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FUTURESTATES Profile: Barry Jenkins
February 24, 2011ITVS online series will premiere at SXSW Film Festival Last week, we announced the site launch for the second season of FUTURESTATES, which premieres next month at the SXSW Film Festival. Now, we turn our filmmaker profile to the Bay Area cult favorite, Barry Jenkins. The filmmaker’s short, Remigration, studies a futuristic San Francisco that is…
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Celebrate Diversity with America Ferrera & Independent Lens
February 23, 2011IL host reminds us that everyday is heritage day There is a heritage or history month for practically every ethnicity, race, and identity. Throughout February, we on BTB have been highlighting documentaries by and about filmmakers of color, in honor of Black History Month. From NBPC’s AfroPop Series to the Independent Lens doc When I Rise featuring the…
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Notes from Orientation 2011: A Filmmaker’s Take
February 23, 2011Doc filmmaker Reuben Atlas reflects on ITVS’ latest producers orientation for Open Call fundingI heard the letters I-T-V-S for the first time about three years ago, sitting in the audience at a panel on documentary financing. One of the panelists, an Oscar winner, had just responded to the question of how he financed his film by holding up his MasterCard.…
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The Ultimate William S. Burroughs Quiz
February 22, 2011Doc behind eccentric writer airs tonight on Independent Lens What do you know about William Seward Burroughs, the man? Tonight on Independent Lens, we premiere Yony Leyser's wonderfully intimate William S. Burroughs: A Man Within, which differentiates the larger-than-life Bull Lee myth from the real, shy, insecure, irascible human being he was…
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ITVS Announces Five-Year Investment from Ford Foundation’s JustFilms Program
February 22, 2011Program will bring $1 million a year to independent producersITVS is delighted to announce it will continue to find and fund the highest-quality international documentaries and bring them to millions of U.S. television and online viewers with a new five-year investment from Ford Foundation’s JustFilms program. The funding will provide $1 million a…