PBS’s independent documentary series POV (Point of View) and The New York Times (NYT) have announced a collaboration to present new documentaries on the organizations’ websites.
Starting today, March 8, with the half-hour film “The Men of Atalissa” by Dan Barry and Kassie Bracken, POV and The New York Times will premiere a series of digital documentaries, with accompanying articles and interviews, throughout 2014.
“The Men of Atalissa,” produced by The New York Times, will kick off simultaneously on the websites of POV and The Times on March 8.
Concurrently, an article by The New York Times’s Dan Barry will be published on The Times website, and POV will feature a behind-the-scenes online interview with the journalists.
Mr. Barry’s article will appear in the Sunday print edition of The New York Times the following day.
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Produced by Kassie Bracken, John Woo and Dan Barry, “The Men of Atalissa” is the story of a few dozen men with intellectual disability who lived in an old schoolhouse on top of a hill.
For more than three decades, they were an integral part of an Iowa farming community, worshipping at the local churches, dancing at the local bars, working at a nearby turkey-processing plant; they were affectionately known as “the boys.”
But none of their neighbors knew of the day-to-day abuse the men endured in that schoolhouse on the hill.
“Documentaries and journalism are natural allies, and our collaboration with The New York Times represents the best of both worlds,” said Cynthia Lopez, co-executive producer of POV.
Photo courtesy: POV
