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  1. Women and Girls Lead Takes Off at PBS Annual Meeting

    May 20, 2011

    Women and Girls Lead, the multi-year public media campaign to amplify the voices of women and girls worldwide, officially lifted off Thursday. The campaign was launched during a breakfast hosted by ITVS and CPB during this week's PBS Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida. Oscar-winning actress Geena Davis and CPB President and CEO Patricia Harrison broke…

  2. Live Chat with Shelby Knox and the Filmmakers

    April 19, 2011

    The Education of Shelby Knox is the story of a self-described "good Southern Baptist girl" who becomes an unlikely advocate for comprehensive sex ed. The ITVS-funded doc, which aired on P.OV. back in 2005, is being revisited today through a live chat on P.O.V.’s website. Our friends from the series have allowed us to host the discussion on BTB. The chat will…

  3. Important Changes to the LINCS Initiative

    April 7, 2011

    LINCS is now accepting applications year-round, as well as seeking projects with transmedia elements.  Independent Producers and Public Television Stations currently face similar challenges as they respond to a rapidly shifting media landscape. The evolution of new ways to create and distribute media accompanied by shrinking resources has made…

  4. Notes from Orientation 2011: A Filmmaker’s Take

    February 23, 2011

    Doc filmmaker Reuben Atlas reflects on ITVS’ latest producers orientation for Open Call fundingI heard the letters I-T-V-S for the first time about three years ago, sitting in the audience at a panel on documentary financing. One of the panelists, an Oscar winner, had just responded to the question of how he financed his film by holding up his MasterCard.…

  5. Last Train Home Picks Up Speed in December

    December 27, 2010

     The ITVS-funded Last Train home has been earning plenty of recognition this past month. The film earned top prize in the documentary category at the LA Film Critics Association and was selected in a cultural film exchange effort by the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities and the Sundance Institute in New York. Read more about the program…

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