Press Releases

(San Francisco, CA)—The Independent Television Service (ITVS) announced today that two of its funded films have been selected for competition in the upcoming 2009 Sundance Film Festival, to be held in Park City, Utah, from January 15-25. This brings the number of ITVS funded films, which have screened at Sundance, to a total of 66 since ITVS first had a…

View a trailer and find more information >> (San Francisco, CA)—Faubourg Tremé is arguably the oldest black neighborhood in America, the origin of the southern civil rights movement and the birthplace of jazz. Long before Hurricane Katrina, two native New Orleanians, one black and one white—writer Lolis Eric Elie and filmmaker Dawn…

Visit the companion website >> “This one of the wittiest, most diligently researched, slyly intelligent and quietly captivating documentaries of the year.” —David Jenkins, Time Out London (San Francisco, CA)—Born in 1957 of Swiss origin, Helvetica was a typeface for the modern age. Sleek, streamlined and simple, it became the font that…

(San Francisco/New York) — Today, the National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC) and the Independent Television Service (ITVS), announce the launch of THE MASCULINITY PROJECT: Black Community in Focus—an interactive multimedia and community engagement project that asks the question “What does it mean to be a man?” Its purpose is to enlist diverse,…

(San Francisco)—The Independent Television Service (ITVS) has announced that ten of its funded programs have been chosen as official selections at the International Documentary Festival of Amsterdam (IDFA), November 20-30, 2008. Now in its 21st year, the prestigious festival is the largest showcase of documentary film in the world. Many ITVS films…