Press Releases
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ITVS Garners Four Wins at the 29th Annual News and Documentary Emmy® Awards
September 23, 2008San Francisco, (CA)—Independent Television Service (ITVS) announced today that three of its acclaimed films have won four Emmys at the 29th annual News and Documentary Emmy® Awards. The awards recognize outstanding achievement in broadcast journalism during the 2007 calendar year. Since 1997, ITVS-funded projects have garnered 13 wins at the News…
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Aimee's Crossing, an Intimate Journey of One Young Woman’s Exeperience in the Juvenile Justice System, to Air on Public Television in October 2008
September 18, 2008(Chicago, Illinois)—Female juvenile offenders have the fastest growing rates of incarceration; yet, media access to their stories and lives is extremely limited because they are minors. However, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich granted veteran documentary filmmaker Tod Lending unprecedented access to female juvenile correctional facilities…
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Dinner With the President: A Nation’s Journey Premieres October, 28 2008, on the Emmy® Award–Winning PBS Series Independent Lens
September 4, 2008Visit the companion website >> (San Francisco, CA)—Are dictatorship and democracy mutually exclusive? In a country of cultures as ancient and complex as Pakistan’s, the answer to what the future holds is not straightforward. Projected to be the world’s third-most-populous country by 2050, Pakistan has stood at the crossroads of East and West…
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Michael Chandler And Sheila Canavan’s Award-Winning Knee Deep Premieres on the PBS Series Independent Lens on Tuesday, November 6, at 10pm
September 4, 2008Visit the companion website >> (San Francisco, CA)—If you travel through Maine and leave behind the familiar coast of idyllic summer vacations, you find yourself in a different Maine, the Maine of fields, farms, work and dirt. It’s a place most tourists never see—it is, as the locals say, the real Maine. Winner of the Maysles Brothers Award for Best…
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March Point Follows Three Teens from the Swinomish Indian Tribe as They Become Filmmakers and Environmental Activists
September 4, 2008Visit the companion website >> (San Francisco, CA)—Travis, Nick and Cody have been friends almost all their lives, growing up on the Swinomish Reservation in northwest Washington. When they find themselves in trouble with drugs and alcohol, the teens are offered an opportunity to participate in Native Lens, a filmmaking program of Longhouse…