Press Releases

  1. ITVS-Funded Documentary Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience Receives Academy Award® Nomination for Best Documentary Feature

    January 24, 2008

    (San Francisco, CA)—Independent Television Service (ITVS) announced today that one of its acclaimed films, OPERATION HOMECOMING: Writing the Wartime Experience, a Documentary Group production for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), a co-production of the Independent Television Service (ITVS) and a presentation of WETA, was nominated…

  2. Iron Ladies of Liberia to have its broadcast premiere on the Emmy Award–winning PBS series Independent Lens on Tuesday, March 18, 2008

    January 17, 2008

    Visit the companion Website >> (San Francisco, CA)—After nearly two decades of brutal civil war, Liberia was a nation ready for change. In January 2006, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was inaugurated president, immediately earning a place in history as the first woman ever elected president of an African nation. Since her victory, President…

  3. Fatworld: Online Game Explores America’s Obesity Crisis

    January 14, 2008

    CONTACT: Voleine Amilcar, 415-356-8383 x 244, voleine_amilcar@itvs.orgVisit the website (San Francisco, CA)— ITVS Interactive (Independent Television Service) and PBS’s Emmy® Award–winning weekly series Independent Lens today published FATWORLD, an online video game created by Atlanta-based independent game studio Persuasive Games, about…

  4. Banished Reveals Shameful Chapter in U.S. History: The Racial Cleansing of Dozens of Towns

    December 28, 2007

    Visit the companion Website >> (San Francisco, CA)—BANISHED, a film revealing a shameful yet little-known chapter in the history of race relations in America will have its television premiere on the Emmy Award-winning PBS series Independent Lens, hosted by Terrence Howard, on Tuesday, February 19 at 10pm (check local listings). From the 1860s…

  5. Macky Alston’s Hard Road Home to Air on PBS’s Independent Lens on February 26, 2008

    December 28, 2007

    Visit the companion Website >> (San Francisco, CA) —Odds are that if you go to prison and are lucky enough to get out, you’ll be going back some time soon. When Julio Medina was incarcerated, he was a drug-dealing gang leader who ought to have died countless times. When he was freed 12 years later, he was a changed man. Upon his release from prison, Julio…