Press Releases

(San Francisco, CA, May 3, 2011)— This May, Global Voices and the WORLD Channel celebrate Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month with four documentaries that highlight voices and stories from across Asia. Starting with Please Vote For Me from China, the month continues on to Japan with 4 and Young Yakuza, and comes to a close with New Year Baby, set in…

(San Francisco, CA, April 25, 2011)—Today, the Independent Television Service (ITVS) announced the lineup for the fourth season of Global Voices, the international documentary television series on the WORLD channel. The first original, 26-week series to launch on WORLD, Global Voices presents a unique lineup of programming that introduces U.S.…

The Independent Television Service (ITVS) announced today that three of its acclaimed films, Reel Injun: On the Trail of the Hollywood Indian, The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, and The Lord Is Not On Trial Here Today, are among the 39 recipients of the George Foster Peabody Awards for 2010. The Peabody Awards are the…

(San Francisco, CA, March 30, 2011)— Two Spirits interweaves the tragic story of a mother’s loss of her son with a revealing look at the largely unknown history of a time when the world wasn’t simply divided into male and female, and many Native American cultures held places of honor for people of integrated genders. Powerful and moving, Lydia Nibley’s Two…

God Willing begins with a letter from the filmmaker’s nephew: “Dear Family - I’ve gone off with the missionaries, the bearded ones remember? To serve the Lord. Don’t fill out a missing person’s report. The Lord comes first - Daniel.” God Willing is the wrenching story of families who have lost their sons and daughters to the Jim Roberts Group, a nomadic…