Press Release
May 27 2025
POV’s 38th Season Presents Honest, Human Stories of Identity, Kinship and Collective Hope Season Begins Monday, June 23, 2025
Overview
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Brooklyn, N.Y. — May 27, 2025 — American Documentary’s multi-award-winning POV— America’s longest-running nonfiction series— launches its 38th season with a compelling slate of 15 feature-length documentaries. These films, created by visionary filmmakers, offer profound insights into pressing social issues.
As POV embarks on its upcoming season, it remains deeply committed to its “point of view” roots, presenting powerful and timely stories that explore political engagement, identity, economic inequality, intergenerational relationships, and solidarity. This season continues the series’ legacy of providing a vital public media platform for bold documentary storytelling, amplifying the work of often underrepresented, unforgettable protagonists and filmmakers from various backgrounds.
“Each season, it’s important that our viewers see non-fiction films as an entertainment art form offering unique viewpoints,” said Erika Dilday, Executive Director, American Documentary and Executive Producer, POV, and America ReFramed. “Stories featured in this remarkable 38th season are about people who are doing something about inequities in their communities and inspiring hope. Documentaries stand as testaments to the power of film in illuminating the human experience and driving change. American Documentary serves as a vital tool to encourage authentic storytelling and genuine conversation about issues raised within these films.”
This season, POV shines a light on socio-political movements and the activists driving them. Among the highly anticipated films is POV’s latest acquisition, Igualada: Refusing to Know Your Place, directed by Juan Mejía Botero, which made its world premiere at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival and was included on the IDA 2024 Documentary Awards shortlist for “Best Feature Documentary.” Produced by Botero, Juan E. Yepes, Daniela Alatorre Benard, and Sonia Serna Botero, the film documents Black Colombian rural activist Francia Márquez’s historic presidential bid.
The season’s highly praised opener, UNION, directed by Brett Story and Stephen Maing, and produced by Samantha Curley (p.g.a), Mars Verrone (p.g.a), Martin DiCicco, Stephen Maing and Brett Story follows a group of Amazon workers as they embark on a unionization campaign against one of the world’s largest corporations. Directors Kelly Anderson, Jay Arthur Sterrenberg, and producer Brenda Avila-Hanna’s Emergent City capture activists navigating the challenges of a newly established “innovation district” in a divided Brooklyn community. In Porcelain War, directors Brendan Bellomo, Slava Leontyev, and producers Aniela Sidorska, Paula DuPré Pesmen, Camilla Mazzaferro, and Olivia Ahnemann present a poignant look at three artists who defiantly create beauty amidst the destruction of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The season also delves into stories of persistence and transformation worldwide. In Made in Ethiopia, co-directed by Xinyan Yu and Max Duncan and produced by Yu, Duncan, and Tamara Dawit, a massive Chinese factory complex attempts a high-stakes expansion in rural Ethiopia, testing three women’s faith in industrialization to the limit. In The Age of Water, a Latino Public Broadcasting co-production and co-presentation, directors Alfredo Alcántara and Isabel Alcántara Atalaya, and producers Michèle Stephenson, Joe Brewster, and Lindsay Perna chronicle a rural Mexican community’s quest for answers after discovering alarming truths about their water supply. The Bitter Pill, directed by Clay Tweel and produced by Tim Grant, Shannon E. Riggs, and Mary Rohlich, tells the story of a small-town attorney taking on pharmaceutical giants after opioids devastate his community. Meanwhile, director Alina Simone and producer Kirstine Barfod’s Black Snow is an environmental thriller that sheds new light on the human cost of coal.
Multigenerational family narratives take center stage in this season as well. Norwegian director Silje Evensmo Jacobsen and producer Mari Bakke Riise’s A New Kind of Wilderness offers a soulful portrait of a family embracing an off-the-grid life in Norway’s wilderness. Director Laurie Townshend's feature debut, A Mother Apart, produced by Alison Duke, Ngardy Conteh George, and Justine Pimlott,and co-presented with Black Public Media (BPM), follows poet and activist Staceyann Chin on her journey of healing, forgiveness, and motherhood.
