Press Releases

(San Francisco, CA) — Independent Television Service (ITVS), the leading funder of U.S. independent public television productions, announces the launch of the Why Poverty? series, a global broadcast of eight documentaries and 30 online shorts premiering November 2012 aimed at raising awareness about poverty in America and around the world.…

(San Francisco, CA) — Independent Television Service (ITVS), the leading funder of U.S. independent public television productions announced today that three of its acclaimed films have won four Emmys at the 33rd annual News and Documentary Emmy® Awards. The awards recognize outstanding achievement in broadcast journalism during the 2011 calendar…

(San Francisco, CA) — Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) presents his take on the gap between rich and poor Americans in Park Avenue: Money, Power & the American Dream. Gibney contends that America’s richest citizens have “rigged the game in their favor,” and created…

(San Francisco, CA) — Following the international hit The Boy who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan, Phil Grabsky’s The Boy Mir - Ten Years in Afghanistan tracks cheeky, enthusiastic Mir from a childish eight to a fully grown seventeen-year-old.  Over this decade, Grabsky follows Mir as he journeys into early adulthood in one of the toughest places on earth,…

(San Francisco, CA) — Independent Television Service (ITVS) announced today the rollout of its second year of documentary broadcasts in support of the Women and Girls Lead campaign, a multiyear public media initiative to focus, educate, and connect citizens worldwide in support of the issues facing women and girls. The new slate of programs launches…