The City of Fort Walton Beach Heritage Park and Cultural Center is hosting a free documentary film screening of Up Heartbreak Hill by Erica Scharf. The film screening is free and open to the public. This event is in collaboration with the award winning documentary series POV (www.pbs.org/pov/).
Film Synopsis: Thomas and Tamara are track stars at their rural New Mexico high school. Like many teenagers, they are torn between the lure of brighter futures elsewhere and the ties that bind them to home. For these teens, however, home is an impoverished town on the Navajo reservation, and leaving means separating from family, tradition and the land that has been theirs for generations. Erica Scharf's Up Heartbreak Hill is a moving look at a new generation of Americans struggling to be both Native and modern. This film is a co-production of Long Distance Films, Native American Public Telecommunications, ITVS, POV's Diverse Voices Project and New Mexico PBS, with funding provided by the Corporation for PublicBroadcasting. A co-presentation with Native American Public Telecommunications. Run Time: 60 minutes.
POV (a cinema term for "point of view") is television's longest-running showcase for independent non-fiction films. POV premieres 14-16 of the best, boldest and most innovative programs every year on PBS. Since 1988, POV has presented over 300 films to public television audiences across the country. POV films are known for their intimacy, unforgettable storytelling and timeliness, putting a human face on contemporary social issues.
