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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…
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What Makes a Good Work-in-Progress? Part 3: Late Production
January 7, 2013By N'Jeri EatonProgramming Manager, ITVSThe third and final installment of our Open Call “Work-in-Progress” series focuses on the determined filmmaking duo behind Give Up Tomorrow, whose dogged persistence in refining their work-in-progress finally resulted in their film being greenlit. Having successfully submitted to ITVS Open Call, they…
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What Makes a Good Work-in-Progress? Part 2: The Veteran Filmmaker
January 6, 2013The ITVS Open Call deadline is only five days away, making it the perfect time to read the next installment of our ‘work –in-progress’ series. Submitting an enticing ‘work-in-progress’ can be difficult, even for the veteran filmmaker. Today, we bring you As Goes Janesville’s Brad Lichtenstein, who despite having vast filmmaking experience, had to…