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- Season 16 Love & Diane
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- Season 16 Larry v. Lockney
- Season 16 Discovering Dominga
- Season 16 The Flute Player
- Season 16 90 Miles
- Season 16 American Aloha: Hula Beyond Hawai'i
- Season 16 West 47th Street
- Season 16 Family Fundamentals
- Season 16 Soldados: Chicanos in Viet Nam; The Sixth Section
- Season 16 State of Denial
- Season 16 What I Want My Words to Do to You
POV - Season 16 Episode 8 West 47th Street
6.80 60 minutes West 47th Street is a documentary film produced by Bill Lichtenstein and June Peoples of the Peabody Award-winning Lichtenstein Creative Media.
"West 47th Street" is an intimate cinéma vérité portrait of four people with serious mental illness as their lives naturally unfold over a three-year period beginning in spring 2001. The characters are all members of Fountain House, a psychiatric rehabilitation programme located on West 47th Street in a part of New York City once known as Hell's Kitchen.
At times hilarious and at other times tragic, West 47th Street provided an unprecedented window on the lives of people who are often feared and ignored, seldom understood. The film features Fitzroy Fredericks; Zeinab Wali; Nathanial "Tex" Gordon; and Frances Olivero. The film highlights the faith and courage with which these four people fight to regain control of their lives. Viewers see them on and off the streets, in and out of the hospital, on and off medication, at home and at work.
The film was the “Editors’ Choice – Pick of the Night," by TV Guide. The Cleveland Film Festival hailed the film as: “The most wrenching moments in the Cleveland International Film Festival belonged not to any scripted plot, but to a special preview of this vérité documentary masterpiece." Dennis King at Tulsa World wrote, "A life-altering cinema experience. Watch it and you'll no longer be able to pass those troubled souls on the street without noticing, without caring, without understanding that attention must be paid.
