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Transformative Transmedia for Saving the Planet
April 8, 2011From original online mapping projects to Second Life, ITVS Interactive is constantly finding innovative and creative ways to draw new viewers to Public Media 2.0. Senior Content Producer Cathy Fischer reports on the subject and has the resources to back it up.I recently moderated a panel at the San Francisco Green Film Festival entitled Transmedia in a…
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Future Fridays Presents Suzi Yoonessi
April 8, 2011The filmmaker’s short Spring of Sorrow is streaming Friday on PBS.org. Director Suzi Yoonessi describes how the environmental reality of Mono Lake informs her futuristic fairy tale and how she used the Persian stories from her childhood to bring a cautionary tale about climate change to life. Watch Spring of Sorrow now on PBS.org as part of Future Fridays.…
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Update from The National Conference for Media Reform
April 7, 2011Thousands will convene this weekend in Boston to share ideas about the future of media, technology, and democracy at the 2011 NCMR. ITVS Marketing & Communications Manger Steve Goldbloom is at the conference and will be providing updates on BTB. Greetings from Boston! The NCMR kicks off bright and early Friday morning with a live broadcast of…
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Important Changes to the LINCS Initiative
April 7, 2011LINCS is now accepting applications year-round, as well as seeking projects with transmedia elements. Independent Producers and Public Television Stations currently face similar challenges as they respond to a rapidly shifting media landscape. The evolution of new ways to create and distribute media accompanied by shrinking resources has made…
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A Love Story Set Within an Environmental Nightmare
April 7, 2011Filmmaker Bennett Cohen sets his FUTURESTATES short The Dig on the verge of an environmental collapse. The film is streaming free today on FUTURESTATES.tv. As the world faces an environmental apocalypse, a group of archaeologists venture into a toxic desert wasteland, determined to unearth a lost civilization. Can this ancient disaster help them…