Karla Murthy
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The Gas Station Attendant (Film & Talk)
Wednesday, September 30, 2026 | 6pm to 8pm City College of New York 256 Convent Avenue, Shepard Hall, Room 290, Manhattan RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/ Join Third World Newsreel and the Documentary Forum at CCNY for a special screening and Q&A featuring . This intimate documentary follows H. N. Shantha Murthy’s remarkable journey from escaping extreme poverty in an Indian village to a life-changing encounter that brought him to Texas.
The Gas Station Attendant
Plenty of movies have told the story of an immigrant who came to the United States with nothing and became rich and famous. Not too many have told a much more commonplace story: the immigrant who spent many years just trying to survive, and finally reached a level where they didn’t constantly have to struggle.
‘The Gas Station Attendant’: Immigrant Father, Questioning Daughter
‘The Gas Station Attendant’: Immigrant Father, Questioning Daughter Karla Murthy retells her Indian dad’s life story to better understand her own in this deeply personal documentary.
Personal Exposure
It was early in the edit when I experienced my first moment of panic. I had just brought on a co-editor to help me sort through hours and hours of footage. It’s the critical stage of any documentary project, when you put all your footage out on the table to get those first emotional reactions, to sift, examine and catalog it all. But unlike any other film I had made, this footage was uniquely different, because it was personal.
How I Get Unstuck
Whenever I get stuck, my eyes instinctively wander up above my computer monitor to my bulletin board which is plastered with little odds and ends, photos, postcards and quotes I’ve collected over the years: a sketch of a house (see my first Talkhouse essay), a Sun Ra album cover, photos of my kids, a copy of a 1965 Time magazine cover with Bill Moyers (my former boss), a gold rim from a gallon of Blue Bell Ice Cream. Each holds a lesson, an inspiration, a reminder that it will all be OK.
Mental Health Issues Spiked During the Pandemic. Medicaid Isn’t Much Help.
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Ten Years Into the Fight for $15, Workers Are Still Fighting for a Living Wage
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How the Endless Paperwork of the Pandemic Kept People From Receiving Benefits
This is Part 1 of “Insecurity,” a series of short films that tells the stories of Americans who aren’t caught by our social safety net. As we will see, the pandemic only made things worse, including for Lisa Ventura, a social worker who finds herself drowning in the endless paperwork required for her clients, and family, to receive the benefits and services they are entitled to and need. This piece was supported by the journalism nonprofit the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.
How Houston has transformed its airports into hubs for art
Millions of people travel through Houston's airports each month - making the region one of the busiest for air travel in the country. But while they are traveling, they are also getting a glimpse of one of the largest collections of public art in the state of Texas. Special Correspondent Karla Murthy reports from Hobby Airport in Houston on how Houston has made public art in its airports a priority.
An international mural festival brings art to Cleveland’s walls
Over a week earlier this summer, artists descended on a Cleveland, Ohio neighborhood to paint murals on buildings. Part of an international mural festival that has taken place in cities around the world, Cleveland was the first city in the midwest to be part of the program. NewsHour Weekend special correspondent Karla Murthy reports. Hari Sreenivasan: In 2009, artist Jasper Wong founded an international mural arts festival and arts outreach program in Hong Kong.
An international mural festival brings art to Cleveland's walls
Transcript Hari Sreenivasan: In 2009, artist Jasper Wong founded an international mural arts festival and arts outreach program in Hong Kong. Since then, the festival has taken place in cities worldwide -- with the goal of building community by beautifying physical spaces. NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Karla Murthy travelled to Cleveland Ohio this summer - to see how the city celebrated this larger than life art form.
Research on the run: how a Cleveland city planner is mapping his city
Phil Kidd moved to Cleveland two years ago to work as a city planner. In the midst of the pandemic, he decided to start an ambitious project to better understand his adopted city. Kidd has started a project to run all 3,000 street miles in Cleveland, and he researches, and writes about each run on his blog, "Every Street Cleveland." Special Correspondent Karla Murthy reports from Cleveland. Hari Sreenivasan: Tomorrow, about 20,000 runners will compete in the 125th Boston Marathon.
Broadway's Tina Turner musical returns as theaters reopen
Transcript Hari Sreenivasan: Last Sunday - as Broadway was reopening - Adrienne Warren won a Tony award for her performance as Tina Turner in the musical about the singer's journey to become one of the best-selling recording artists of all time. Turner won her first solo Grammy in 1984 for the song "What's Love Got to do With it" after leaving her husband and musical partner Ike Turner.
