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  1. Filmmaker Adi Lavy Reflects on Day One of Open Call Orientation

    July 27, 2009

    ITVS’s Open Call provides finishing funds for single non-fiction or animation public television programs on any subject and from any viewpoint. Last week, ITVS hosted 17 filmmakers who were recently awarded Open Call funding. Adi Lavy, filmmaker of SUN KISSED, shares her thoughts about her first day at ITVS.Our journey in the public television maze is…

  2. Apply for ITVS Open Call Funding: Deadline July 31

    July 6, 2009

    Looking for film funding? ITVS funds, distributes and promotes new programs primarily for public television. We work with independent producers to create and present programs that take creative risks, advance issues and represent points of view not usually seen on public or commercial television. Open Call provides finishing funds for single…

  3. Watch GARRISON KEILLOR Tonight on American Masters

    July 1, 2009

    "This documentary, created for PBS' American Masters series, is an amiable portrait of this somewhat enigmatic radio performer..." - San Francisco Chronicle Garrison Keillor is an author, a highly sought public speaker and is credited with reviving the lost art of live radio. His weekly program, A Prairie Home Companion, began in 1974 and has more than…

  4. Open Call Recipients: Jason DaSilva and Leigh DaSilva, Filmmakers of WHEN I WALK

    June 22, 2009

    ITVS’s Open Call provides finishing funds for single non-fiction or animation public television programs on any subject and from any viewpoint. Projects must have begun production as evidenced by a work-in-progress video. Check out the clip below with filmmakers Jason DaSilva and Leigh DaSilva, who received Open Call funds for their film WHEN I WALK,…

  5. Open Call Recipient: Julie Wyman, Filmmaker of STRONG!

    June 17, 2009

    ITVS funds, distributes and promotes new programs produced by independent producers primarily for public television and beyond. Julie Wyman produced and directed STRONG!, which looks at weightlifter Cheryl Haworth's struggle to defend her champion status as her lifetime weightlifting career inches towards its inevitable end. Wyman received…

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