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Vote for the Viewer Pick

To celebrate Women’s History Month the choices for next Saturday’s Viewer Pick are videos inspired by women or addressing issues that affect women.

Vote for the Viewer Pick for Saturday, March 13, 9pm

• Aphrodite: Inspired by Shekhinah Mountainwater, Ava Su discovers how to connect with spirit through trance dance.
• Boxing Event: Interviews and behind-the-scene footage from the Klinefelter sisters’ first boxing event in Iowa City.
• PJ Harvey: The English musician and singer-songwriter gives an interview and performs some of her songs.
• Woman by Woman: The story of progressive change for women in some of the least developed villages of India. Vivid images portray the humanity of people, as well as the toll of centuries of poverty.

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Vote for the Saturday Night Viewer Pick

The winner for this week is “Where’s MacGuffin?” Every family produces a mystery movie while on vacation, right? This one did. Watch as they search the San Francisco area for the ever-elusive MacGuffin.

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This week’s winner is Breaking the Bank: “After the Seattle victory that stopped the World Trade Organization in its ‘fast’ tracks, tens of thousands converged on D.C. to challenge the Int’l Monetary Fund and World Bank.”

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This week’s winner is Monster Road. A 2004 documentary about 56 year old, underground clay animation legend Bruce Bickford. Most famous for the strange, dark animations he made for Zappa in the 70s.

Vote for the Viewer Pick for Saturday, February 13, 9pm

 Vote for the Viewer Pick for Saturday, February 13, 9pm

• Intellectual Freedom Festival: What producing, sampling, remixing and broadcasting have to teach about copyright, featuring The Chaircrusher, Marco Maisto, Kembrew McLeod, and PATV's own Tack-Fu.
• The Man Who Knew Too Much: Hitchcock and Stewart team up for this Oscar-winning thriller in which a family vacationing in Morocco accidentally stumble onto an assassination plot.
• Mr. HappEEEE TimEEEE Fun Hour #3: What you'll see: a man in a mask, a sleepy puppet, a guitar, countless effects pedals, crazy special effects. What you won't see: interview with the cast of Lost.
• New Pi Co-op Presents: Everyone needs chocolate. Chef Kurt Michael Friese demonstrates how to make a decadent Chocolate Mousse Torte. Get sugared up for Valentine's Day.

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Vote for this week’s Viewer Pick

This week’s winner is Video Works by Bonnie Sparling: This collection includes a documentary in which women share their ideas of what roles they have in relationships and society.

Vote for the Saturday Night Viewer Pick

This week’s Saturday Nite Viewer pick is, Midnite Mausoleum: Marlena Midnite presents another horror classic. Why can’t werewolves and vampires just get along?

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 Vote for the Viewer Pick for Saturday, January 23, 9pm

• Bike-in Theater: Heat Vision & Jack get into trouble, Elvis meets the Beatles, Strindberg & Helium are feeling kind of down… and What to Do on a Date!
• Directing Workshop: Ty Clancey, a Cedar Rapids native now working as a director & editor in LA, presents an in-depth workshop about film directing.
• Martin Luther King Jr., An Amazing Grace: One of the most charismatic and effective leaders of the 20th century, he helped bring an end to segregation. This documentary remembers his journey.
• Vic Chesnutt: A collection of performances by musician Vic Chesnutt whose musical style is described as a "skewed, refracted version of Americana that is haunting, funny and poignant."

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Viewer Pick for Saturday, January 16

Snow Beast: In this made for TV film, an enormous and angry bigfoot creature begins to terrorize a Colorado Ski Resort during a winter carnival, by eating several skiers.

Viewer Pick for Saturday, January 9

This week’s winner is Midnite Mausoleum: Marlena Midnite presents “Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things”, directed by Bob Clark who also directed “Porky’s” and “A Christmas Story.” Thanks for voting!