The acclaimed documentary series P.O.V. begins its Summer Season on PBS on June 24th with Katrina Browne’s Traces of the Trade, the story of Browne’s slave-trading New England ancestors and her family’s contemporary retracing of the trade triangle (and the fallout that ensues). See the complete list of films screening this Summer on P.O.V. here.

Yance Ford, P.O.V.’s Series Producer will be at DCTV at 7.30pm tonight to talk at a Shooting People/DCTV event about how the films are chosen, the history of P.O.V., the social outreach element of what they do and the role of docs on public television. There are exactly 10 tickets left at this point so snap one up now if docs are your thing on a Friday night (je suis so rock and roll!)