Press Releases
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Adama Premieres on the WORLD Channel November 6, 2011
October 19, 2011(San Francisco) — On March 24th, 2005, Adama Bah, a 16-year-old Muslim girl, awoke at dawn to discover nearly a dozen armed government agents inside her family’s apartment in East Harlem. She was arrested and taken to a maximum-security juvenile detention center in Pennsylvania. An FBI document leaked to the press mysteriously identified Adama as a…
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Have You Heard From Johannesburg, a Landmark Five-Part Series About the Global Anti-Apartheid Movement, Premieres on Independent Lens in January 2012
October 14, 2011CONTACT 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) – Filmed throughout the world over the course of more than ten years, Have You Heard From Johannesburg…
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Nobel Peace Prize Winners Come to Public Television in October
October 11, 2011San Francisco, CA—(October, 11, 2011)—The Independent Television Service (ITVS), PBS, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced that two of the three women honored with the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize will be featured subjects of in-depth documentaries airing on public television in October as part of “Women and Girls Lead,” a public media…
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ITVS Community Cinema, Ladies Home Journal, Thirteen, and Fork Films to Host Online Screening Featuring Women, War & Peace, a Five Part PBS Miniseries About the Role of Women in Peace and Conflict
September 27, 2011(San Francisco, CA) — What if you looked at war as though women mattered? What if you looked at peace as though women mattered? These two questions are at the heart of a new five-part, five-hour series, Women, War & Peace, a comprehensive global media initiative on the changing roles of women in war and peace narrated by actors Matt Damon, Geena Davis,…
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Geena Davis Launches First Global Symposium, Focuses Conversation on Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women and Girls
September 23, 2011(New York, NY) — On September 23, 2011, the Independent Television Service (ITVS), the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, and the Global Partnerships Forum hosted the First Global Symposium on Gender in Media at the Scandinavia House in New York. Nearly 200 distinguished guests attended the event to hear opening remarks from Academy Award® winning…