ROBERT Y. CHANG Co-Producer | American Documentary, POV | USA

Robert Y. Chang is the Co-Producer of POV, the longest-running independent documentary showcase on American television. Prior to POV, Robert was the Coordinating Producer of America ReFramed, where across five seasons, he facilitated the national broadcast premieres of nearly seventy independent films.

Robert has served as programmer, panelist, and reviewer for a range of film festivals, foundations, and funders of the arts. He has also served as a juror for festival and industry awards including the IDA Awards, RTDNA Murrow Awards, and the News & Doc Emmys.

Robert received his PhD in Cultural Anthropology at NYU with research on the intersection of religion and media. As an independent filmmaker, Robert's work has been screened worldwide and is distributed by Documentary Educational Resources (DER).

In 2020, DOC NYC awarded him a New Leader in Documentary Award and he is a member of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Producers Guild of America, A-DOC and NLGJA.

American Documentary, POV

Produced by American Documentary, POV is the longest-running independent documentary showcase on American television. Since 1988, POV has presented films on PBS that capture the full spectrum of the human experience, with a long commitment to centering women and people of colour in front of, and behind, the camera.

The series is known for introducing generations of viewers to groundbreaking works like Tongues Untied, American Promise and Minding The Gap and innovative filmmakers including Jonathan Demme, Laura Poitras and Nanfu Wang.

In 2018, POV Shorts launched as one of the first PBS series dedicated to bold and timely short-form documentaries. All POV programs are available for streaming concurrent with broadcast on all station-branded PBS platforms, including  PBS.org and the PBS Video app.

POV goes “beyond the broadcast” to bring powerful nonfiction storytelling to viewers wherever they are. Free educational resources accompany every film and a community network of thousands of partners nationwide work with POV to spark dialogue around today’s most pressing issues

POV continues to explore the future of documentary through innovative productions with partners such as The New York Times and The National Film Board of Canada and on platforms including Snapchat and Instagram. POV films and projects have won 46 Emmy Awards, 27 George Foster Peabody Awards, 15 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards, three Academy Awards and the first-ever George Polk Documentary Film Award.

Website:https://pbs.org/pov