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ITVS in the News
March 13, 2012A sampling of coverage from Current, The Huffington Post, and more …Current: Indie docs lose viewers, carriage as they're moved to Thursdays The shift of Independent Lens from Tuesdays to Thursdays this season has created ratings and carriage woes for the indie-doc showcase and highlighted two often-conflicting objectives of programmers: winning…
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Women and Girls Lead Presents a Social Screening of Taking Root
March 13, 2012Join us for an online social screening of Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai this Wednesday, March 14th at 1pm PT/4pm ET. The event, which takes place exclusively online, will feature special guests Lisa Merton, director of Taking Root, Kelly Blynn, co-coordinator of 350.org, and Stephen Millls, director of Greenbelt Movement US. Participants…
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ITVS Attends MEG 2012 in Göteborg, Sweden
March 13, 2012ITVS held court at the inaugural MEG 2012 conference, an event focused on creative approaches to content development, journalism, and entertainment. On March 8th and 9th, I attended a new conference: Mediedagarna i Göteborg (Media Days Göteborg) or "MEG" for short. MEG was designed to attract media professionals from television, newspaper,…
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New Partnership Reimagines Documentary Storytelling on the Web
March 12, 2012ITVS has partnered with Mozilla, the Tribeca Film Institute, BAVC, and the Center for Social Media to create the Living Docs Project — a new film community inspired by our original collaboration with Mozilla last October. Launching Monday, the Living Docs Project brings together documentary filmmakers, developers, funders, and the audience to make…
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A FUTURESTATES Wish For The Future
March 9, 2012It's time for SXSW and the buzz-heavy festival is ramping up this weekend with thousands attendees, and hundreds of panels, meet ups, screenings, and more. FUTURESTATES is hosting a panel called Prototyping the Future, where we'll be announcing an exciting new project.FUTURESTATES is co-producing a new participatory storytelling project from…