Season 38 also features inspiring stories of individuals determined to revamp their lifestyles. Nesa Azimi’s cinematic first feature, DRIVER, produced by Azimi, Nicolas Borel, and Ines Hofmann Kanna, follows Desiree Wood as she takes a second lease on life as a long-haul trucker and fights for a life on the road alongside an irreverent group of women drivers. Director Jota Mun and producers Mun, Zoe Sua Cho and Barb Lee’s Between Goodbyes follows a queer Korean adoptee as she reconnects with her original mother in Seoul, confronting long-held regrets and cultural misunderstandings with tenderness, humor, and resilience. In honor of Disability Awareness Month, The Ride Ahead follows 21-year-old Samuel Habib, a disabled young man determined to move out, start a career, and find love while seeking guidance from America’s most rebellious disability activists. It is co-directed by Samuel Habib and Dan Habib and produced by Dan Habib.
In addition to this season’s premieres, POV will air an encore presentation of Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision, directed by Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Frieda Lee Mock and produced by Mock and Terry Sanders. The acclaimed documentary, co-presented with the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM), captures the remarkable story of Maya Lin, a young undergraduate architecture student at Yale who gained national recognition in 1981, after winning a competition to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Her minimalist yet moving design sparked intense controversy, as the war had ended just eight years earlier and remained a divisive subject. Amid public debate and personal attacks, Lin held her ground with unwavering resolve and grace. Her work continues to shape the landscape of modern architecture, making Lin one of the most influential artist-architects of our time.
POV episodes premiere Monday nights at 10pm (check local listings) and will be available for streaming concurrent with broadcast on all station-branded PBS platforms, including PBS.org and the PBS App, available on iOS, Android, Roku streaming devices, Apple TV, Android TV, Amazon Fire TV, Samsung Smart TV, Chromecast and VIZIO. For more information about PBS Passport, visit the PBS Passport FAQ website.
American Documentary also continues to build upon its partnership, started last year, with DCTV and its Firehouse Cinema. Hosting branded screenings, panel discussions, and networking events to connect with the local non-fiction community, AmDoc and DCTV aim to amplify awareness of the films, themes, and filmmakers of POV’s 38th season and the upcoming 8th season slate of POV Shorts (the latter to be announced later this year).
Fresh off of receiving seven 2025 News & Documentary Emmy® nominations across various categories, POV is one of the most highly-acclaimed documentary series in broadcast and streaming media. In 2024, Eat Your Catfish (POV Season 37) won a News & Documentary Emmy® Award for “Outstanding Social Issue Documentary”. In 2023, POV received eight News & Documentary Emmy® nominations and won the “Outstanding Business & Economic Documentary” for The Last Out (POV Season 36). While We Watched (POV Season 36) won the Peabody Award in the Documentary category, marking the eleventh year in a row a POV film has been nominated for a Peabody and its 28th award win. In addition, Let the Little Light Shine (POV Season 35) received a Peabody nomination, and the filmsunseen and the shortsBetween Earth & Sky and Freshwater (POV Shorts Season 6) made theshortlists for the 38th IDA Documentary Awards
In its landmark 35th anniversary season (2022), POV took home the IDA Documentary Award for “Best Curated Series;” garnered News & Documentary Emmy® nominations for the filmThe Neutral Ground (POV Season 34), the short A Broken House (POV Shorts Season 4), and the POV Spark project The Changing Same: American Pilgrimage, Episode 1. Mayor (POV Season 34) won the News & Documentary Emmy® Award for “Outstanding Politics and Government Documentary” and was awarded a Peabody. Águilas (POV Shorts Season 4) and A Broken House made the shortlist in the Documentary Short Subject category for the 94th Academy Awards®.
