Press Releases

MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Independent Television Service are hosting a luncheon celebrating AMERICAN GRADUATE: Vamos A Logrario! (Let’s Make It Happen) with CPB President and CEO, Patricia Harrison, actors Aimee Garcia, Jeremy Ray Valdez, and Wilmer Valderrama and filmmaker of The Graduates/Los Graduados,…

Shrouded in mystery and long the subject of debate, the amazing story of Loreta Velazquez is one of the Civil War’s most gripping forgotten narratives. While the U.S. military may have recently lifted the ban on women in combat, Loreta Janeta Velazquez, a Cuban immigrant from New Orleans, was fighting in battle 150 years ago — one of the estimated 1000 women…

SAN FRANCISCO (April 19, 2013) – The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media and the Independent Television Service (ITVS), have partnered together in producing an educational program including five (5) kids short videos to be featured by the Women and Girls Lead campaign, a public media campaign by ITVS designed to celebrate, educate and activate…

(San Francisco, CA) — Nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Documentary Feature, The Invisible War is a groundbreaking investigative documentary about one of America’s most shameful and best kept secrets: the epidemic of rape within the U.S. military. The film paints a startling picture of the extent of the problem; today, a female soldier in combat…

(San Francisco, CA) – The Revolutionary Optimists reveals the work of Bengali visionary, Amlan Ganguly, a passionate former attorney who doesn’t just rescue slum children — he empowers them to become change agents, battling poverty and transforming their neighborhoods with dramatic results. Filmed over the course of three years, the film follows…