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  • Upcoming POV Screenings
    With summer on everyone's mind, youth-centered films are popular this week - screenings are happening throughout the country! Check out our local screenings map to find out about POV community screenings happening in your area.
    POV Staff 1 min read June 20, 2014 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Upcoming POV Screenings
    Join fellow documentary lovers over the next week for POV screening events across the country, from Idaho to Montana, to Virginia and New York.
    POV Staff 1 min read December 14, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Upcoming POV Documentary Screenings
    As we make our way through August, community partners across the country continue to host public screenings of POV premieres, encores and films from the archive. Here are some of their upcoming events.
    POV Staff 2 min read August 20, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Upcoming POV Sneak Preview Screenings
    Community partners across the country are hosting pre-broadcast sneak preview screenings of upcoming POV films.
    POV Staff 1 min read June 8, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Upcoming POV Documentary Screenings
    Community partners across the country are hosting pre-broadcast sneak preview screenings of the upcoming POV film The City Dark.
    POV Staff 1 min read June 1, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Upcoming POV Documentary Screenings
    Community events continue across the country, including sneak preview screenings of our upcoming 25th anniversary season.
    POV Staff 1 min read May 25, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • This Sunday: Sweetgrass Screens in Barn at Queens County Farm
    This Sunday, celebrate Queens County Farm with sheep shearing and spinning demos, farm tours, live music, hay rides, wine tasting, some of the city's best food trucks and a screening of POV's Sweetgrass in the farm's barn complex.
    POV Staff 1 min read May 4, 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
  • Upcoming POV Documentary Screenings Near You
    Check out where in the country POV films will be screening this weekend and next week...
    POV Staff 1 min read April 20, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Upcoming POV Documentary Screenings Near You
    Wednesday, March 21st is a busy day for POV Community Engagement! Check out some of the screenings happening around the country.
    POV Staff 1 min read March 16, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Host a Free POV Documentary Screening in Your Community!
    POV helps educators, students, community organizers, librarians and PBS station staffers hold free screenings of documentaries about social issues. Find out how.
    Jamie Dobie 1 min read August 19, 2011 Documentary News Comments
  • Link Roundup
    POV alum Sam Kauffman, whose thoughtful and provocative short film, Massacre at Murambi, premiered on POV in 2007, has been awarded a Guggenheim fellowship. In this BU Today article, Sam talks about how he plans on using the fellowship to return to Africa. Another POV alum, Marshall Curry, whose Street Fight (POV 2005) was nominated […]
    Ruiyan Xu 1 min read April 29, 2009 Documentary News Comments