Press Releases
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We Were Here, a Heart-Wrenching Look at the Early Days of the AIDS Crisis in San Francisco as Told by the Survivors, Premieres on Independent Lens on Thursday, June 14, 2012
May 2, 2012(San Francisco, CA) — Both inspiring and devastating, David Weissman’s We Were Here revisits the arrival in San Francisco of what was called the “Gay Plague” in the early 1980s. It illuminates the profound personal and community issues raised by the AIDS epidemic as well as the broad political and social upheavals it unleashed. It offers a cathartic…
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ITVS Announces Production of American Graduate Latino Programming to Address Latino High School Dropout Crisis
May 1, 2012[San Francisco, CA May 1, 2012] — Nationwide, Latino students face an increased risk of dropping out of school. Forty-one percent of Latinos ages 20 and older do not have a high school diploma, compared to 23 percent of blacks and 14 percent of whites. To address the growing high school dropout crisis among Latinos, the largest and youngest minority group in…
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Every Day as a Holiday Premieres on Public Television in May 2012 in Conjunction with Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and Memorial Day
April 16, 2012(San Francisco, CA) — While growing up in suburban New Jersey, Chinese-American filmmaker Theresa Loong knew little about her father’s past. Then, one day she discovered his secret diary, written when he was a teenager and POW in a Japanese work camp during World War II. In it, he vowed to make “every day a holiday” if he ever survived. Told through Loong’s…
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Doc Examining the Local and International Efforts to Stop Kony and the Lords Resistance Army in Africa Opens the 5th Season of the Global Voices Series
April 11, 2012(San Francisco, CA, April 11, 2012) — Today, the Independent Television Service (ITVS) announces the lineup for the fifth season of Global Voices, the international documentary television series airing on the WORLD channel with select episodes available online on PBS Video. Showcasing documentaries from Uganda, Indonesia, Russia, Chile, and…
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Summer Pasture, a Rare and Intimate Glimpse into the Life of a Nomadic Tibetan Family, Premieres on Independent Lens on Thursday, May 10, 2012, at 10pm
March 26, 2012(San Francisco, CA) — Filmed in the austere, beautiful, and windswept high grasslands of eastern Tibet, Summer Pasture provides a rare and intimate glimpse into the life of a young nomadic couple and their infant daughter during a time of great transition. With unprecedented access to a place seldom visited by the outside world, the film transports…