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Watch an Exclusive Online Screening of Women, War & Peace on Thursday at 4:30pm PT
September 28, 2011On Thursday, September 29, 4:30pm PT / 6:30pm CT / 7:30pm ET— ITVS Community Cinema, Ladies Home Journal, THIRTEEN, and Fork Films will present an exclusive online preview screening of Women War & Peace on ITVS’s Livestream channel in advance of its television premiere on PBS. The film is the first broadcast in ITVS's Women and Girls Lead…
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NEWLY FUNDED: ITVS is Pleased to Announce Funding for Brad Lichtenstein’s Doc, As Goes Janesville
September 28, 2011ITVS recently approved funding for As Goes Janesville, which tells the the story of what happens when GM leaves Janesville, Wisconsin. From laid off workers to political and business leaders, the documentary shows how a community rebuilds and reinvents itself. As Goes Janesville follows the lives of dislocated workers, business entrepreneurs and…
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Art & Copy Wins News and Doc Emmy Award
September 27, 2011The documentary by filmmaker Doug Pray received an Emmy Award on Monday for Outstanding Arts and Culture Programming.Art & Copy has won a News and Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Arts and Culture Program. The documentary, which aired last season on Independent Lens, reveals the work and wisdom of some of the most influential advertising…
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Updates on The Judge and the General
September 27, 2011The award winning documentary The Judge and the General recently broadcast on Global Voices and is currently streaming on PBS.org through October 9. BTB recently caught up with filmmaker Elizabeth Farnsworth for an update.The Judge and the General reveals the transformation of Judge Juan Guzmán in Chile as he is assigned by judicial lottery to…
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World Mourns Passing of Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai
September 26, 2011Wangari Maathai, the first environmentalist and African woman to win the Nobel Prize, passed away while having treatment for ovarian cancer on Monday. Wangari Maathai, the first environmentalist and African woman to win the Nobel Prize, passed away on Monday while having treatment for ovarian cancer. Maathai was the founder of Kenya's Green Belt…