In 2021, the series received seven News & Documentary Emmy® nominations and won “Best Documentary” for Advocate (POV Season 33). This marked the second year in a row that a POV film took home that honor. POV earned the 2020 “Best Documentary” award for The Silence of Others (POV Season 32). POV won two Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Awards for Through the Night (POV Season 33) and Softie (POV Season 33). In addition to its Academy Award® nomination for Best Documentary Feature, The Mole Agent (POV Season 33) was also shortlisted for Best International Feature.
UNION chronicles an unlikely group of warehouse workers as they launch a grassroots union campaign at an Amazon fulfillment center in Staten Island, New York. The odds are stacked against them, as they find themselves up against a tech industry giant with unlimited resources, without major support from national unions or politicians, and while navigating internal divisions within their own ranks. Trailer
Participants/Cast: Christian Smalls, Angelika Maldonado, Connor Spence, Derrick Palmer, Jason Anthony, Gerald Bryson, Jordan Flowers, Natalie Monarrez, Madeline Wesley
Country: USA l Year: 2024 l Language: English
World Premiere, Winner, U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for the Art of Change -
2024 Sundance Film Festival
Winner, Best Canadian Pitch Prize - 2022 Hot Docs Pitch Forum
Winner, Production - 2025 Cinema Eye Honors
Shortlist - Best Documentary Feature, Academy Award® (2025)
Igualada: Refusing to Know Your Place
Premiere: July 7, 2025
Director: Juan Mejía Botero
Producers: Juan Mejía Botero, Juan E. Yepes, Daniela Alatorre Benard, Sonia Serna Botero
In Colombia's most consequential election, Black activist Francia Márquez rose from rural organizer to presidential candidate, challenging centuries of racial and social exclusion. Documenting fifteen years, this intimate portrait captures how Márquez transforms a grassroots movement into a powerful force for change, inspiring millions to reimagine their nation's future and their place within it. Trailer
Participants/Cast: Francia Márquez
Countries: Colombia, United States, Mexico I Year: 2024 I Languages: Spanish with English
World Premiere, 2024 Sundance Film Festival
2024 Human Rights Film Festival Berlin
Winner, Jury Award - 2024 Cine Las Americas International Film Festival
Shortlist - 2024 IDA Documentary Awards
Best Systemic Change Documentary - 2025 SIMA Award for Nominated One World Media Awards
Premiere: July 14, 2025
Directors: Xinyan Yu, Max Duncan
Producers: Xinyan Yu, Max Duncan,
Tamara Dawit
As Ethiopia's largest Chinese-run industrial park attempts an ambitious expansion, three women find themselves at the heart of a changing nation. A determined Chinese director pushes for 30,000 new jobs, while a local farmer and factory worker face the promise and painful realities of rapid industrialization. Their interwoven stories reveal the complex human dimensions of global development. Trailer
Participants/Cast: Betelihem "Beti" Ashenafi, Motto Ma (Ma Futao), Workinesh Chala
Countries: United States, Denmark, UK, Canada, South Korea I Year: 2024 I Languages: Mandarin, Amharic, English, Oromifa
World Premiere, Special Jury Mention - 2024 Tribeca Film Festival
Official Selection, 2024 Sheffield DocFest
Winner, Best International Feature - 2024 Planet In Focus International Film Festival
2025 SIMA Award Finalist
Premiere: July 21, 2025 - Airing in Honor of Disability Awareness Day (9/21)
Co-directors: Samuel Habib, Dan Habib
Producer: Dan Habib
Co-Producer: Erica Lupinacci
Turning 21, Samuel Habib wants to date, leave home, go to college. Yet every rite of passage is fraught with challenges. Seizures and uncontrollable movements. Friends' homes are inaccessible to his wheelchair. Degrading ableist encounters. “No one tells you how to be an adult,” he says, “let alone an adult with a disability.” Can a community of disability activists help him follow his dreams? Trailer
Participants/Cast: Samuel Habib with Lydia X.Z. Brown, Judy Heumann, Keith Jones, Andrew Peterson, Ali Stroker, Bob Williams, Maysoon Zayid
Country: USA I Year: 2024 I Language: English
World Premiere, 2024 Hot Docs
Nominee, Youth Jury Award - 2024 Sheffield DocFest
Winner, Special Jury Prize - 2024 Seattle International Film Festival
Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision
Premiere: July 22, 2025 - Encore Presentation
Director: Freida Lee Mock
