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A Night to Remember
Last week we threw the third AmDoc Annual Gala, celebrating changemakers and storytellers at PUBLIC Arts Manhattan. With your help, we raised over $100,000, including a generous $25,000 matching grant from the Reva and David Logan Foundation. A huge thanks to our host committee, sponsors, board and all who contributed!
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:
DocsMX, Mexico City, Oct. 14–18: POV co-producer Nikki Heyman will be jurying and attending labs and pitches next week at the 14th edition of this international film festival.
Double Exposure, Washington, D.C., Oct. 10–13: Director of audience strategy Keisha Salmon will be in D.C. this week at the nation's first festival dedicated to investigative reporting on film.
Calls for Entries From Our Friends:
The late deadline for Big Sky Documentary Film Festival is Friday, Oct. 14. Apply here.
The Doc Society New Perspectives seed fund is open to applicanations until Oct. 30. Learn more and apply here.
Applications are now open for the 2019 Diverse Voices in Docs fellowship, organized by Kartemquin and the Community Film Workshop of Chicago. The deadline to submit is Nov. 1.
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.
Stay updated on more resources and opportunities through the AmDoc website:
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.
