The PBS Online Film Festival returns for its 4th year this summer from June 15 through July 17, 2015. PIC is proud to present the Hawai'i story The Fishing Club, a film by David Rosen that premiered at the 2014 Hawaii International Film Festival. This short film, featuring the acting talents of Keali'i Reichel, Robert Kekaula, and more, tells the story of a group of close friends, The Fishing Club, who are determined to stop the development of one of Hawai'i's last pristine shorelines into a large resort. They come up with a bold plan to "Keep the Country Country", but do they go too far? This film was shot in the caves, back roads, forests and streams of O'ahu, but it could have happened anywhere in Hawai'i - or around the world.

 Since its launch in 2012, the PBS Online Film Festival has featured diverse films from PBS member stations, POV and collaborations with public television producers, including the Center for Asian American Media, Latino Public Broadcasting (LPB), National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC), Pacific Islanders in Communications (PIC), and Vision Maker Media. The PBS Online Film Festival has attracted more than one million video streams and more than 100,000 votes over the first three years. Learn more about this year's festival here.

The Media Fund is PIC's standing funding initiative, which provides funds for single non-fiction programs for three critical phases of production: Research and Development (R&D), Production and Completion. Projects applying to Media Fund must be intended for national public television broadcast and therefore must be able to enter into a license agreement - this is not a grant. 
 

The next deadline for Media Fund applications is Friday, July 10, 2015 at 5:00 p.m. HST. This call is for R&D funding applications only. To learn more about applying for R&D funds, please visit our R&D Funding page.