Teen filmmaker Julia Levy, of Seattle, Wash., was awarded a Project VoiceScape grant this year. Her documentary The Fifth Star, about women's suffrage in Washington, is being completed under the mentorship of Rose Rosenblatt and Marion Lipschutz (Live Free or Die, The Education of Shelby Knox).

On Tuesday April 19th at 1 pm ET, Shelby Knox and filmmakers Marion Lipschutz and Rose Rosenblatt will participate in a live chat with viewers. Send them a question or sign up for a reminder email to join the discussion.

Remember Shelby Knox, the subject of our 2005 film, The Education of Shelby Knox? Shelby was a feisty teenager from Lubbock, Texas that filmmakers Marion Lipschutz and Rose Rosenblatt followed in their amazing documentary. The self-described “good Southern Baptist girl” who had pledged abstinence before marriage became an unlikely advocate for comprehensive sex education when […]

Speaking of POV flashbacks and film updates, I finally got the chance to check out a link that fellow staffer Eliza Licht sent around the office a couple weeks ago. Shelby Knox, the central character in The Education of Shelby Knox (POV 2005), recently became a blogger for the Huffington Post. Her beat, not surprisingly, […]

March is National Women’s History Month, so why not curl up with some films from the POV archives that celebrate amazing, courageous women from around the country? The women showcased in these three POV films — an African-American Congresswoman running for president; a Christian teenager from Lubbock, Texas; and an Asian-American architect — are very […]

I ran into Shelby Knox, a passionate young activist, recently in Manhattan. We first got to know each other in 2005 when POV broadcasted The Education of Shelby Knox. Still one of our most requested films by communities across the country — the film follows Shelby, a Southern Baptist high school student from a politically […]