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POV Spark Project at the Great Chicago Pitch
Last month POV Spark's interactive project The Queen versus Godfred pitched an audience of over 200, raising over $100,000 in donations with four other documentary projects.
Geoff Morrison, one of the creators behind The Queen versus Godfred, had this to say about the event: “It was a true honor to be pitching alongside some of the most important new documentaries in production today, especially as a project that’s taking a new approach to nonfiction storytelling. The response to our pitch was incredible, and we’re more confident than ever that our interactive visual podcast is going to strike a chord with audiences far and wide.”
You can still support the project and learn more about it through the links below!
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:
Santa Fe Independent Film Festival, Oct. 17–20: America ReFramed associate producer Robert Chang will be a panelist and juror this week.
New Orleans Film Festival, Oct. 17–19: America ReFramed supervising producer Carmen Vicencio will be at the If/Then Pitch as a juror.
DocsMX, Mexico City, Oct. 14–18: POV co-producer Nikki Heyman is jurying and attending labs and pitches this week.
Good Pitch USA, New York, Oct. 22: America ReFramed supervising producer Carmen Vicencio will be attending the program at the TimesCenter.
Calls for Entries From Our Friends:
The Paley Center for Media is accepting pitches from emerging filmmakers. The extended deadline is Oct. 31. 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.
