{"id":21745,"date":"2020-06-22T03:35:48","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T07:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/pov\/watch\/povshortcuts\/"},"modified":"2022-06-14T15:35:46","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T19:35:46","slug":"povshortcuts","status":"publish","type":"film","link":"https:\/\/pov-staging.console.pbs.org\/pov\/films\/povshortcuts\/","title":{"rendered":"POV Short Cuts (2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Short is sweet as POV presents brief documentary encounters &mdash; including an Academy Award nominee, a Student Academy Award winner and the return of StoryCorps: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/pov\/barber\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement<\/strong><\/a> &mdash; James Armstrong, whose Alabama barbershop has been a hub for haircuts and civil rights for 50 years, celebrates the election of the first black president in this Academy Award-nominated short.<em>An Official Selection of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. Produced in association with American Documentary | POV. A co-presentation with the National Black Programming Consortia.<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/pov\/sinpais\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Sin Pa&iacute;s (Without Country)<\/strong><\/a> &mdash; Winner of a 2011 Student Academy Award, <strong>Sin Pais<\/strong> explores one family&#8217;s complex and emotional journey involving deportation. <em>A co-presentation with Latino Public Broadcasting<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/pov\/storycorps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>StoryCorps<\/strong><\/a> &mdash; The renowned oral-history project StoryCorps brings intimate conversations among friends and families to life in touching, often hilarious animated shorts that are sure to strike a chord in all of us.<em>Funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting<\/em>. <strong>Eyes on the Stars<\/strong> &mdash; Carl McNair tells the story of his brother Ronald, an African-American kid in the 1950s who set his sights on the stars. <strong>Facundo the Great<\/strong> &mdash; Ram&ograve;n &#8220;Chunky&#8221; Sanchez recounts how the new kid at school became a hero when his teachers could not find a way to anglicize his name. <strong>A Family Man<\/strong> &mdash; Sam Black talks to his wife about his father, an enduring lesson and the power of a look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Short is sweet as POV presents brief documentary encounters &mdash; including an Academy Award nominee, a Student Academy Award winner&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21746,"template":"","show":[22],"film_type":[37],"filmmaker":[881],"class_list":["post-21745","film","type-film","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","show-pov","topic-family-society","topic-history","topic-immigration","topic-politics-government","topic-race-ethnicity","film_type-feature","filmmaker-various"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pov-staging.console.pbs.org\/pov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/films\/21745"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pov-staging.console.pbs.org\/pov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/films"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pov-staging.console.pbs.org\/pov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/film"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pov-staging.console.pbs.org\/pov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/films\/21745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170438,"href":"https:\/\/pov-staging.console.pbs.org\/pov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/films\/21745\/revisions\/170438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pov-staging.console.pbs.org\/pov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pov-staging.console.pbs.org\/pov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"show","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pov-staging.console.pbs.org\/pov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/show?post=21745"},{"taxonomy":"film_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pov-staging.console.pbs.org\/pov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/film_type?post=21745"},{"taxonomy":"filmmaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pov-staging.console.pbs.org\/pov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/filmmaker?post=21745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}