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  1. Positively Groundbreaking: Cinematic Reflections on World AIDS Day

    December 1, 2010

     Over the years, ITVS has been responsible for producing ahead-of-their-time films about HIV-AIDS and LGBT issues. In honor of World AIDS Day, we wanted to highlight a few of the documentaries that have helped raise awareness about one of the most destructive epidemics in recorded history.   Lance Loud! A Death in an American Family Decades before…

  2. Several ITVS Films Honored by IDA

    November 30, 2010

     The winners of the International Documentary Association’s 2010 IDA Documentary Awards were announced this week with several ITVS films earning high praise, including: Waste Land ***Airing this season on Independent Lens The IDA Pare Lorentz Award, in homage to the pioneering filmmaker’s legacy, was awarded to Lucy Walker for Waste Land. The…

  3. Legalities of Hip-Hop Front and Center in D.C.

    November 29, 2010

    Michon Boston is Community Cinema’s regional outreach coordinator in Washington, D.C. She helped organize a recent panel about legal issues raised in the documentary Copyright Criminals and filed this report. Earlier this year, Community Cinema D.C. partnered with Words Beats & Life Inc. for its presentation of Copyright Criminals. WBL Inc.…

  4. In the News: The Latest on ITVS Programs

    November 26, 2010

    Visit our pressroom to find additional coverage of ITVS programs.   Deep Down Film Brings Kentucky's Mountaintop Removal Battle to PBS Viewers Deep Down is an exceptional film, and a profoundly informative one, and should be required viewing for every American in our 48 states that burns coal--especially the new junior senator from Kentucky, Rand…

  5. CNN’S Hero Award Goes to Independent Lens Subject

    November 25, 2010

    Last week CNN honored Anuradha Koirala with their Hero of the Year award. Koirala is one of the foremost activists working to abolish sex trafficking in Nepal and India. She was also one of the subjects featured in the 2004 Independent Lens film The Day My God Died. Andrew Levine directed that documentary and shared his thoughts with BTB on this year’s…

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