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PBS Online Film Festival Returns for Second Year
Festival Kicks Off March 4 Featuring 25 Short Films
ALEXANDRIA, VA; FEBRUARY 28, 2013 -- PBS announced today that its popular PBS Online Film Festival will return for a second year, beginning March 4. The festival will showcase 25 short films that feature a diversity of subjects, voices and viewpoints; accessible via all PBS digital platforms, YouTube and PBS social media channels.
PBS is committed to providing access to the best in independent filmmaking, in short and long form, online and on-air. The Online Film Festival is a great example of how PBS can leverage the web's reach to showcase the terrific work of our producing partners, including PBS member stations, said Jason Seiken, PBS SVP and General Manager, Digital. We see the Online Film Festival as another example of how PBS and our partners are innovating and experimenting with different formats and platforms to deliver great content.
Viewers will have the opportunity to vote for their favorite short film from March 4 through March 22; the film with the most votes will receive the People's Choice Award.
The featured films (see full list below) were produced by a number public media partners, including Independent Television Service (ITVS), POV, Center for Asian American Media (CAAM), Latino Public Broadcasting (LPB), Vision Maker Media, National Black Programming Consortium (NPBC) and Pacific Islanders in Communications (PIC). This year's festival also includes films from PBS stations KCTS 9 (Seattle), KLRU (Austin), PBS SoCaL (Los Angeles), WGTE (Toledo) and WCVE (Richmond, Virginia).
More information and a preview video for the PBS Online Film Festival can be found at pbs.org/filmfestival. For updates on the festival, follow #PBSolff on Twitter.
Short films featured in the PBS Online Film Festival include:
Independent Television Service (ITVS)
Brionna Williams
Meet Brionna Williams: At 14, she was suffering from health problems and chronic asthma. Now a 17-year-old senior at Kansas City's Central High School, Brionna has become healthier and has found focus as a highly recruited student athlete.
Can't Hold Me Back
The film follows Fernando Parraz as he becomes the first in his family to earn a high school diploma his ticket out of the struggles of inner-city poverty and violence. With a mountain of roadblocks stacked against his educational achievement, Fernando finds support from an unlikely figure: his father a former gangster who has suffered the costs of his own mistakes.
Story of an Egg
Can learning the meaning of a single term actually help change the food system? David Evans and Alexis Koefoed think so. These poultry farmers explain the real story behind such terms as cage free, free range and pasture raised so that consumers can make informed decisions when they go to their local supermarket.
POV
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.
CatCam
An engineer straps a camera on a stray cat in North Carolina and inadvertently creates a media sensation.
Sound of Vision
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.
Center for Asian American Media (CAAM)
Verses in Exile: Why I Write
Vehement Khmer American spoken word artist Kosal Khiev delivers a passionate personal narrative in this engaging, head-on collision between the political and personal.
Indian Summer
This short documentary brings together first generation Indian American youth with similar feelings of alienation to document their religious and cultural point of view.
POV and Latino Public Broadcasting (LPB)
Sin Pas (Without Country)
Winner of a 2012 Student Academy Award, Sin Pas explores one family's experience as members are separated by deportation.
Vision Maker Media
Hoverboard
After watching Back to the Future 2, an imaginative young girl and her stuffed teddy bear try to invent a real working hoverboard.
Vision Maker Media and ITVS
Injunuity : Buried
Injunuity is a unique mix of animation, music and real thoughts from real people exploring our world from the Native American perspective. Buried shares Oblone activist and educator Corinna Gould's reflection on the destruction of sacred shell mounds in the San Francisco Bay Area of California.
National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC)
Asylum Bisi
Bisi Alimi describes coming out as a gay man on national television in Nigeria.
Asylym Skye
Skyle Tenevimbo stood up to Robert Mugabe and her actions brought unwanted attention to her family back in Zimbabwe.
Pacific Islanders in Communication (PIC)
Lina'la' Lusong
Unshaken by centuries of colonial conquest and the changing tides of occupation, the lusong has endured to heal and feed the people of the land, and to impart a sacred lesson of survival.
KCTS 9 (Seattle)
Capsule
Two astronauts struggle to stay alive as their crashed space capsule slowly runs out of oxygen.
Honor the Treaties
A portrait of photographer Aaron Huey's work on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Featuring Shepard Fairy.
The House I Keep
A short film about a young woman's emotional struggle to come to terms with her miscarriage.
KLRU (Austin)
Noc na Tanecku (Night at the Dance)
A profile of the last days of a Czech dance hall in rural Texasand the old-timers who come there to polka.
Mijo
An evocative portrayal of a mother and child's intimate relationship in the midst of life-altering
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