Press Releases

(San Francisco, CA)—Christopher Wong’s Whatever It Takes offers a fascinating inside look at the first year of the Bronx Center for Science and Mathematics (BCSM), a small public high school in the South Bronx headed by the idealistic Principal Edward Tom, an Asian American man who gave up a lucrative position as an executive with Saks Fifth Avenue for the…

Visit the companion website (San Francisco, CA) —The Eyes of Me presents an extraordinary look at four blind teenagers — two freshmen and two seniors — over the course of one year at the Texas School for the Blind in Austin. Distilled from over 250 hours of footage and using innovative animation, Keith Maitland’s acclaimed documentary The Eyes of Me will air…

Visit the companion website (San Francisco, CA)— Filmmaker Monika Navarro was 21 years old when she began making a film about her uncle Gino, a man who was deported from the U.S. and died in Tijuana, where he was then buried in an unmarked grave. Two months later, her uncle Augie was also deported; both had been legal U.S. residents, military veterans — and drug…

(San Francisco, CA) — Independent Television Service (ITVS) announced today that one of its acclaimed productions, The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, was nominated for a 2010 Academy Award® for Best Documentary Feature. Directed by Rick Goldsmith and Judith Ehrlich, the film will have its television premiere…

(San Francisco, CA)—The Independent Television Service (ITVS) is proud to announce that its co-production The Oath, a film by Laura Poitras, won the Excellence in Cinematography Award for U.S. Documentary at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. The film will have its television premiere later this year on the PBS primetime series POV (check local…