Press Releases

  1. These Amazing Shadows Premieres on Independent Lens on Thursday, December 29, 2011, at 10pm

    November 10, 2011

    (San Francisco, CA) — What do the films Casablanca, Blazing Saddles, and West Side Story have in common? Besides being popular, they have also been deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” by the Library of Congress and listed in the National Film Registry, a roll call of American cinema treasures reflecting the diversity of…

  2. The Alliance of Women Film Journalists Joins Women and Girls Leadership Campaign on PBS this Fall

    November 7, 2011

    (New York, NY) — The Independent Television Service (ITVS) announces a partnership with the Alliance of Women Film Journalists, Inc. (AWFJ) — an association of professional female movie critics, reporters and feature writers working in print, broadcast and online media — for its the three-year national PBS campaign Women and Girls Lead. AWFJ joins the…

  3. ITVS’s Global Perspective Project Seeks to Fund Documentaries about the Progress of Women and Girls Worldwide

    November 7, 2011

    (San Francisco, CA) — The ITVS’s Global Perspective Project (GPP) is seeking documentary submissions featuring international stories and perspectives not seen on U.S. television through its International Call initiative. Launched in 2005, the GPP has presented films from nearly 90 nations and funded more than 150 award-winning productions,…

  4. Documentary About the National AIDS Memorial to Air Nationally on PBS on World Aids Day - December 1, 2011

    October 31, 2011

    (San Francisco, CA) — More Americans have been lost to AIDS than in all the US wars since 1900; however, few know about the existence of the National AIDS Memorial, a seven-acre grove hidden in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. The Grove, a film by Andy Abrahams Wilson and Tom Shepard, chronicles this garden’s transformation from neglected eyesore to…

  5. Eight International Nonfiction Productions Receive Funding From ITVS’s Global Perspective Project

    October 20, 2011

    San Francisco, CA— (October 20, 2011)— The Independent Television Service (ITVS), leading funder of U.S. independent television productions, announced that it has contracted with eight international documentary projects from its 2011 International Call as part of the Global Perspective Project. This year’s selections provide extraordinary…