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Vote Early and Often for ITVS's Indies Showcase Audience Award
September 19, 2011The ITVS Indies Showcase is coming to a close on September 23, after streaming 20 of the organization's groundbreaking documentaries free online. To bring closure to the festival, viewers are encouraged to select a favorite in the always coveted Audience Award. At film festivals, the accolade that often most excites filmmakers is the Audience Award.…
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ITVS Joins Leading Bay Area Media Groups to Celebrate Teachers
September 19, 2011This past month, over 100 media-savy educators attended the first Bay Area Media Innovators in Education event in San Francisco. The event was co-hosted by ITVS, KQED, BAVC, and the San Francisco Film Society.At a time when school budgets are tight, it is rare for teachers to get treated to wine, gourmet treats, and free media content. But ITVS and four…
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The Judge and the General, Sunday on Global Voices
September 17, 2011The ITVS-funded documentary by Elizabeth Farnsworth airs Sunday, September 18 on Global Voices on the WORLD Channel. The Judge and the General reveals the transformation of Judge Juan Guzmán in Chile as he is assigned by judicial lottery to investigate the first criminal cases filed against former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. An international…
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Watch American Graduate's Too Important to Fail, Streaming now on PBS.org
September 16, 2011The program, which aired on Tavis Smiley Reports, examines one of the most disturbing aspects of the education crisis facing America today — the increased dropout rate among Black teenage males. The broadcast is currently streaming on PBS.org a part of American Graduate, a public media initiative supported by CPB to help local communities across America…
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This Weekend on Indies Showcase, Revisit Two Towns of Jasper
September 16, 2011Veteran ITVS filmmaker Marco Williams has a history of creating films that examine race relations between white and black Americans. Williams provided BTB with some background to his and Whitney Dow’s documentary Two Towns of Jasper, streaming free from September 17 – 19 on ITVS’s Indies Showcase. On September 21, 2011 Lawrence Russell Brewer, one of…