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Hope for Haiti Now Telethon Raises $58 Million in Donations
January 25, 2010Last Friday night, public television stations, along with other networks, online broadcasters, and cable television stations across the nation and around the world joined together to air the commercial-free broadcast of the global telethon, Hope For Haiti Now. So far, more than $58 million has been raised –– and this figure is expected to grow since…
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ITVS International: Application for Film Funding; Deadline February 5
January 25, 2010ITVS International Call enables independent producers from outside of the United States to create documentaries for U.S. television. Through the International Call, storytellers from other countries introduce U.S. audiences to their global neighbors, opening a window into unfamiliar lives, experiences and perspectives. The deadline for ITVS…
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And the 2010 duPont-Columbia University Awards go to…
January 22, 2010Last night, the 2010 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards were presented. Among the winners of this prestigious broadcast journalism award was the ITVS film The Judge and the General, by Elizabeth Farnsworth and Patricio Lanfranco, which aired on P.O.V. on PBS. The Judge and the General reveals the transformation of Judge Juan Guzmán in Chile as…
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Community Cinema Screening of Garbage Dreams in Houston
January 21, 2010Producing Partners are local community organizations that co-present Community Cinema screenings across the country. Last night, HoustonPBS screened the Independent Lens film Garbage Dreams. Filmed over four years, the film follows three teenage boys born into the trash trade and growing up in the world's largest garbage village, a ghetto…
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Robert Clift Looks at Racial Identity in Hip-Hop Music
January 21, 2010Blacking Up: Hip-Hop's Remix of Race and Identity, airing in February on public television, explores the tension between white racial identity and black cultural propriety at a time when hip-hop is redefining American life. Filmmaker Robert Clift recounts some of the questions he received about the film and what it was like working with white rappers --…