Producers: Freida Lee Mock, Terry Sanders
Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision is the Academy Award®-winning documentary about sculptor and architect Maya Lin who, at age 21, designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. The film tells the gripping story behind the Vietnam Memorial and explores a decade of her creative work. Maya Lin's design of the Civil Rights Memorial, the Yale Women's Table, and the Juniata Peace Chapel – all projects Maya designed before turning 30 – reveal her ability to address major issues of our times through the healing power of art. Trailer
Participant: Maya Lin
Country: USA I Year: 1994 I Language: English
A Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) Co-Presentation
World Premiere, Beverly Hills, 1995 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Theater
Official Selection, 1995 Chicago International Film Festival
Official Selection, 1995 Hawaii International Film Festival
Premiere: August 18, 2025
Directors: Kelly Anderson, Jay Arthur Sterrenberg
Producers: Kelly Anderson, Brenda Ávila-Hanna
Residents of Sunset Park, Brooklyn face rising rents, a legacy of environmental racism and the loss of the industrial jobs that once sustained their community. When a global developer purchases a massive industrial complex on the waterfront and lays plans for an “innovation district,” a battle erupts over the future of the neighborhood and of New York City itself. Trailer
Country: USA l Year: 2024 l Languages: English, Spanish, Chinese
A Co-Production with ITVS
World Premiere, Spotlight Documentary - 2024 Tribeca Festival
Official Selection, 2024 DC/DOX Festival
Official Selection, 2025 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival
Premiere: August 25, 2025
Director: Silje Evensmo Jacobsen
Producer: Mari Bakke Riise
On a small farm in Norway, the Paynes lead a purposefully wild, free existence. They are self-sufficient, practice homeschooling, and foster a close family dynamic in harmony with nature. But when tragedy strikes, they must adapt to the demands of modern society. Filmmaker Silje Evensmo
Jacobsen captures an intimate portrait of love, life,
and growing up. Trailer
Participants/Cast: Nik, Freja, Falk, and Ulv Payne,
Ronja Breda Vatne
Country: Norway I Year: 2024 I Languages: Norwegian, English
World Premiere, Winner, Grand Jury Prize- 2024 Sundance Film Festival
Winner, Documentary Competition Award - 2024 Seattle International Film Festival
Winner, Best Documentary - 2024 Reykjavik Film Festival
DRIVER
Premiere: September 1, 2025
Director: Nesa Azimi
Producers: Nesa Azimi, Nicolas Borel, Ines Hofmann Kanna
After losing everything, Desiree Wood takes a second lease on life as a long-haul trucker and fights for a life on the road alongside an irreverent group of women drivers. Using an intimate and observational lens, DRIVER captures the experience of Desiree and her fellow truckers within a system that routinely promises and denies them the safety and autonomy they desire. Filmed over three years on the road, Desiree struggles to balance the demands of being a working truck driver with her ambitions as the head of a driver-led movement run from the cab of her truck, which is constantly at risk of being repossessed. In a rapidly changing labor landscape, Desiree and her sisterhood of truckers rally against the crushing forces of an industry indifferent to their survival.
Participants/Cast: Desiree Wood, Michelle Kitchin, Idella Hansen, Debbie ‘Dingo’ Desiderato, Jess Graham, Brita Nowak, Anne Balay, Michelle Scolari
Country: USA I Year: 2024 I Language: English
World Premiere, Documentary Feature Competition - 2024 Tribeca Festival
Official Selection - 2024 Camden International Film Festival
Winner Best First-Time Filmmaker Award - 2024 Newburyport Documentary Film Festival
The Age of Water
Premiere: September 8, 2025 - Airing in Honor of Environmental Awareness Month
Directors: Isabel Alcántara Atalaya, Alfredo Alcántara
Producers: Michèle Stephenson, Joe Brewster, Lindsay Perna
When three children die of leukemia in a rural Mexican community, two mothers partner with a hydrogeologist to investigate their water supply. The discovery of dangerous radioactivity leads to community backlash and government denial. As they uncover how industrial farming is tapping ancient, contaminated aquifers, their fight for justice shows the personal cost of exposing environmental threats.