Broadway throws open its doors as it returns from its longest shutdown
New York City’s theaters are finally reopening after they were shut down on March 12, 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic began to hit the city. This has been the longest shutdown in Broadway’s history. Major hits like “Lion King” and “Hamilton” are back, and smaller productions are returning too. NewsHour Weekend’s Zachary Green spoke with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Martyna Majok, whose new play, “Sanctuary City,” opened a year-and-a-half later than planned.
With Angela Merkel leaving, Germany goes to polls in landmark election
Thomas Sparrow: We have to differentiate between the big election campaign topics, for example, climate change, something that all major parties really focused on, or the coronavirus pandemic, which has played obviously as in basically everywhere around the world, a very important role here in Germany in the last few months, but also in the last year as well. So those are the big topics that politicians were often discussing.
Can urban reforestation help lower rising temperatures?
This past summer was the hottest on record in more than a century. To shield against rising temperatures, many cities around the country are taking a closer look at trees, which have been shown to cool the air by as much as 10 degrees. Special Correspondent Karla Murthy reports from Cleveland — a city once known as 'The Forest City' — to take a look at efforts to restore its once-prolific tree canopy.
This former steel mill used to employ thousands-how the site is adapting and creating jobs now
The Bethlehem steel mill in Maryland was once the largest working mill in the world, employing 30,000 people at its peak in the 1950's. The collapse of the American steel industry forced the mill into bankruptcy, closing for good in 2012. Now, new economic opportunities are rising on the land where the mill once stood. NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Karla Murthy reports from Baltimore County on the challenges and successes creating jobs in a once-thriving port.
Finding Home
I had been sitting for months in a mountain of footage, cutting and re-cutting scenes, trying to find my way. What was my film about? I was lost and overwhelmed. Enter Penelope Falk, award-winning documentary editor extraordinaire. She came over to my house, and we spent hours and hours sifting through all the footage I had shot up to that point. We organized, discussed, argued, whittled away extraneous storylines, and began the work of giving the film some edges and outlines.
Karla Murthy
Karla Murthy Karla Murthy is an Emmy Award-nominated producer, and the director and producer of the new documentary The Place That Makes Us, which premieres March 30 on WORLD Channel and worldchannel.org, and then stream on amdoc.org, LinkTV.org, PBS.org and the PBS app. She began her career working for the veteran journalist Bill Moyers, and has been a producer, cameraperson and correspondent for various PBS news magazines over the last 15 years.
By historical standards, President-elect Biden faces immense challenges
Jeff Greenfield: When it comes to a tough beginning, Abraham Lincoln wins the gold medal. By the time he came into office—after sneaking into Washington to avoid an assassination plot— seven Southern states had already seceded. Within a month, Fort Sumter had fallen and the Civil War was on in earnest, a war that haunted Lincoln throughout his presidency. Just five days after Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox, Lincoln was assassinated.
ER doctor shares her vaccination experience
As vaccines rollout throughout the country, frontline healthcare workers are the first to receive the COVID-19 protection. Dr. Alexis Langsfeld, a New York physician, spoke with NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Karla Murthy about the vaccination and the surge in cases across the country. Hari Sreenivasan: As vaccines roll out across the country, frontline healthcare workers are among the first to receive the COVID-19 protection.
Quest for home ownership turns dreams into nightmares
PBS NewsHour Jun 27, 2020 5:15 PM EDT A predatory rent-to-own program run by a company called Vision Property Management has offered the promise of future ownership in low-income neighborhoods, but many of the homes tendered by the company needed expensive repairs. And after fixing the problems, some residents soon found eviction notices on their doors.
What Mother’s Day means to a new mom during the pandemic
In March, Christina Lewis Halpern shared her experience about giving birth to her third child, a baby girl, at the epicenter of the pandemic in New York City. NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Karla Murthy checked in to see how she’s doing this Mother's Day with her new growing family. Hari Sreenivasan: Across the country, this Mother's Day is perhaps being celebrated in ways never done before.
Nation faces patchwork of voting rules during the outbreak
PBS NewsHour May 9, 2020 5:56 PM EDT With just six months until November's presidential election, states across the U.S. are trying to determine how to safely collect and count ballots during a national health emergency. And while there is a patchwork of coronavirus election plans, dozens of states allow mail-in ballots or absentee voting. But some states are more restrictive than others. NewsHour Weekend's Christopher Booker reports.
How a teacher in China kept students engaged during lockdown
PBS NewsHour May 9, 2020 5:07 PM EDT Schools in some of China’s largest cities are beginning to reopen months after the coronavirus outbreak forced them to shut down and move their classes online. NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Karla Murthy spoke to one teacher at an international school in Beijing about how she's kept students engaged at home and with the world outside. Hari Sreenivasan: In February, schools in China were the first to move classes online in the wake of COVID-19.
