“Pov,” the longest-running series for independent documentaries on television, has unveiled the majority of its slate for the series’ 35th season, which launches on July 11 with Yung Chang’s “Wuhan Wuhan.”
Neighborhood gentrification on Chicago’s south side, land defenders in the Philippines and the 2018 Zimbabwean general election are among the many topics that will be examined by the 14 feature docus in the upcoming season, which will run through Jan. 16.
PBS has revealed 13 of the upcoming season’s “Pov” films beyond “Wuhan Wuhan,” an observational documentary about the first wave of the Covid-19 lockdown, with one more entry slated to be unveiled in June.
While celebrity driven docs are all the rage with streaming services, “Pov” will stay true to its roots and program social issues films that delve into topics including environmental justice immigration and systemic inequity.
“PBS is proud that after 35 years, “Pov” continues to deliver artistically unique,...
Neighborhood gentrification on Chicago’s south side, land defenders in the Philippines and the 2018 Zimbabwean general election are among the many topics that will be examined by the 14 feature docus in the upcoming season, which will run through Jan. 16.
PBS has revealed 13 of the upcoming season’s “Pov” films beyond “Wuhan Wuhan,” an observational documentary about the first wave of the Covid-19 lockdown, with one more entry slated to be unveiled in June.
While celebrity driven docs are all the rage with streaming services, “Pov” will stay true to its roots and program social issues films that delve into topics including environmental justice immigration and systemic inequity.
“PBS is proud that after 35 years, “Pov” continues to deliver artistically unique,...
- 5/11/2022
- by Addie Morfoot
- Variety Film + TV
Since the first Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan, the impulse was clear: someone had to record it all. Multiple people, it turns out, wanted to helm that “someone.” Trio Hao Wu, Weixi Chen, and Anonymous took TIFF by storm last year with “76 Days,” unleashing raw footage from Wuhan to the world. Nanfu Wang, on the other hand, took a more introspective approach with her Sundance-premiering documentary “In the Same Breath.” In her essay film, she meditates upon the conflicting identity politics of a Chinese-American in these polarized times. Now, seasoned Chinese Canadian director Yung Chang enters the conversation with “Wuhan Wuhan.” Like his peers, he too returns to footage directly imported from Wuhan. Unlike the others, however, the virus is not the be-all end-all; instead, he chooses the high road, pondering upon life beyond the pandemic.
“Wuhan Wuhan” rotates between a cast of five: a factory worker-turned-volunteer cabby; a mother...
“Wuhan Wuhan” rotates between a cast of five: a factory worker-turned-volunteer cabby; a mother...
- 5/7/2021
- by Grace Han
- AsianMoviePulse
Since Covid-19 has touched every corner of the globe, Wuhan, China almost feels like a distant memory. Yung Chang’s latest documentary “Wuhan Wuhan” serves as a stark reminder of the virus’s geographical origins at the peak of its crisis. The film revolves around five characters: a young couple preparing for birth; a mother and son trapped in Covid bureaucracy; a kind psychologist in a temporary hospital; an ER doctor-nurse duo in Wuhan’s most serious ICU. Each story refreshes the viewer with the panic — yet compassion — of the pandemic’s earliest days, revealing intimate glimpses into their everyday lives.
Seeing Yung Chang’s film at the tail-end of the pandemic feels timely. It feels timely in another sense, as well: much in the spirit of Covid-19, Toronto-based Yung Chang never appeared on-set. Instead, he directed-edited the entire film remotely. Over Zoom, Chang shares with us some of the...
Seeing Yung Chang’s film at the tail-end of the pandemic feels timely. It feels timely in another sense, as well: much in the spirit of Covid-19, Toronto-based Yung Chang never appeared on-set. Instead, he directed-edited the entire film remotely. Over Zoom, Chang shares with us some of the...
- 5/7/2021
- by Grace Han
- AsianMoviePulse
Yung Chang's quietly effective documentary Wuhan Wuhan is both a time travelling machine and an empathy machine. Straddling the cinematic line between Frederick Wiseman and Robert Altman, high praise that is both obvious and merited, Chang's film takes us back to February 2020, when Wuhan was just getting the initial wave of Covid-19, the worlds first battle with the novel coronavirus, under some semblance of control. The city is locked down and unsettlingly quiet, you are now, no doubt, familiar with images of urban landscapes with little traffic or people. The 11-million citizen city has 5 hospitals, as well as several hastily converted/erected field quarantine zones. All remain a whirr of activity in stark contrast to the rest of Wuhan. Beeping monitor machines give these places the...
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- 5/1/2021
- Screen Anarchy
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