Q&A with participating filmmakers moderated by Opal H. Bennett
DCTV is thrilled to kick off and celebrate POV Shorts Season 5 with special sneak peek previews of select films including those listed below, followed by a Q&A and reception.
POV Shorts, the award-winning non-fiction shorts film series curated by POV, celebrates its fifth year anniversary with 11 new bold and dynamic documentaries. The landmark season highlights art as activism, freedom of expression, Americans with disabilities, intergenerational stories, and connectedness, by independent storytellers.
SHUT UP AND PAINT
Dir: Titus Kaphar, Alex Mallis | Prod: Chloe Gbai | USA | 2022 | 24 min
Painter Titus Kaphar looks to film as a medium in the face of an insatiable art market seeking to silence his activism.
CALL ME ANYTIME, I'M NOT LEAVING THE HOUSE
Dir/Prod: Sanjna Selva | Prod: Judith Helfand, Ed Robbins | USA | 2022 | 11 min
Two Ukrainian sisters – one recently emigrated to Brooklyn, the other in war-besieged Odessa – long to be reunited and reminisce about their homeland.
HAPPINESS IS £4MILLION
Dirs: Weixi Chen, Kai Wei | Prod: Hao Wu | China/USA | 2022 | 24 min
An idealistic, young journalist in Beijing profiles China's biggest real estate speculator. Their divergent life experiences and clashing values challenge the journalist’s worldview, revealing deep generational and societal changes happening in the country. A co-release with The New York Times Op-Docs.
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