P.O.V. celebrates its 15th Anniversary beginning June 2002. Since 1988 P.O.V. has worked to bring the best of independent point-of-view documentaries to a national audience. The first series on television to feature the work of America's most innovative documentary filmmakers, P.O.V. has gone on to pioneer the art of presentation and outreach using independent media to build new communities in conversation about today's most pressing social issues.
PRODUCTION PARTNERS
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private, nonprofit corporation created by Congress in 1967develops
educational public radio, television and online services for the American people.
The Corporation is the industry's largest single source of funds for national
public television and radio program development and production. CPB, a grant
making organization, funds more than 1,000 public radio and television stations.
Unique in American public television, the Independent Television Service (ITVS) was established by Congress to fund and present programs that "involve creative risks and address the needs of underserved audiences, especially children and minorities," while granting artistic control to independent producers. ITVS has funded more than 350 programs for public television since its inception in 1991.
The National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC) is a nonprofit media service organization devoted to the production, distribution, promotion and preservation of diverse films and videos about African Americans and the African diaspora experiences. Founded in 1979, NBPC is one of five ethnic minority Consortia funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB).
BOOKS ABOUT THE MURDER
A Death in Texas by Dina Temple-Raston; Owl Books, 352
pages.
Hate Crime: The Story of a Dragging in Jasper, Texas by
Joyce King; Pantheon Books, 240 pages.
