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ITVS Backs Award at the 2013 Pixel Market
July 25, 2013ITVS and Power to the Pixel (PttP) announce the ITVS Impact Pixel Market prize for the best social impact project.ITVS is excited to partner with this year’s Pixel Market in launching a new award for the best social impact project. Over $4,500 (£3,000) in development funding will be awarded to the winning fiction or non-fiction project that makes a…
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Don't Miss the ITVS Open Call Deadline
June 20, 2013The Independent Television Service (ITVS) seeks applications for the Open Call funding initiative. Open Call provides completion funds for single nonfiction public television programs on any subject, and from any viewpoint. Projects must have begun production as evidenced by a work-in-progress video. Open Call funding is only available to…
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Newly Funded: ITVS is Pleased to Announce Funding for Deej
May 17, 2013ITVS recently approved funding for Deej, a documentary by Robert Rooy (Director/Producer) and David James Savarese (Producer).Deej is the story of DJ Savarese (“Deej”), a gifted, young writer and an advocate for nonspeaking autistics. Once a “profoundly disabled” foster kid seemingly on the fast track to nowhere, DJ is now a first year college student…
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Newly Funded: ITVS is Pleased to Announce Funding for Almost There
May 8, 2013ITVS recently approved funding for Almost There, a documentary by filmmakers Dan Rybicky (Director/Producer) and Aaron Wickenden (Director/Producer). Outsider artist Peter Anton, 82, has spent decades obsessively chronicling his rollercoaster of a life into a massive, illustrated autobiography, and nothing — not poverty, isolation, or…
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AIR and ITVS Partner Up for Next Step in Pubmedia Innovation
January 28, 2013Last week, ITVS and AIR, Inc. announced a partnership that will boost support for transformative public media work through Locolore, a multi-million dollar initiative designed to help spark a new vision of 21st century public media.Localore provides more than a million dollars in CPB funding to 10 lead producers who work with local public stations to…