PBS project uses faith to show ‘what it really means to be American’

As part of its 50th anniversary celebration, PBS has launched a multimedia storytelling project focused, in part, on faith and religion in the United States.

Using photo, video, and text message submissions, “American Portrait” aims to highlight the nation’s religious diversity—as well as its commonality. Partici­pants will respond to prompts about what they were raised to believe, the religious traditions they maintain, and how they make sense of the world today.

Over the next year, producers hope to use these submissions to create an online miniseries, public art installations, live shows, and—in January 2021—a televised documentary.