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[email protected] POV online pressroom: www.pbs.org/pov/pressroom “POV Short Cuts” Showcases the Power of Brevity in Six New Short Films Premiering on PBS on Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011 Animation, StoryCorps Oral Histories, Passionate Birders, an Adoption Story from Poland and One Delightfully Irascible Matriarch Make for a Wry and Touching Program of Inventive Shorts POV, public television’s award-winning nonfiction film series, shows that innovation in documentary storytelling is not the province of long-form filmmaking alone. Whether employing freewheeling animation or cinéma vérité, candid musings or fragmented recollections, the films on POV Short Cuts reveal the seriocomic depths of ordinary moments, memories and passions. Included are David Wilson’s Big Birding Day, Andrea Dorfman’s Flawed, Marcin Janos KrawcZyk’s Six Weeks, Beverly Morris’s Tiffany, and two new animated pieces — Miss Devine and No More Questions! — from the award- winning StoryCorps oral-history project. The films of POV Short Cuts will have their national broadcast premieres on Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011 at 10 p.m. on PBS as part of the 24th season of POV (Point of View), which runs through Sept. 27 on Tuesdays at 10 p.m. and continues with specials in November 2011 and winter/spring 2012. (Check local listings.) American television’s longest-running independent documentary series, POV is the winner of a Special Emmy Award for Excellence in Television Documentary Filmmaking, an IDA Award for Best Continuing Series and NALIP’s 2011 Award for Corporate Commitment to Diversity.