KQED Presents

Producers of independent documentaries turn to KQED Presents to maximize national and international distribution for their productions. KQED, the most watched public television station during primetime, offers comprehensive programs and services to clients by giving them maximum reach, technical expertise, and unprecedented reporting.

Each year KQED takes on a limited number of completed productions (or productions that will be fully completed by the producer) for national public television broadcast. KQED customizes the services it offers to producers to effectively and efficiently guide the programs through the public television system.

Publicist contact info for KQED’s Presentations can be found at the bottom of each press release.

Roadtrip Nation Hits the Road This Fall with Milestone Tenth Season and 100th Episode!

Roadtrip Nation is a weekly half-hour documentary series that tracks the up-close and personal journeys of young people as they cross the nation to figure out what to do with their lives. Roadtrip Productions and KQED are proud to announce Season Ten of Roadtrip Nation launching in September 2013, and distributed through American Public Television [...]

Boyhood Shadows: I Swore I’d Never Tell Gives Voice to Survivors of Childhood Abuse.

KQED presents the shattering new documentary Boyhood Shadows: I Swore I’d Never Tell. The silence is broken. One in six boys is sexually molested by the age of 16. The statistic is staggering . In the groundbreaking documentary Boyhood Shadows: I Swore I’d Never Tell, filmmakers Steve Rosen and Terri DeBono (Accidental Hero and Beyond Barbed Wire) explore the life-long [...]

Travel the Globe from Bhutan to Nicaragua in Season 7 of Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope

KQED presents the new season of Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope with 13 episodes featuring global adventures in Bhutan, Japan, Taiwan, Nicaragua, Mexico and more! Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope transports viewers across the planet to such exotic destinations as Japan’s little-visited Ogasawara islands, located more than 600 miles from the mainland and comprised of people with American roots, [...]

New Series Film School Shorts Brings Award-Winning Films to Public Television

The future of filmmaking has arrived. Short Films + Big Productions = Film School Shorts KQED has your festival pass to Film School Shorts, an exciting, unique national series featuring the top fiction shorts made by students from across the country. Film School Shorts showcases well-crafted films with high production values, strong dialogue and inspired themes. [...]

Celebrate Read Across America with KQED and the Cat in the Hat!

Family-friendly events planned in San Francisco and San Mateo. KQED to air two back-to-back premieres on Friday, March 1, of the acclaimed PBS KIDS series, The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! Theodor Seuss Geisel would have turned 109 on March 2 this year. On the school day closest to the beloved [...]

Spice Up Your New Year with Season Two of Joanne Weir’s Cooking Confidence!

KQED presents Season Two of Joanne Weir’s Cooking Confidence with 13 brand new programs featuring award-winning cookbook author, teacher, restaurateur and television personality Joanne Weir. PUBLICITY PHOTOS: Season Two of Joanne Weir’s Cooking Confidence is scheduled to begin airing nationally on public television in January 2013 (check local listings) and in the Bay Area on [...]

Something Ventured Film – How Entrepreneurs & Venture Capitalists Changed Our World

Miralan Productions and KQED present Something Ventured, an award-winning documentary that looks at the early investors behind revolutionary technology companies like… PUBLICITY PHOTOS: Movie Poster (pdf) Additional photos available on program website. …Apple, Intel, Genentech, Atari and Cisco. These original venture capitalists were the first to fund and build companies that led to the birth [...]

The New Environmentalists: ordinary people effecting extraordinary change

Mill Valley Film Group teams up with Robert Redford to highlight environmental heroes. PUBLICITY PHOTOS: The New Environmentalists share a common goal – safeguarding the Earth’s natural resources from exploitation and pollution, while fighting for justice in their communities. The film is the latest in the Mill Valley Film Group’s Emmy Award-winning series featuring inspiring [...]

Season Nine of Roadtrip Nation to Premiere This Fall with an All New Coast-to-Coast Journey

Roadtrip Nation is a weekly half-hour documentary series that tracks the up-close and personal journeys of young people as they cross the nation to figure out what to do with their lives. Roadtrip Productions and KQED are proud to announce the premiere of Season Nine of Roadtrip Nation on October 6, 2012, which will be [...]

Richard Bangs unknots the ordinary in Richard Bangs’ South America: Quest for Wonder

Richard Bangs’ South America: Quest for Wonder showcases some of the greatest destinations of the South American continent, rekindling viewers’ sense of awe and amazement. PUBLICITY PHOTOS: KQED has partnered with award-winning author/producer Richard Bangs, often called “the father of modern adventure travel,” on his Quest series, adding a new level of exploration from his [...]