Participants/Cast: Irelia Nely Baeza Trejo, Elia Zarazúa Rubio, Marcos Adrián Ortega Guerrero, Humberto Navarro de Alba, Jeni del Ángel Zarazua, Vanessa del Ángel Zarazua, Maria Luz Resendiz Briones, Doña Rosa Resendiz, César Arias de la Canal, Andrea Cerami, Miguel Ángel Mejía Hernandez, Violeta Rubio Medina
Countries: USA, Mexico I Year: 2024 I Languages: Spanish with English subtitles
A co-production and co-presentation with Latino Public Broadcasting
World Premiere, 2024 22nd Morelia International Film Festival (FICM)
Contribution to Society, Arts and Culture Award by San Jose Iturbide Government, Guanajuato, Mexico (10/14/24)
Black Snow
Premiere: September 15, 2025 - Airing in Honor of Environmental Awareness Month
Director: Alina Simone
Producers: Kirstine Barfod, Alina Simone
In a remote Siberian coal mining city, residents discover deadly gases seeping from an abandoned mine into their homes. Local journalist Natalia Zubkova begins investigating, but her viral reporting triggers an aggressive government cover-up. Facing mounting pressure from authorities, she risks everything to expose an environmental catastrophe that threatens her entire community. Trailer
Participant/Cast: Natalia Zubkova
Countries: Russia, Georgia I Year: 2024 I Languages: Russian with English subtitles
World Premiere, Winner Fact Award Best Investigative Documentary - 2024 CPH:DOX
Winner, Sustainable Future Award - Sydney International Film Festival,
Special Jury Mention - DOC NYC
Cinema Eye Spotlight Award
SIMA Documentary Jury Prize
Premiere: September 22, 2025 - Airing in Honor of Opioid Awareness Day (9/21)
Director: Clay Tweel
Producers: Tim Grant, Shannon E. Riggs, Mary Rohlich
With his hometown ravaged by the opioid epidemic, attorney Paul Farrell Jr. takes on pharmaceutical giants to secure funds for recovery efforts. When his innovative legal strategy catches national attention, the case transforms into America’s largest civil litigation. As stakes escalate, Farrell fights for justice—not just for his community, but for a nation in crisis.
Participants/Cast: Paul Farrell Jr, Mike Fuller, Amy Quezon
Country: USA I Year: 2024 I Language: English
World Premiere, 2024 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
Official Selection, 2024 DC/Dox Film Festival
Winner, Documentary Feature: Programmers Award - 2024 Virginia Film Festival
Porcelain War
Premiere: September 29, 2025
Directors: Brendan Bellomo, Slava Leontyev
Producers: Aniela Sidorska, Paula DuPré Pesmen, Camilla Mazzaferro, Olivia Ahnemann
Amidst the chaos and destruction of the brutal Russian invasion of Ukraine, three artists defiantly find inspiration and beauty as they defend their culture and their country. In a war waged by professional soldiers against ordinary civilians, Slava Leontyev, Anya Stasenko, and Andrey Stefanov choose to stay behind, armed with their art, their cameras, and, for the first time in their lives, their guns. Despite daily shelling, Anya finds resistance and purpose in her art, Andrey takes the dangerous journey to get his young family to safety abroad, and Slava becomes a weapons instructor for ordinary people who have become unlikely soldiers. As the war intensifies, Andrey picks up his camera to film their story, and on tiny porcelain figurines, Anya and Slava capture their idyllic past, uncertain present, and hope for the future. Trailer
Participants/Cast: Slava Leontyev, Anya Stasenko, Andrey Stefanov, Frodo the Dog
Country: Ukraine I Year: 2024 I Languages: Ukrainian, Russian, English
World Premiere, Winner, Grand Jury Prize U.S. Documentary - 2024 Sundance Film Festival
Nominee, Best Documentary Feature - 2025 Academy Award®
Winner, Best Documentary - D.G.A. 2025
Winner, Best Documentary - duPont-Columbia Award 2025
