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Tuesday, June 21, 2005

POV Starts This Week!

Posted by on June 21 at 10:21 AM

I think the POV series on PBS kick-started my passion for weird little documentaries. Actually, I think the bizarre and wonderful film Hybrid, which I saw at SIFF circa 2001 (?), kick-started my passion, and then when POV picked it up for broadcast, I fell in love. POV is a summer series, with a new documentary every week, and it starts this week with The Education of Shelby Knox. In most places, the series launches tonight at 10 pm, but check your listings—the local Seattle affiliate, KCTS, has scheduled it for Thursday, also at 10. I haven’t seen the movie, but it appears to be a straightforward doc about a Baptist teenager from Lubbock, Texas, who becomes a hardcore advocate for comprehensive sex education in Texas high schools. Awesome. The series continues with a bunch of stuff that hasn’t yet been seen in Seattle, plus commercial-free broadcasts of movies you may have missed when they opened theatrically.