“POV Shorts,” the PBS series focused on independent short-form documentaries, is moving homes. For Season 9, “POV Shorts” will run its films on Time Studios‘ YouTube page.
\n\nThe season, which launches Nov. 17, will kick off with “Bloodlines, Mississippi” from director Crystal Kayiza and “The Boys and the Bees” from director Arielle Knight.
\n\nThose two films will also air on PBS, but after that, this season of “POV Shorts” will be exclusive to Time Studios. That includes Aurora Brachman and LaTajh Simmons-Weaver’s “Hold Me Close,” Brit Fryer and Lydia Cornett’s “Tessitura,” Serville Poblete’s “In the Morning Sun,” Arjun Fischer’s “Artificial Love,” Mars Verrone’s “Buckskin,” Victor Tadashi Suárez and Livia Albeck-Ripka’s “Still Standing,” Arshia Shakiba’s “Who Loves the Sun” and Nathan Truesdell’s “A Derailment.”
\n\nSix of the season’s films have qualified for Oscars consideration in the documentary short film category: “Bloodlines, Mississippi,” “The Boys and the Bees,” “A Derailment,” “Buckskin,” “In the Morning Sun” and “Still Standing.”
\n\n“POV Shorts” and Time Studios previously collaborated on the Season 6 film “Sol in the Garden,” from Débora Souza Silva and Emily Cohen Ibañez.
\n\n“Nine seasons in, POV Shorts has shown that a twenty-minute film can change how someone sees a problem they thought…
Original source: https://variety.com/v/tv/