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Independent Lens Releases Stories for Justice Impact Report
Audience data shows documentaries increased understanding about the inequities in the U.S. justice system
Announcing the ITVS Humanities Documentary Development Fellows
Helping pandemic-affected independent documentary filmmakers develop high-potential projects
Recent Posts
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Independent Lens Raises Awareness of Harms Caused by Kentucky's Persistent Felony Offender Law
June 30, 2022Independent Lens and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Louisville Courier Journal (LCJ) raised awareness of Kentucky's Persistent Felony Offender (PFO) through a collaboration between independent filmmakers and journalists. The investigative series drew a link between the law's enhanced sentencing terms to the state’s high and growing prison…
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The Supervising Producer Partnership: How CJ Hunt Found the Arc for "Neutral Ground" While Working with ITVS
April 12, 2022How do filmmakers and ITVS supervising producers work together in their back-and-forth partnership?To best explain CJ Hunt's partnership with ITVS, we wanted to have him in the same room with three-time Emmy-nominated ITVS Supervising Producer Shana Swanson to explore what it meant to work together as funder and maker. Hunt made his feature film debut…
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ITVS Names Antonia Carew-Watts Vice President of Business Affairs
November 8, 2021ITVS is pleased to welcome Antonia Carew-Watts as our new Vice President of Business Affairs. In her new role, she will lead a team focusing on strategic deals and relationships with the San Francisco nonprofit’s partners and oversee business and legal affairs across ITVS units, brands, multiplatform assets and events. In addition, Carew-Watts will…
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Seeking Justice: Belly of the Beast’s Impactful Engagement Strategy
November 2, 2021Belly of the Beast, which premiered on Independent Lens in November 2020, exposes illegal sterilizations and reproductive injustices in California prisons. The film follows Kelli Dillon, who was involuntarily sterilized at the age of 24 while incarcerated, as she teams up with human rights lawyer Cynthia Chandler to fight for reproductive…
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Remembering Michael Shiro
October 29, 2021Remembering the life and impact of longtime ITVS Controller Michael Shiro, who died age 59 on October 22, 2021.
