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San Francisco Remembers The Blunder Years
August 10, 2011The Blunder Years is an evening of live performance and video where Bay Area filmmakers, writers, musicians, and actors show/perform pieces influenced by the television and movies of their teenage years. The event is scheduled for the evening of August 12 at Z-Space in San Francisco. All donations will go towards BAVC's The Factory — an advanced video…
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2011 FUTURESTATES Audience Award Winner on the Big Screen in NYC
August 9, 2011In partnership with Telegraph21 and Icarus Films, ITVS is pleased to announce an evening dedicated to the 2011 FUTURESTATES Audience Award Winner Kimi Takesue at the Big Screen Plaza in NYC on Friday, August 19 from 5 to 7pm. The evening will start with the 2011 FUTURESTATES Audience Award-winning film, That Which Once Was, followed by a screening of…
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Live Chat on Globalization and Poor Working Conditions in China
August 8, 2011Filmmaker Micha Peled’s China Blue begins its free stream on Friday, August 12, as part of ITVS’s Indies Showcase. To kick off the online premiere, PBS NewsHour’s Hari Sreenivasan will moderate a live chat on BTB on Friday at 11amPT / 2pm ET with Peled and others, focusing the discussion on globalization and poor working conditions in…
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This Year’s TCA Was All About Elmo
August 5, 2011The documentary Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey was a hit at last weekend’s TCA Press Tour in Los Angeles. The film explains the fascination behind Elmo’s creator Kevin Clash and begins its theatrical run this October. The film will also air on Independent Lens in April 2012. The hyper-cuddly Elmo was on hand at the Beverly Hilton to take photos with (and…
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Live Coverage of PBS at TCA Press Tour
July 30, 2011This weekend, PBS will present some of this year's lineup at the TCA Press Tour in Los Angeles. BTB is at The Beverly Hilton and will be relaying updates from the conference in a series of live posts.<a…