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  1. Now Streaming on Indies Showcase: Girls Like Us

    August 24, 2011

    Emmy Award-winning documentary from Jane C. Wagner and Tina DiFeliciantonio takes a disarming look into the lives of teenage girls, working to shape their identities in the ’90s. Girls Like Us streams free until Friday, August 26, as part of ITVS's Indies Showcase. An ethnically diverse group of four working class girls strut, flirt, and testify in this…

  2. Vote for ITVS's Women Lead Panel at SXSW 2012!

    August 23, 2011

    SXSW Panel Picker allows the community to have a significant voice in programming conference activities for SXSW 2012.  Make your voice heard by voting for our Women Lead Panel which will focus on public media in the 21st Century. Vote now!  Thanks.Women are transforming the landscape of public media through innovation, audience engagement and new forms…

  3. The FCC Report on Information Needs of Communities: A Moment of Truth for Public Media: Part I

    August 22, 2011

    ITVS President & CEO Sally Jo Fifer responds to the FCC’s significant report on the impact of technology on the media landscape.How will 21st century media serve the public interest and local communities?  That’s the question a number of recent reports have tackled, most significantly the summer publication of the Federal Communication…

  4. Now Streaming on Indies Showcase: Please Vote for Me

    August 19, 2011

    The documentary by filmmaker Weijun Chen is streaming free until Saturday, August 20, as part of ITVS's Indies Showcase.Please Vote for Me chronicles the intensity behind eight-year-old students in an elementary school in China as they campaign for class monitor. Check out the film's trailer below...

  5. Paula Kerger on Public Media’s Future

    August 18, 2011

    PBS President and CEO Paula Kerger, said journalistic partnerships were an "exciting development for public media."Last week, BTB featured PMC’s Ken Ikeda — in our first of several profiles of public media figures to take their temperature on the evolving environment. Up this week, PBS President and CEO Paula Kerger, who was kind enough to speak to us…

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