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Children Unite in Promises on ITVS Indies Showcase
August 2, 2011The documentary Promises began streaming free this past Sunday on ITVS Indies Showcase and will be available to watch free until the morning of Wednesday, August 3. What is it really like to live in Jerusalem? Promises offers touching and fresh insight into the Middle East conflict when filmmakers Justine Shapiro, B. Z. Goldberg, and Carlos Bolado…
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Filmmaker Notes from Orientation, Summer 2011
August 1, 2011Filmmaker Brad Lichtenstein attended ITVS’s latest producers orientation for Open Call funding and was kind enough to share his notes. We're producers. We're used to 13-hour days, right? Actually, I heard nary a complaint. Instead, what I heard was praise and genuine joy for an opportunity to be with fellow filmmakers in an atmosphere of celebration…
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Live Coverage of PBS at TCA Press Tour
July 30, 2011This weekend, PBS will present some of this year's lineup at the TCA Press Tour in Los Angeles. BTB is at The Beverly Hilton and will be relaying updates from the conference in a series of live posts.<a…
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Use Geo-Targeting Early and Often
July 29, 2011Managing Editor of Independent Lens Brooke Shelby Biggs offers advice on how to geo-target relevant information to your Facebook community. If your film is screening in Chicago, how much sense does it make to just post that fact on your film’s Facebook fan page, where most of your fans are probably not from Chicago? Not much, for a couple of reasons. First,…
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Filmmaker Byron Hurt Chats Live About Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes
July 27, 2011ITVS Indies Showcase will present its first live chat on Thursday, July 28 at 11am PT / 2pm ET with filmmaker Byron Hurt, whose acclaimed documentary Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes streams free from July 28 to 30.<a…