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  • Watch Online: StoryCorps' Marking The Distance
    Starting Friday, November 1, 2013, you can stream Marking the Distance, one of six the StoryCorps Shorts that make up our upcoming broadcast Listening Is an Act of Love: A StoryCorps Special.
    POV Staff 2 min read October 31, 2013 POV Films Blog Comments
  • PBS 2013 Online Film Festival: Watch & Vote for Ars Magna
    Watch and vote for Ars Magna. Nominated for a News and Documentary Emmy® Award, Ars Magna enters into the obsessive and fascinating world of anagrams with a man who took the first three lines of Hamlet’s “To Be or Not to Be” and created what has been called “the world’s greatest anagram.”
    POV Staff 1 min read March 8, 2013 POV Films Blog Comments
  • PBS 2013 Online Film Festival: Watch & Vote for CatCam
    Watch and vote for CatCam, where an engineer straps a camera on a stray cat in North Carolina and inadvertently creates a media sensation.
    POV Staff 1 min read March 7, 2013 POV Films Blog Comments
  • PBS 2013 Online Film Festival: Watch & Vote for Sin País
    Watch and vote for Sin País. Winner of a 2012 Student Academy Award®, Sin País explores a family’s experience as members are separated by deportation.
    POV Staff 1 min read March 6, 2013 POV Films Blog Comments
  • PBS 2013 Online Film Festival: Watch & Vote for Sound of Vision
    Watch and vote for Sound of Vision, where a blind musician spends his waking hours confronting the hurdles and embracing the cacophony of “The City That Never Sleeps” — New York — which he will never see.
    POV Staff 1 min read March 5, 2013 POV Films Blog Comments
  • PBS 2013 Online Film Festival: Vote to Determine the People's Choice Winner
    All of the films from PBS's second Online Film Festival are now online! Watch and vote for your favorite shorts!
    POV Staff 2 min read March 4, 2013 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Watch StoryCorps: Sundays at Rocco's
    Watch StoryCorps: Sundays at Rocco's: Nicholas Petron remembers family dinners at his grandfather's place and how everything changed when the city made new plans for their neighborhood.
    POV Staff 0 min read November 15, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Last Chance to Watch Select POV Short Docs Online!
    Watch The Barber of Birmingham, Sin País and other documentary shorts free online while you can!
    POV Staff 2 min read November 2, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Join a “Social Screening” of the Peabody Award-Winning StoryCorps Animated Shorts
    Join POV, StoryCorps and ITVS for a special "social" screening of StoryCorps Shorts on Tuesday, May 15.
    POV Staff 1 min read May 11, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Upcoming POV Documentary Screenings
    POV community screenings continue across the country, including one of our first sneak previews of My Reincarnation (POV 2012).
    POV Staff 1 min read May 11, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • “Listening Is an Act of Love” at Georgetown Public Library This May
    Librarian Sheri Miklaski tells POV about the Georgetown (Texas) Public Library's month of programming around the StoryCorps interview collection Listening is an Act of Love and POV's StoryCorps Animated Shorts.
    POV Staff 3 min read April 26, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • 2012 Webby Award Nominees in the Documentary and Social Issue Categories
    The Webby Awards has announced its nominees for 2012, and the list of honorees includes StoryCorps Shorts: September 11 Stories!
    POV Staff 3 min read April 10, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • PBS Online Film Festival: Watch 'Seltzer Works'
    Your votes will determine the People's Choice Winner in PBS's first-ever Online Film Festival! The short film Seltzer Works profiles third-generation seltzer-filler Kenny Gomberg, the last bottler in Brooklyn.
    POV Staff 1 min read April 6, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • PBS Online Film Festival: Watch 'The Archive'
    Watch this Emmy-nominated short film about a man and his giant record collection (that no one wants), then vote for it and it be the People's Choice Winner in PBS's first-ever Online Film Festival!
    POV Staff 1 min read April 5, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • PBS Online Film Festival: Watch 34x25x36
    Watch and vote for 34x25x26, a short film that shows the inner workings of the Patina V Mannequin Factory and the musings of the designers who decide what the perfect female body should look like.
    POV Staff 1 min read April 4, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • PBS Online Film Festival: Watch 'Flawed'
    Your votes will determine the People's Choice Winner in PBS's first-ever Online Film Festival! In the animated film Flawed, a woman is uneasy about beginning a relationship with a plastic surgeon.
    POV Staff 1 min read April 3, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • PBS Online Film Festival: Which Film Will Be the People's Choice Winner?
    All of the films from PBS's first-ever Online Film Festival are now online! Watch and vote for your favorite shorts!
    POV Staff 2 min read April 1, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Five POV Short Films Selected for PBS Online Film Festival
    PBS announced today that it will launch its first Online Film Festival, showcasing of 20 short films from independent filmmakers. The selections include five POV short films: Seltzer Works, The Archive, This Gay and Age, Flawed, and 34x25x36.
    POV Staff 3 min read February 22, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments

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