Press Releases

  1. At Home in Utopia, Chronicle of a Radical Cooperative Housing Experiment in the Bronx, to Air on PBS’s Independent Lens on Tuesday, April 28, 2009, at 10pm

    March 24, 2009

    Visit the companion website >> (San Francisco, CA)—In the 1920s, believing they could create a radical new American dream committed to equality, justice and beauty, a group of Jewish garment workers left the tenements behind to build cooperative apartment complexes in the green, spacious borough of the Bronx. Then the Great Depression…

  2. ITVS International and the Knight Center for International Media to Launch the 1H20 Project on World Water Day

    March 19, 2009

    San Francisco, CA—ITVS International and the Knight Center for International Media at the University of Miami School of Communication, with funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, announce the launch of the 1H20 Project, a series of film and video-based initiatives aimed at bringing awareness to the worldwide water crisis. The…

  3. ITVS International Announces the Return to PBS WORLD of the International Documentary Series Global Voices

    March 12, 2009

    Visit the Global Voices program site >> (San Francisco, CA)—Independent Television Service (ITVS) announced today the lineup for the second season of Global Voices, the international documentary series produced by ITVS International for the PBS WORLD digital channel. Global Voices’ second season begins Sunday, April 26, 2009 at 10 PM (check…

  4. Lakshmi and Me to Air Nationally on the PBS Series Independent Lens on Tuesday, March 24, 2009

    March 9, 2009

    Visit the companion website >> (San Francisco, CA)—An intimate examination of the relationship between filmmaker Nishtha Jain and her young maid, LAKSHMI AND ME offers an in-depth look at the enormous influence of class and caste in Indian society, where domestic workers are routinely underpaid and treated as social inferiors. Contrasting…

  5. Mahmoud Al Massad’s Recycle to Air Nationally on PBS’s Independent Lens on Tuesday, March 31, 2009

    February 17, 2009

    Visit the companion website >> (San Francisco, CA)—What makes a terrorist? In Zarqa, Jordan’s second-largest city, with close to 1 million people, it is a much-debated question. Zarqa’s political Islamists are a powerful force in this industrial center, and it is the birthplace of Abu Musa al Zarqawi, the brutal leader of al Qaeda in Mesopotamia,…