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  • Up the Yangtze's Yung Chang Answers Viewer Questions
    Yung Chang is the director of Up the Yangtze, which aired on POV on October 8, 2008. After the broadcast, many viewers wrote with questions for Yung. Read on for Yung’s responses to some of the questions he received. Loree asks: You must have made a deep emotional connection with all the people in your […]
    Ruiyan Xu 4 min read October 22, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • Doc Soup: The Audacity of Hope
    Maybe it’s the Obama campaign, but the activist in me is coming out and I’ve got something I’m fired up about. I have to admit, it’s not entirely a selfless cause. It’s something that could have great political impact, but, just as important, it’s something that could make us all laugh. And I think we […]
    Tom Roston 2 min read October 13, 2008 Doc Soup Comments
  • What's Your POV About 'Up the Yangtze'?
    Sixteen-year-old “Cindy” Yu Shui, the daughter of an illiterate farmer, dreams of pursing her education and becoming a scientist, despite her family’s poverty. But as the rising waters of the Yangtze River begin to displace her family’s hut, she leaves home to take a job on a cruise ship on the Yangtze River, washing dishes […]
    Ruiyan Xu 3 min read October 6, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • Ask the Filmmaker: Up the Yangtze's Yung Chang
    Up the Yangtze takes a close look at the effects of the construction of China’s Three Gorges Dam, which is altering the landscape and the lives of people living along the fabled Yangtze River. Filmmaker Yung Chang shows us both the bigger picture — the transformation of the river by the biggest hydroelectric dam in […]
    Ruiyan Xu 2 min read October 6, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • Film and Environmental Activism: Catching up with Everything's Cool's Judith Helfand and Daniel B. Gold
    Environmental issues are a hot topic this election year. David Nanasi caught up with POV alum Judith Helfand (A Healthy Baby Girl, POV 1997 and True Lives 2005, and The Uprising of ’34, POV 1995) and Daniel B. Gold to hear more about what they’ve been doing to support their latest film, Everything’s Cool. Both […]
    David Nanasi 6 min read January 29, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • Gift Guide: The Gift of Documentaries
    Looking for a gift for your history-obsessed uncle? Your environmentally-conscious friend? Your urban sophisticate of a brother-in-law? Documentary DVDs could be the way to their heart this holiday season. When it comes to ordering documentaries, the glut of online stores selling DVDs make purchasing and shipping a breeze, but buyers and gifters beware: despite what […]
    Ruiyan Xu 2 min read December 19, 2007 Documentary News Comments