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Filmmaker Rebekah Henderson on the Civic Responsibility of 'Her Girls' in Colorado’s Local Elections
"Running with My Girls" filmmaker Rebekah Henderson shares how she set out to follow five women who wanted to change things in Denver and how it affected her perspective of local politics.
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Your Vote: New Documentary on Securing Elections and a New Season of Storytelling
This month, we continue to focus our attention on the state of the government with a new film – No Time to Fail – offering a rare inside look at the process to election day. Stories from the Stage returns for season 7 with two special episodes produced in partnership with Arizona PBS, Nebraska Public Media and Vision Maker Media. Plus, Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations continue and watch a special digital feature in commemoration of Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
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WORLD Captures 4 Emmy® Nominations and a NETA Win During 2023 Awards Season
This year, WORLD has been nominated for four Emmy® Awards and have won a NETA Public Media Award! We’re excited to lift these films up and continue our mission of telling under-told and underrepresented stories.
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Stories from the Stage to Premiere Season 7 on WORLD with New Slate of Storytellers
Stories from the Stage premieres its seventh season on Monday, October 16, featuring new special episodes taped in Arizona and Nebraska.
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Minnesota's Alt-Meat Revolution: Demand for Plant-Based Protein Offers Promise for More Diverse Landscape
One of the leading producers of plant protein, PURIS, opened a large processing facility outside of Dawson, Minnesota in October 2021 to extract protein from yellow peas. Yet corn and soybeans dominate the landscape around the facility to this day. Why aren't we seeing more change in the Midwest? Growers explain the challenges in latest segment of Minnesota's Alt-Meat Revolution.
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WORLD Celebrates HBCU Week with Stories from Howard, North Carolina A&T and Beyond
As institutions and organizations across the country recognize the historical and cultural significance of HBUCs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) during nationally-recognized HBCU Week programs, WORLD presents Maryland Public Television (MPT)’s HBCU Week programming initiative with films following the athletics, music and legacies of HBCUs.
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September Films on WORLD: Starting the School Year with HBCU Week, Hispanic + Latinx Stories and Your Vote
This September, WORLD observes HBCU Week, Hispanic Heritage Month and steps into Election 2024 with the first of three new feature films that take a look at American democracy at the local level: Running with My Girls.
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WORLD Welcomes Georgiana Lee as Project Manager for Acquisitions and Distribution
Georgiana "George" Lee has joined WORLD as Project Manager for Acquisitions and Distribution. Lee will guide WORLD’s editorial team, serve as liaison to content partners and creators, and guide grant writing and compliance throughout the production lifecycle.
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From Surf and Land to New York Fashion Week: New Films from Pacific Heartbeat
From Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia to Hawai'i, Oceania and beyond, many regions, people and cultures make up the Pacific Islands. Through rich and artistically-told stories about these Indigenous people and places, Pacific Heartbeat centers the beauty and diversity of the Pacific Islands. Four new films premiering in August present contemporary stories from Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander women.
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The WORLD Beyond Our Own Backyards: Documentaries to Watch in August
As the summer winds to a close, slow down this August with WORLD films that cast a light on often-overlooked communities and issues here at home and around the globe, from the return of Pacific Heartbeat with stories exploring fashion, surfing, agriculture and more in the Pacific Islands to an encore presentation of Afghanistan: The Wounded Land marking the second anniversary of the U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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