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POV 2009: The Way We Get By
  • POV at the News and Documentary Emmys Tonight
    We’re excited for the 31st Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards at Lincoln Center tonight. Three POV films have received four nominations, and POV alum Frederick Wiseman (High School, POV 2001) will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award. The nominated POV films are: The English Surgeon, The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court (two […]
    Ruiyan Xu 1 min read September 27, 2010 Documentary News Comments
  • The Way We Get By – A Soldier's Story of Being Greeted
    Last week, we rebroadcast the Emmy-nominated The Way We Get By. You can also watch it online through September 27, 2010. The film portrays a group of senior citizens who greet American soldiers at a tiny airport in Bangor, Maine. We received a number of amazing comments after the film aired, and wanted to highlight […]
    POV Staff 7 min read August 9, 2010 Documentary News Comments
  • Weekly Roundup: Rebroadcasting a 2009 Hit and More
    This week, we take another look at The Way We Get By and check out new projects from POV alums. Joan Gaudet with actor Morgan Freeman. Photo courtesy of Aron Gaudet. The Emmy-nominated film The Way We Get By first aired last November as a POV Special on Veterans Day. The film follows Joan, Bill […]
    Ruiyan Xu 2 min read August 6, 2010 Documentary News Comments
  • The Way We Get By – An Update from the Filmmaker
    The Way We Get By first aired on POV in 2009 to great acclaim. It will rebroadcast on select PBS stations (check your local listings) on Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010. The film has also been nominated for a News and Documentary Emmy Award! We emailed filmmaker Aron Gaudet to catch up on all things The […]
    POV Staff 5 min read August 2, 2010 Documentary News Comments
  • Watch “The Way We Get By” on PBS Video and Win a CD of the Soundtrack
    If you missed The Way We Get By when it was originally broadcast in November, and didn’t have a chance to watch it while it was streaming on the PBS Video Portal, here’s your chance — we’re offering the full film again. The film will be available until February 1, 2010, and we need you […]
    Catherine Jhee 1 min read January 25, 2010 Documentary News Comments
  • Weekly Roundup: Cinema Eye, Sundance and More
    This week, we take a look back at the Cinema Eye Honors, a look ahead to the Sundance Film Festival and give POV fans a second look at The Way We Get By. The Cinema Eye Honors took place last Friday, and by all accounts, it was a brilliant evening! Doc Soup Man Tom Roston […]
    Ruiyan Xu 3 min read January 21, 2010 Documentary News Comments
  • Appreciating Military Families
    POV’s outreach and development coordinator Jessica Lee recently attended a screening of POV’s The Way We Get By on Capitol Hill. She writes about the experience and tells us what struck her about the film, its subjects and the screening. Recently, President Obama officially declared this November Military Family Month. As someone who has had […]
    Jessica Lee 3 min read November 20, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • “The Way We Get By” Receives IFP and Fledgling Fund Grant for Outreach and Community Engagement
    The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) has teamed up with The Fledgling Fund to award the first The Fledgling Fund Outreach and Engagement Grant for Social Issue Documentaries to The Way We Get By, which aired on POV this week. We send our congratulations to filmmakers Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly for this fantastic honor. For […]
    Ruiyan Xu 2 min read November 13, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • Audience Appreciation for 'The Way We Get By'
    Last night’s special Veterans Day broadcast of POV’s The Way We Get By prompted a tremendous response from PBS viewers — in fact, the most viewer emails, comments, tweets, etc. we’ve received in a very long time. Many U.S. service men and women and their families wrote to say that the film reminded them of […]
    theresa 5 min read November 12, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • Watch “The Way We Get By” on PBS Tonight
    Today is Veterans Day, the one day out of the year that is specifically designated as a time to honor those who serve our country. But Bill Knight, Jerry Mundy, Joan Gaudet and the rest of the Maine Troop Greeters honor veterans and military members throughout the year by greeting them at a tiny airport […]
    Ruiyan Xu 2 min read November 11, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • How Did “The Way We Get By” End Up on POV?
    The Way We Get By premieres on PBS next Wednesday, November 11 at 9 pm on most PBS stations. (Check local listings.) In this video clip from the film’s world premiere screening at the SXSW Film Festival, a member of the audience asked how the film got chosen to be on POV. Here’s what filmmaker […]
    theresa 1 min read November 4, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • POV to Relaunch “Re: Vietnam” as “Regarding War” Next Month
    In 1996, a “dog’s age ago” in Internet time, POV launched one of our first websites entitled “Re: Vietnam | Stories Since the War.” It was conceived as a companion website to the POV/PBS broadcast of the Academy Award-winning film, Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision. On the site’s homepage, a quote from Maya Lin […]
    theresa 4 min read October 16, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • Link Roundup
    MoMA’s retrospective of Kim Longinotto‘s work starts this week. This is a rare chance to see all of Kim’s masterful films in America, and to hear from Kim herself — she is considered one of the foremost vérité filmmakers in the documentary world. Kim’s film Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go will air on POV […]
    Ruiyan Xu 2 min read May 7, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • 'The Way We Get By' Comes to New York
    On Tuesday night, POV co-presented the New York premiere of The Way We Get By (which will air as a POV November special on PBS) at the IFC Center in Greenwich Village. The screening was a part of Thom Powers‘ venerable Stranger than Fiction (STF) documentary series, and capped a full New York day for […]
    Andrew Catauro 1 min read April 30, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • The Way We Get By's World Premiere at SXSW
    The Way We Get By filmmakers Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly have been at SXSW this week to premiere their film, which will air on POV in November 2009. Gita writes in to tell us more about the adventures of two filmmakers in Austin, Texas. Getting prepared for SXSW was intense for us — we […]
    POV Guest Blogger 4 min read March 19, 2009 Documentary News Comments