Press Releases

(San Francisco, CA) — Welcome to India’s Barefoot College, where rural, poor, and often illiterate women from around the world are offered the rare opportunity to receive an education that teaches them how to make their communities self-reliant and sustainable. Rafea, a beautiful, strong-willed 32-year-old Jordanian mother of four, is traveling…

(San Francisco, CA) — Sundance Award-winning documentary Love Free or Die will premiere on the new season of Independent Lens, which returns to PBS this fall on Mondays at 10 PM. Directed by Macky Alston, the film looks at church and state, love and marriage, faith and identity — and one man’s struggle to dispel the notion that God’s love has limits. Love Free…

CONTACT Voleine Amilcar, ITVS, 415-356-8383 x 244, voleine_amilcar@itvs.org Mary Lugo, 770-623-8190, lugo@negia.net Cara White 843-881-1480 cara.white@mac.com For downloadable images, visit http://pressroom.pbs.org(San Francisco, CA) — Brad Lichtenstein’s As Goes Janesville reports from ground zero of the recession-ridden heartland —…

(San Francisco, CA) — Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, a Show of Force LLC and Fugitive Films production developed in association with the Independent Television Service (ITVS), is a special television event that uses in-the-moment investigations and emotionally explosive storytelling to confront the greatest…

(San Francisco, CA) — A Palestinian collaborator and his family are branded as traitors and forced to flee to Israel; but what happens when they get there? The Collaborator and His Family follows the El-Akel family over a two-and-a-half year period as they try to face their new fate. Ibrahim El-Akel was a collaborator with the Israeli security services for…