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NYC: POV Shorts Film at the IFC Center
Join POV and The New York Times Op-Docs team next week for an evening of short films with outsize impact, all from this season’s New York Times’ Op-Docs project, followed by a conversation with the filmmakers and Times producers. The lineup include POV Shorts film Stay Close, which you can stream now.
We also invite you to a special screening of S32 film Roll Red Roll, which will be followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Nancy Schwartzman, and hosted by Erin Casper and Lee Hirsch.
We also invite you to a special screening of S32 film Roll Red Roll at our POV screening room in Brooklyn, which will be followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Nancy Schwartzman, and hosted by Erin Casper and Lee Hirsch.
Seeking Mentors for the Next Generation of Doc Makers
Reelworks is currently seeking mentors for their documentary, narrative and fellows programs as part of their MediaMKRS initiative.
If you’re a highly experience media professional and want to help a young filmmaker tell their story to the world, reach out to Reelworks through the form 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:
Doc NYC, New York, Nov. 6-15: Our programming teamwill be attending Doc NYC’s Only in New York meetings, 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.
Applications for the 2020 CAAM Fellowship are now open and will be accepting submissions through Nov. 18.
The Human Rights Watch Film Festival is hiring a part-time programming and production assistant for January through June 2020. Apply by Nov. 26.
Pacific Islanders in Communications (PIC) is accepting projects for the Media Fund. Apply by Dec. 6.
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.
