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POV Films Nominated for Six News & Documentary Emmy® Awards
Nominated Films: ‘56 Up,’ ‘Brooklyn Castle,’ ‘Herman’s House,’ ‘Reportero,’ ‘Special Flight’ and ‘The World Before Her’
Winners to Be Announced on Sept. 30, 2014, in New York Update – October 1, 2014: POV Wins 2014 News & Documentary Emmy® Award for 'Herman's House'
New York, NY – July 15, 2014 – POV (Point of View), public television’s premier showcase for independent documentaries, has received six nominations for the 2014 News & Documentary Emmy® Awards, it was announced today by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The nominated films are 56 Up, Brooklyn Castle, Herman’s House, Reportero, Special Flight and The World Before Her. PBS received a total of 43 nominations.
The 35th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards, honoring programming distributed during the calendar year 2012, will be presented on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014 at a ceremony at Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, located in the Time Warner Center in New York City. Emmy Awards will be presented in 43 categories, including the first-ever categories reserved for news and documentary programming in Spanish.
“We’re thrilled to see such a wide range of subjects represented by these nominations,” said Simon Kilmurry, Executive Producer of POV. “For both established filmmakers and newcomers, POV is the destination for documentaries that explore contemporary social issues with extraordinary stories of people taking risks and effecting change.”
POV has previously won 32 Emmy Awards, including a 2007 Special News & Documentary Emmy for Excellence in Television Documentary Filmmaking. POV has garnered a total of 119 Emmy nominations, including several Primetime Emmy® nominations. In addition, POV has won 17 George Foster Peabody Awards, 12 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Broadcast Journalism Awards, three Academy Awards®, the Prix Italia, the Webby, two IDA Awards for Best Continuing Series and the National Association of Latino Independent Producers’ Corporate Commitment to Diversity Award. In 2013, POV was honored with a MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions.
The 35th Annual News & Documentary Emmy® Awards honors programming distributed during the calendar year 2013. POV’s Emmy nominations follow (visit www.pbs.org/pov/pressroom/ for descriptions, links, embeddable trailers, art and press releases):
Outstanding Coverage a Current News Story—Long Form • Brooklyn Castle – Director/Producer: Katie Dellamaggiore; Executive Producers: Simon Kilmurry, Geoff Gibson, Robert McLellan, Julie Parker Benello, Wendy Ettinger, Judith Helfand; Co- Executive Producers: Cynthia Lopez, Neal Flaherty; Vice President Production and Programming: Chris White; Producers: Nelson Dellamaggiore, Brian Schulz
• The World Before Her – Director/Producer: Nisha Pahuja; Executive Producers: Simon Kilmurry, Mike Chamberlain; Producers/Executive Producers: Ed Barreveld, Cornelia Principe; Co- Executive Producer: Cynthia Lopez; Vice President Production and Programming: Chris White
Outstanding Investigative Journalism—Long Form • Special Flight – Director/Producer: Fernand Melgar; Executive Producer: Simon Kilmurry; Co- Executive Producer: Cynthia Lopez; Producer: Elise Shubs; Vice President of Production and Programming: Chris White
Outstanding Informational Programming—Long-Form • Reportero – Director/Producer: Bernardo Ruiz; Executive Producer: Simon Kilmurry; Co- Executive Producer: Cynthia Lopez; Vice President of Production and Programming: Chris White; Co-Producer: Patricia Benabe
Outstanding Interview • 56 Up – Director/Producer: Michael Apted; Executive Producer: Simon Kilmurry; Co-Executive Producer: Cynthia Lopez; Producer: Claire Lewis; Vice President of Production and Programming: Chris White
Outstanding Arts and Culture Programming • Herman’s House – Director/Producer: Angad Singh Bhalla; Executive Producers: Simon Kilmurry, Ed Barreveld, Loring McAlpin; Co-Executive Producer: Cynthia Lopez; Producer: Lisa Valencia- Svensson; Vice President of Production and Programming: Chris White
The full list of nominees for the 35th Annual News and Documentary Emmy® Awards is available at www.emmyonline.tv.
Produced by American Documentary, Inc. and now in its 27th season on PBS, the award-winning POV is the longest- running showcase on American television to feature the work of today’s best independent documentary filmmakers. POV has brought more than 365 acclaimed documentaries to millions nationwide. POV films have won every major film and broadcasting award, including 32 Emmys, 17 George Foster Peabody Awards, 12 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards, three Academy Awards® and the Prix Italia. Since 1988, POV has pioneered the art of presentation and outreach using independent nonfiction media to build new communities in conversation about today’s most pressing social issues. Visit www.pbs.org/pov.
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POV Digital (www.pbs.org/pov/) Since 1994, POV Digital has driven new storytelling initiatives and interactive production for POV. The department created PBS’s first program website and its first web-based documentary (POV’s Borders) and has won major awards, including a Webby Award (and six nominations) and an Online News Association Award. POV Digital continues to explore the future of independent nonfiction media through its digital productions and the POV Hackathon lab, where media makers and technologists collaborate to reinvent storytelling forms. @povdocs on Twitter.
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Major funding for POV is provided by PBS, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Bertha Foundation, Wyncote Foundation, The Educational Foundation of America, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee, and public television viewers. POV is presented by a consortium of public television stations, including KQED San Francisco, WGBH Boston and THIRTEEN in association with WNET.ORG.
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