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Music and Movies Save Mountains
May 27, 2010As we watched the sold-out crowd in Nashville's Ryman Auditorium rise to its feet while Dave Matthews, Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Kathy Mattea, Alison Krauss, Patty Loveless, Big Kenny, and several other musicians joined their voices together to raise awareness for the issue of mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia, it dawned on us: as of today,…
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Hey Filmmakers - The LINCS Deadline is on June 18th
May 27, 2010Hey filmmakers — the LINCS deadline is on June 18, so if you haven't already contacted a potential station partner, now is the time to do so. Do you have questions about LINCS funding and how to successfully partner with a public television station? Recently ITVS Director of Programming Erica Deiparine-Sugars and LINCS Production Manager Robby Fahey…
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Lessons from the IndiesLab: Digital Survey in Review
May 27, 2010This month, IndiesLab is launching a new feature, “Lessons from the Lab,” a regular blog with new marketplace data and observations about what’s working and what’s not in the digital space for indies. This month, we are building on the knowledge gleaned from our 2009 ITVS Digital Survey which polled nearly 1,000 independent filmmakers about their…
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More Than a Game
May 26, 2010It's been reported that the digital game industry is now bigger than the film industry, and dollar for dollar, this has been debated. What can no longer be debated is that, eyeball for eyeball, more people now play games than watch films. A study released by a marketing research group reported that more Americans play video games than go to the movies.…
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Youth Activists Step Up in New Orleans
May 25, 2010Part of the miraculous story of the neighborhood called Versailles in New Orleans rising from the floodwaters to rebuild itself and sustain its citizens after Hurricane Katrina was the unprecedented leadership role that the younger generation took. Traditionally, the Vietnamese culture in both Vietnam and in this community’s adopted home in New…