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Using Film to Inspire the Next Generation of Science Innovators
Next week join POV for a webinar showing how educators can use documentary to address environmental issues in the classroom.
Using Inventing Tomorrow and its accompanying education materials, the webinar will include special guests Laura Nix, director of the S32 film, and Catherine Tabor, an El Paso-based classroom teacher.
Preparing Young New Yorkers for TV and Film Production
We're proud to be an advisory council member for MediaMKRS, a new initiative from the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment to train, credential and prepare New York high school and college students for technical careers in the City's thriving television and film production industries.
MediaMKRS will open new doors for and prepare young New Yorkers for TV and film careers. Learn more about the program below.
Firelight Media, the storied supporter and cultivator of nonfiction stories by emerging filmmakers of color, is celebrating ten years of enriching the documentary community in a couple weeks—reserve your tickets by Oct. 29!
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:
Good Pitch USA, New York, Oct. 22: We have several team members at the program today: Justine Nagan, executive producer of POV/America ReFramed; Carmen Vicencio,America ReFramed supervising producer; and Asad Muhammad, vice president of impact and engagement strategy, will be in attendance at the Times Center.
Calls for Entries From Our Friends:
The Doc Society New Perspectives seed fund is open to applicanations until Oct. 30. Learn more and apply here.
The Paley Center for Media is accepting pitches from emerging filmmakers. The extended deadline is Oct. 31. 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.
