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The ITVS Indie Roundup
February 17, 2012A curated list of indie news and recommendations from ITVS's Rebecca Huval.The clock is ticking! Submissions for the 2012 Vimeo Festival + Awards are due Monday.Before The Interrupters premiered on Frontline Valentine’s Day, the bold star Ameena Matthews and co-producer Alex Kotlowitz made a fierce appearance on WNYC’s Takeaway. Stumped by your…
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The Moment for Independent Media: Bridging Cultural Understanding, Providing Fresh Perspectives
February 17, 2012Back in September of last year – around the 18th, to be exact – a student in a media class I teach blogged about something she was picking up on Twitter and in the blogosphere. Although she was pretty sure that “something” was happening, she wondered why she wasn’t reading or hearing more about it in media coverage. I recall tweeting back to her, “you can find…
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NEWLY FUNDED: ITVS is Pleased to Announce Funding for Lacey Schwartz’s Outside the Box
February 17, 2012ITVS recently approved funding for Outside the Box by filmmakers Lacey Schwartz (Producer/Director), Mehret Mandefro (Producer), and James Adolphus (Director).Outside the Box follows the life of Lacey Schwartz, a young woman who grew up in an upper-middle-class household with two loving Jewish parents. When she discovers that the man she's always…
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Black History Month? There's an App for That!
February 17, 2012Shukree Tilghman, the director of the Independent Lens film More Than a Month, speaks with Hari Sreenivasen from PBS NewsHour about the iPhone app, called More Than a Mapp, which his team has developed to crowdsource and showcase important African American historical sites. Much like the apps that help you find a nearby cup of coffee or ATM, the More Than A…
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A Determined Filmmaker Returns to Open Call
February 16, 2012Filmmaker Judith Helfand's latest documentary Cooked was one of a dozen projects accepted into ITVS's latest round of Open Call funding. She offered BTB this roundup of the producer's orientation, held last week in San Francisco.I started writing this amidst the din of the one week orientation for filmmakers funded through ITVS’ most recent Open Call.…