In the News: The Latest on ITVS Programs

Following Workers’ Trails of Tears in China 
"Lixin is not from the foreign-influenced cultural centers,” said Daniel Cross, president of EyesteelFilm company in Montreal, which produced Up the Yangtze and co-produced Last Train Home with the ITVS … Read more >>>

Camp Victory Afghanistan 
Filmmaker Carol Dysinger talks about her new documentary that premieres tonight… Listen to the Podcast >>>

Plugging the Arts –PBS launches interactive portal making visual arts programming more accessible than ever 
Within a year, PBS plans to expand its arts initiative to broadcast, with a dedicated night of programming each week. In anticipation, some PBS series have already increased arts-related content. Next April, the documentary series “Independent Lens” will focus solely on the visual arts, with four films in four weeks, according to the series producer Lois Vossen. In addition, the first documentary film on the life of William S. Burroughs, which will appear in US cinemas this autumn, has been slated to air on PBS in May. Read more >>>

Carmen Meets Borat Coming To Global Voices Series On PBS World Channel 
With all the strange, interesting, and bad press that followed in the wake of Sasha Baron Cohen’s Borat film, you’re about to get a new look behind the scenes of the production, from the perspective of yet another group duped by the film. While many of the stories that came out the film didn’t evoke a great deal of sympathy, the curious bamboozling of the village of Glod in Romania might deliver a different picture. Read more >>>