlyseries IGTV.
Parked: Seeking Refuge in Our Cars 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. Premiered 3/15.
Elaine Is Almost 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. Premiered 3/17.
Love Is the First Sacred Lesson 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. Premiered 3/19.
Integrate.Me 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. Premiered 3/22.
Papier Accordéon 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. Premiered 3/24
A Portrait of Tracy 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. Premiered 3/26.
FaceTime by Jackie! Zhou. FaceTime follows Andy and Farrah as they navigate their individual identities, chosen family, and relationship as bi-coastal siblings. Premiered 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.
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.
