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Take the Ultimate Sesame Street Quiz!
April 2, 2012In preparation for the premiere of Being Elmo on April 5 and April 9 at 9 pm, here is a quiz for our audience, many of whom probably watched Sesame Street in the Mr. Hooper era, long before there even was an Elmo! Many of us learned to read, write, count, speak a few Spanish words, and get along with others with help from the denizens of Sesame Street, an urban…
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Filmmaker Marco Ricci Discusses The Reconstruction of Asa Carter
April 2, 2012ITVS’s Kate Sullivan Green sits down with Marco Ricci to talk about the documentary The Reconstruction of Asa Carter. Hundreds of thousands of readers have loved The Education of Little Tree, Forrest Carter's memoir of his life as a Cherokee orphan. It turns out, however, that the book was written by an infamous white supremacist, Ace Carter, who penned…
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Power to the Poets: Connect, Comment, and Collaborate
April 2, 2012A written- and spoken-word adventure, Power Poetry is the world’s first mobile poetry community for youth, a one-of-a-kind place where words become powerful through media and technology. Inspired by the documentary, To Be Heard, PowerPoetry.org is a place for poets to share their work, comment, and collaborate. Power Poetry isn’t just about poetry.…
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A Filmmaker’s Embrace of Nonlinear Storytelling
March 30, 2012Musa Syeed is one of the hottest up and coming filmmaking talents in the U.S. His work includes documentaries such as A Son's Sacrifice, Bronx Princess, and a narrative feature, Valley of Saints — which is currently on the festival circuit. He has also been experimenting with new, interactive forms of storytelling, and we asked him to write about his…
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IL Presents a Social Screening of You're Looking at Me Like I Live Here and I Don't
March 30, 2012The event will take place online this Sunday, April 1 at 10am PT / 1pm ET. Join a social screening of You're Looking At Me Like I Live Here And I Don't, with a panel of Alzheimer’s experts and share your own stories about how you have been impacted by the disease. The event, which takes place exclusively online, will feature special guests Scott Kirschenbaum,…