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"Food, Inc." a Double Winner; "Presumed Guilty" and "Good Fortune" Win Awards (New York) POV (Point of View) won four awards including Best Documentary at the 32nd Annual News & Documentary Emmy® Awards, it was announced last night by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Food, Inc. won Best Documentary and Outstanding Informational Programming – Long Form; Presumed Guilty won in the Outstanding Investigative Journalism – Long Form category; and Good Fortune won for Outstanding Business and Economic Reporting – Long Form. The three films aired during POV's 2010 season. PBS won a total of six 2011 News & Documentary Emmys. "Tonight's awards show the power of documentaries to shine a light on vital, underreported issues," said Cynthia Lopez, POV's Co-Executive Producer. "Food, Inc. exposed the shocking problems behind America's food production, while Good Fortune unveiled the unintended consequences of international aid in Africa, and Presumed Guilty took up the cause of a young man falsely imprisoned in Mexico. That Antonio Zuniga, the young man from Presumed Guilty, is now free and can be with us tonight, is a testament to the good that can come from dedicated filmmakers who fought to bring their cameras into the courtroom." These awards bring POV's Emmy total to 27, including a 2007 Special News & Documentary Emmy Award for Excellence in Television Documentary Filmmaking. "As POV enters its 25th season on PBS in 2012, independent documentaries continue to provide in-depth, valuable public information, often seen through a personal lens," said Simon Kilmurry, POV's Executive Producer. "We at POV believe that public media is the place where high-quality investigative journalism takes center stage." POV's News & Documentary Emmy Award-winning films: Food, Inc. by Robert Kenner Food, Inc. won Best Documentary prizes from the 2009 Gotham Awards, the Environmental Media Awards, the Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards and the Washington, D.C. Area Film Critics Association. Director/Producer: Robert Kenner; Producer: Elise Pearlstein; CoProducers: Richard Pearce, Eric Schlosser, Melissa Robledo; Executive Producers: Simon Kilmurry, William Pohlad, Jeff Skoll, Diane Weyermann; Co-Executive Producer, American Documentary/POV: Cynthia Lopez; Director of Programming and Production, American Documentary/POV: Chris White; Series Producer, American Documentary/POV: Yance Ford; Coordinating Producer, American Documentary/POV: Andrew Catauro. Presumed Guilty, a film by Roberto Hernandez and Layda Negrete; directed
by Roberto Hernandez and Geoffrey Smith After its POV broadcast, Presumed Guilty (Presunto Culpable in Spanish) created a sensation in Mexico, where it opened in theaters in February 2011 and was banned two weeks later when a witness from Zuniga's trial claimed the film invaded his privacy. A judge subsequently overturned the ban, but the film had already become the highest-grossing documentary in the country's history. Recently, it was the first documentary to be broadcast on Mexican primetime television. Presumed Guilty's numerous awards include 2010's IDA Humanitas Award; Best Bay Area Documentary, San Francisco International Film Festival; Best Documentary, Guadalajara International Film Festival; Best Documentary and Audience Award, DocumentaMadrid; Audience Award and Best International Feature, Los Angeles Film Festival; 2009's Amnesty International Award, Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival; and Best Documentary, Morelia International Film Festival. Directors: Roberto Hernandez, Geoffrey Smith; Producer: Layda Negrete; Executive Producers: Simon Kilmurry, Patricia Boero; Co-Executive Producer, American Documentary/POV: Cynthia Lopez; Director of Programming and Production, American Documentary/POV: Chris White; Series Producer, American Documentary/POV: Yance Ford; Coordinating Producer, American Documentary/POV: Andrew Catauro. Good Fortune by Landon Van Soest Good Fortune previously won the Witness Award at the 2009 AFI/Discovery Silverdocs Film Festival. Director: Landon Van Soest; Producer: Jeremy Levine; Executive Producers: Simon Kilmurry, Diana Barrett, Katy Chevigny, Judith Helfand, Andrew Herwitz; Co-Executive Producer, American Documentary/POV: Cynthia Lopez; Director of Programming and Production, American Documentary/POV: Chris White; Series Producer, American Documentary/POV: Yance Ford; Coordinating Producer, American Documentary/POV: Andrew Catauro. Now in its 24th season on PBS, POV airs Tuesdays at 10 p.m. on PBS from June to September, and features primetime specials during the year. POV has garnered many other awards, including 13 George Foster Peabody Awards, 10 duPont-Columbia Broadcast Journalism Awards, three Academy Awards®, the Prix Italia, the Webby, the IDA Award for Best Continuing Series and the National Association of Latino Independent Producers' 2011 Award for Corporate Commitment to Diversity.
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