International Call

ITVS International is looking for single documentaries with powerful global stories that inform, inspire, and connect Americans to the world at large. We fund programs from all points of view that engage American audiences and expand civic participation by bringing diverse voices into the public sphere. We embrace projects from every part of the world, including places that are lesser known to U.S. audiences or seldom represented on U.S. television. We especially encourage producers from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East to apply for funding.

ITVS International premieres funded programs on U.S public and commercial television, engaging viewers and maximizing impact through national promotion and educational outreach campaigns. For this highly competitive fund, a program must feature content that matches the ITVS mission and excels in the art of storytelling. See our evaluation criteria.

These programs have been funded by ITVS International.

For more information, visit the Global Perspectives Project page.

	74 Square Meters A social experiment that moves marginalized families into a middle class neighborhood in Valparaiso, Chile.
	Behind the Rainbow Can the deal between South Africa’s old apartheid regime and its new government withstand the test of time?
	Journals of a Wily School Follow a young pickpocket through the streets of Kolkata, where he plies his trade and plays a real-life game of cops and robbers...
	Last Train Home Set against the backdrop of the world’s largest annual human migration, Last Train Home follows the Zhang family who travel home on Chinese New Year to reunite with their teenage daughter.
	The Last Tightrope Dancer in Armenia Two elderly masters of Armenian tightrope dancing search for an understudy to carry on a dying tradition.
	Stranded: The Andes Plane Crash Survivors A parable of human survival and extreme measures — as a group of young men break society’s greatest taboo in order to survive.
	This is My Picture When I was Dead An imaginative look at what happens after four-year-old Bashir comes back to life after the assassination of him and his father, a top PLO lieutenant.
	Unmistaken Child When one of Tibet’s greatest monks passes away, his shy, gifted disciple must complete a monumental task assigned by the Dalai Lama: to find the child who is the reincarnation of his master.
	Waltz With Bashir Written and directed by Ari Folman, this animated feature relates Folman’s struggle to come to terms with his role in the 1982 Lebanon War.