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Intern at AmDoc!
Applications for our spring internship are now open! We’re accepting applications through Dec. 7—interns will gain training and mentorship at AmDoc, the nonprofit behind public media showcases like POV and America ReFramed, through our hands-on educational program designed to provide in-depth experience with the public media and documentary field.
Saturday at Doc NYC: The Scouts Group That Made Fox News Angry
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.
Celebrating a Decade of Firelight
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. There’s just one more day to reserve tickets to Thursday’s event!
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:
Doc NYC, New York, Nov. 6-15: Nicole Tsien, co-producer of POV, will be part of an Only in New York panel, where over the course of four days (Nov. 11-14), filmmakers will network with financiers, producers, sales agents, distributors, festival programmers and other industry representatives at the DOC NYC PRO conference that runs concurrently with the festival.
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.
