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ITVS Takes Engagement Behind Bars and into Schools
September 24, 2010As we gear up for another season of Community Cinema, BTB is highlighting some recent coverage of how this program has been adapted to engage inmates in San Francisco and Los Angeles. These pilot initiatives are furthering our mission of reaching underserved communities, including the incarcerated. This past year, Community Cinema screenings were…
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Pitching at IFP this week?
September 23, 2010IFP kicks off this week, and if you're already en route to New York's premiere indie filmmaker gathering, you've probably been working on your pitch for weeks. While you may already have your iPad loaded with a bevy of digital delights to wow whichever executive you're pursuing, there's still much to be said for the old-fashioned approach to pitching. In…
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San Francisco Goes Parking with ITVS
September 22, 2010Many thanks to all the Bay Area residents who made the trip to the parking lot of The Good Hotel at 7th and Minna street last Friday night for this season’s launch of Independent Lens and free outdoor screening of The Parking Lot Movie. The event was part of the annual Park(ing) Day, which encourages citizens to turn metered parking spaces into public spaces for…
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Pushing the Elephant Goes to DC
September 21, 2010This past Wednesday and Thursday, September 15th and 16th, the filmmakers of Pushing the Elephant (PTE), Beth Davenport and Elizabeth Mandel, and their main subject, Rose Mapendo, traveled to Washington DC — in cooperation with ITVS — to raise awareness around violence against women and girls internationally. Also along were Rose's brother,…
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P.O.V. Explores America Post 9/11
September 20, 2010Tuesday night on P.O.V., tune into The Oath, the second installment in a trilogy about America post-9/11. The first film, My Country, My Country, documented the U.S. occupation of Iraq from the perspective of an Iraqi family. The third film will focus on domestic surveillance. Filmed in Yemen, The Oath is a family drama about two men whose fateful encounter…