Attention female filmmakers, documentarians, and content creators! American Documentary Inc., the producer of the PBS series “POV,” has teamed up with The New York Times for a new documentary project with the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
According to Shadow and Act, the “Embedded Mediamaker” project “will allow a documentary filmmaker, creator, or creative technologist rooted in documentary storytelling to work for 20 weeks at The New York Times alongside some of its most creative journalists. The mediamaker will work with The Times and POV to create new forms of documentary and interactive content with a team of Times writers, editors and visual storytellers involved in Race/Related, a newsletter and reporting project exploring race as it is lived today.”
“We are thrilled to collaborate with POV on what will certainly be a transformative moment for digital journalism,” said Nancy Gauss, Executive Director of Video at The New York Times. “The filmmaker will work alongside The Times’s most creative journalists to experiment with innovative storytelling tools to explore and report on race, one of the biggest issues in the country right now.”
“The MacArthur Foundation is actively encouraging collaborations at the intersection of documentary storytelling techniques and digital journalism,” said Kathy Im, Director of the Journalism and Media program at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. “‘POV’ is among the handful of documentary organizations providing artistic and technical leadership to bridge these two fields, developing innovative ways to inform and engage American audiences about contemporary social and civic issues.”
They are currently seeking pitches for projects involving race and ethnicity. Applications are due by Monday, July 25, 2016 at 5 pm ET. More information and complete application instructions are available at pov.org/jobs.