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POV and POV Shorts Nominated in IDA Awards
Last week, POV and POV Shorts were named nominees in the 35th International Documentary Association (IDA) Awards! POV is nominated for Best Curated Series, while POV Shorts is a up for Best Short Form Series.
POV won the prize last year for Best Curated Series—this is the third year in a row POV has been named in the category. Congrats to all the nominees!
Doc NYC: Young Girls of Color on the Front Lines of Social Justice
Catch the New York premiere of We Are the Radical Monarchs, a film following a group alternative to the Scout movement for girls of color. Its members earn badges for completing units on social justice including being an LGBTQ ally, the environment and disability justice.
Filmmakers Linda Goldstein Knowlton, Katie Flint and Arielle Amsalem, plus Radical Monarchs co-founder Anayvette Martinez and Monarch daughter Lupita Martinez will be at the Nov. 9 screening for a Q&A.
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.