How the coronavirus is delaying life-altering surgeries
The coronavirus is reshaping the way some Americans live and even how they receive healthcare. One challenge that has emerged from this crisis is which patients get life-changing surgeries that have been deemed elective medical procedures during the pandemic and which ones wait. NewsHour Weekend’s Christopher Booker reports on how doctors and patients are being impacted by the delays. Hari Sreenivasan: One challenge facing hospitals during the pandemic?
Revisiting a doctor on the front line of the pandemic
PBS NewsHour Apr 26, 2020 5:06 PM EDT Back in March, as the United States was just beginning to experience a steep rise in coronavirus cases, NewsHour Weekend spoke with Dr. Alexis Langsfeld, who works in the emergency department of a New York City hospital, now in the epicenter of the pandemic. Special correspondent Karla Murthy caught up again with Dr. Langsfeld on the front line of the outbreak to learn more.
A glimpse of a second-grade class during the outbreak
PBS NewsHour Apr 12, 2020 4:42 PM EDT With the outbreak causing indefinite school closures across the country, children are having to figure out new ways of learning and playing together while living in isolation. Special correspondent Karla Murthy checked in on one second-grade class in New York City to get a glimpse of how their worlds have changed. Hari Sreenivasan: As everyone knows, America's children are going to school online these days and how that will affect education is yet to be known.
Giving birth in the epicenter of the pandemic
Christina Lewis Halpern: You know, it was really, really scary. I'll say one thing when people would ask me how I'm doing. I'd say, you know, we're kind of great, you know, as a family. We really had something great to look forward to. It does look like children are really not affected so badly by, you know, by Covid. And so that's really the most important thing. You know, like a happy, healthy baby at the end of it. And so we still always have that, you know, reasonably to look forward to.
One doctor’s view from the frontline of the outbreak
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Dementia day care center helps families cope with caregiving
PBS NewsHour Feb 23, 2020 4:59 PM EST Millions of senior citizens in America are living with dementia, with the heavy burden of caregiving often left to family members. But a new adult day care center for those with dementia, called Town Square, may serve as a model for helping families cope with the costs and stresses that can come along with caregiving. Special correspondent Karla Murthy reports from San Diego.
Sea of obstacles imperil American Samoa’s tuna industry
PBS NewsHour Feb 15, 2020 5:10 PM EST Locally based fishermen who supply the lone Starkist tuna cannery in American Samoa are facing a perfect storm of obstacles that are threatening their economic survival. A battle is now on in the U.S. territory to fend off those looming challenges, from rising fuel costs to international competition. Special correspondent Mike Taibbi reports with support from Pacific Islanders in Communications.
How the end of a major tax incentive may impact wind energy
The amount of wind energy in the United States has more than doubled since 2011. It’s gotten a big boost from a federal incentive called the Production Tax Credit. But after nearly 30 years, the tax is set to begin phasing out. Karla Murthy reports from Texas as part of our series "Peril and Promise” on how the industry is approaching the end of incentives. Hari Screenivasan: The U.S. currently has no national plan to combat climate change.
Black Comic Book Festival draws thousands in Harlem
PBS NewsHour Jan 18, 2020 5:23 PM EST New York's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture celebrated the tradition of black comics this weekend with its annual Black Comic Book Festival. Thousands attended the two-day exhibition in Harlem, which also featured screenings, panel discussions and a cosplay competition. And for fans, it was a chance to meet some of their favorite comic creators and superheroes. Karla Murthy reports.
Disease threatens Italy’s once booming olive oil industry
More than a third of olive oil in the U.S. comes from Italy, which has kept a longstanding reputation for quality. But the quantity of olive oil made in the south of Italy has been in sharp decline. A disease in the region of Puglia has been attacking olive trees, decimating the industry and causing Italy to import olive oil for the first time. Special correspondent Christopher Livesay reports. Helen Mirren: As you can see we've got some beautiful, beautiful old trees.
Black Comic Book Festival draws thousands in Harlem
By Karla Murthy and Melanie Saltzman January 18, 2020 @ 5:23 PM Transcript Hari Sreenivasan: This weekend, New York Schomburg Library in Harlem celebrated the tradition of black comics with its annual Black Comic Book Festival. Thousands attend the two day exhibition, which also features screenings, panel discussions and a cosplay competition. And for fans both young and old, it's a chance to meet some of their favorite comic creators and maybe find some new superheroes.
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