This year, P.O.V. has the distinction of being the second most-nominated series on television after CBS News' 60 Minutes. For one of the few national public television series totally devoted to showcasing independent documentaries, that's sensational. P.O.V. has received a record-setting ten nominations for its 21st season from the 30th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards. Nominations were announced this past Tuesday by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for a presentation on Monday, September 21st at Lincoln Center where Emmys will be presented in thirty-three categories. Executive director of P.O.V., Simon Kilmurry, says that, "It's thrilling and a great honor to see so many P.O.V. films being recognized by the Academy. To receive ten nominations illustrates the outstanding quality of contemporary documentary filmmaking, and P.O.V. is very proud to have brought these compelling stories to audiences nationwide on PBS."
Here are the nominees and the categories for which they were nominated: Cory Kelley's Ars Magna for New Approaches to News & Documentary Programming: Arts, Lifestyle & Culture; Kieran Fitzgerald's The Ballad of Esequiel Hernández for Outstanding Investigative Journalism--Long Form; Andrzej Fidyk's Belarusian Waltz for Outstanding Arts & Culture Programming; Joanna Rudnick's In the Family for Outstanding Informational Programming--Long Form; James Moll's Inheritance for both Best Documentary and Outstanding Interview (pictured above at their first face-to-face encounter, Moll's main subjects, Monika Hertwig [right], the daughter of Nazi mass murderer Amon Goeth, and Helen Jonas, one of Goeth's household slaves when she was a young girl); Elizabeth Farnsworth and Patricio Lanfranco's The Judge and the General for Outstanding Historical Programming--Long Form; Catherine Ryan and Gary Weimberg's Soldiers of Conscience for Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Editing (Gary Weimberg and Josh Peterson); Katrina Browne, Alla Kovgan, Jude Ray, Elizabeth Delude-Dix and Juanita Brown for Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North for Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Research; and, Yung Chang's Up the Yangtze for Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Cinematography (Wang Shi Qing). To watch trailers of all the nominated films, click here.
Another outstanding PBS series, Independent Lens, has received Emmy nominations for Chicago 10 directed by Brett Morgen for Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Graphic Design & Art Direction, and Hard Road Home directed by Macky Alston for Outstanding Informational Progamming--Long Form. Congratulations to all the nominees.
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