Loira Limbal's documentary feature film Through the Nightbroadcasts tonight on POV on PBS (check local listings). Through the Night is a verité documentary that explores the personal cost of our modern economy through the stories of two working mothers and a child care provider, whose lives intersect at a 24-hour daycare center in New Rochelle, New York.
Tune in to the film that The New York Timescalled an "act of solidarity", a film that "bears witness to the struggles of... working people, to their tenderness and mercy," and that The Hollywood Reporter described as "both celebration and indictment. A sympathetic depiction of “women’s work,” in all its unsung dignity, it’s also a quietly damning portrait of a merciless economy’s effect on working-class mothers — particularly black women and Latinas." Through the Night was an Official Selection of the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival and received a Special Jury Recognition at the 2020 DOC NYC Film Festival.
POV believes in the power of film to engage communities in dialogue around the most pressing social issues of our time. Use the accompanying resources for Through the Nightto learn about the issues and get involved:
The broadcast of Through the Night will be accompanied by the public television premiere of Standing Above the Cloudsdirected by Jalena Keane-Lee, a special presentation by POV Shorts. Following Native Hawaiian mother-daughter activists as they stand to protect their sacred mountain Mauna Kea from the building of the world’s largest telescope, Standing Above the Clouds continues POV's celebration of Mother's Day with powerful stories about childcare, the multiplicity of "women's work," activism and motherhood.
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.