Premiere: October 6, 2025
Director: Laurie Townshend
Producers: Alison Duke, Ngardy Conteh George, Justine Pimlott
In Laurie Townshend’s directorial feature debut, A Mother Apart, Staceyann Chin embodies multiple complex identities—poet, activist, lesbian, Jamaican American, mother. But the most complicated of all is “daughter.” Abandoned by her mother as a child, Staceyann has been seeking her out for decades, travelling the globe in a one-sided attempt to forge a meaningful bond with the woman who brought her into the world. And now, as the sole parent of nine-year-old Zuri, she wrestles with an all-consuming dilemma: how to mother a daughter when your own mother is missing in action. Trailer
Participants/Cast: Staceyann Chin, Zuri Chin
Country: Canada l Year: 2024 l Languages: English, German
A Black Public Media Co-Presentation
World Premiere - 2024 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival
Winner, Portrait Documentary Competition - 2025 Cleveland Film Festival
Official Selection, 2024 DOC NYC
Between Goodbyes
Premiere: December 8, 2025
Director: Jota Mun
Producers: Zoe Sua Cho, Barb Lee, Jota Mun
Okgyun never fit the stereotype of international adoption; she was married when her fourth child, Mieke, was adopted to the Netherlands. Now, years into a tumultuous reunion, Mieke visits her family in Seoul. Uncovering backstories from both a birth family and their daughter,Between Goodbyes challenges conventional narratives about adoption, reunion, and queer kinship. Trailer
Participants/Cast: Okgyun Kang, Mieke Murkes, Kwangho Kim, Mijin Kim, Mikyung Kim, Ruth Chon, Marit Bosman
Countries: South Korea, USA I Year: 2024 I Languages: Korean, English, Dutch
World Premiere, Winner Emerging Filmmaker Award (Jota Mun) - 2024 DMZ International Film Festival
Winner, Special Jury Award for Feature Documentary - 2024 Santa Fe International Film Festival
Official Selection, 2024 DOC NYC
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Produced by American Documentary, POV is the longest-running independent documentary showcase on American television. Since 1988, POV has presented films on PBS that capture the full spectrum of the human experience, with a long commitment to centering women and people of color in front of, and behind, the camera. The series is known for introducing generations of viewers to groundbreaking works like Tongues Untied (1989), Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1992), Rabbit in the Room (1999), Of Civil Wrongs & Rights: The Fred Korematsu Story (2001), Made in L.A. (2007), American Promise (2013), Not Going Quietly (2021), While We Watched (2022), A House Made of Splinters (2022), The Last Out (2023) and the mini-series And She Could be Next (2020). Throughout its history POV has featured the work of award-winning, innovative filmmakers including Jonathan Demme, Laura Poitras, Nanfu Wang, Frederick Wiseman, Emiko Omori, Janus Metz Pedersen and Ava DuVernay. In 2018, POV Shorts launched as one of the first PBS series dedicated to bold and timely short-form documentaries. In 2024, Indiewire named seven POV films in its roundup of “The 50 Best Documentaries of the 21st Century”: Faya Dayi (2021), The Mole Agent (2020), Minding The Gap (2018), Cameraperson (2016), The Look of Silence (2015), The Act of Killing (2013) and After Tiller (2013). All POV programs are available for streaming concurrent with broadcast on all station-branded PBS platforms, including PBS.org and the PBS App, available on iOS, Android, Roku streaming devices, Apple TV, Android TV, Amazon Fire TV, Samsung Smart TV, Chromecast and VIZIO. For more information about PBS Passport, visit the PBS Passport FAQ website.
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