For Season 9, “POV Shorts” will run its films on Time Studios‘ YouTube page. The 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. Those 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.” Six 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.” “POV Shorts” and Time Studios previously collaborated on the Season 6 film “Sol in the Garden,” from Débora Souza Silva and Emily Cohen Ibañez. Bennett, executive producer, POV Shorts and senior producer, POV, in a statement. Time Studios also recently joined as distribution partner for the Co-Production Fund from American Documentary/POV Shorts and Chicken & Egg Films.
We’re thrilled to collaborate on Season 9 and share these remarkable films across our platforms.” Here’s a first look at “Bloodlines, Mississippi,” produced by Harri Grace, Paul King and created in collaboration with Nobel Prize Outreach, which “follows Dr. Foluso Fakorede and his team at Cardiovascular Solutions of Central Mississippi as they work to prevent avoidable amputations. Set in the Mississippi Delta, Kayiza’s film looks at community-centered healthcare as a response to racial disparities and the barriers patients face in accessing treatment within a system shaped by historic inequality.” And here’s a first look at “The Boys and the Bees,” produced by Knight and Sean Weiner.
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