Press Releases

(San Francisco, CA) – ITVS, AIR, and Prairie Public Broadcasting announce a partnership to help boost support for transformative public media work with a new interactive documentary series to be distributed online and on public television through the Localore initiative. Created by independent producer Todd Melby, the documentary Black Gold…

Why would someone leave everything behind to devote their life to helping others? Director Steve Hoover explores that question in Blood Brother, the remarkable story of his longtime friend Rocky Braat, who did exactly that. Winner of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury and Audience Awards,the film premieres on Independent Lens,hosted by Stanley…

(San Francisco, CA) — A rare and intimate glimpse into the dynamic process of creating and launching new plays, Playwright: From Page to Stage follows two outstanding young playwrights through the writing, development, staging, rehearsal, and public performance of their plays. Over the course of three years, the dramatic parallel journeys of Rajiv…

(San Francisco, CA) — The latest film from legendary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman, At Berkeley is a revealing four-hour documentary about the University of California at Berkeley, the oldest and most prestigious member of a ten campus public education system and one of the finest research and teaching facilities in the world. Eschewing narration and…

(Lincoln, Neb.) — Injunuity is a unique mix of animation, music, and real thoughts from real people exploring our world from the Native American perspective. A breakthrough trans-media project in its own right, Injunuity filmmaker Adrian Baker (Hopi) has created this compelling content for the web, portable technologies, and public television.…