Whether it's "New Year, New You" or you're quiet quitting on resolutions, POV is moving forward into 2023 with another slate of outstanding nonfiction films.
In this month's edition:
We asked Producer Opal H. Bennett for her highlights from the critically acclaimed POV Shorts' first four seasons, including the Oscar®-nominated In the Absence chronicling the 2014 Sewol Ferry Disaster in South Korea and IDA winner, Seahorse, where a young Yazidi girl wrestles quietly with her traumatic memories of the Mediterranean Sea. POV Shorts Season 5 returns on Monday, February 13th.
Do Januarys put you in a reflective mood? Well, make a big pot of your favorite tea and check out Time Passages. Our collection is filled to the brim with touching stories that will have you contemplating the great and small things in life, featuring Portraits and Dreams thatrevisits photographs created by Kentucky school children in the 1970s and the place where their photos were made and produced.
Season 35 has its grand finale on Monday, January 9th with the broadcast premiere ofI Didn't See You There, described by RogerEbert.com as "funny, sharply observed... an experimental film of great beauty."
A disabled filmmaker ruminates on the corrosive legacy of the Freak Show.
Major funding for POV is provided by PBS, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Wyncote Foundation, Reva & David Logan Foundation, Open Society Foundations, Perspective Fund and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional funding comes from Nancy Blachman and David desJardins, Bertha Foundation, The Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Charitable Trust, Park Foundation, Sage Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Chris and Nancy Plaut, Abby Pucker, 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.
