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Donate Life California and ITVS Partner for D TOUR Community Cinema Screening
September 17, 2009Currently there are more than 100,000 people waiting for a life-saving organ transplant, of which 20,000 on the wait list live in California. Due to a lack of donors, 18 patients die every day awaiting a second chance at life. Donate Life California and ITVS have recently partnered to spread awareness about organ donation for the upcoming Community Cinema…
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At the Toronto International Film Festival: THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN AMERICA
September 17, 2009The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), which kicked off last week, is considered one of the top festivals in the world. This year, two ITVS films are in competition. Read the article below from the TIFF blog, by Heidy Morales, about the ITVS film THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN AMERICA: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers and the audience’s…
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Open Call Recipients: Melanie Judd and Susan Motamed, Filmmakers of ADOPT ME, MICHAEL JORDAN
September 16, 2009ITVS’s Open Call provides finishing funds for single non-fiction or animation public television programs on any subject and from any viewpoint. Projects must have begun production as evidenced by a work-in-progress video. Check out the clip below with filmmakers Melanie Judd and Susan Motamed, who received Open Call funds for their film ADOPT ME,…
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LINCS Film Funding: Q&A with Panelist
September 15, 2009Linking Independents and Co-Producing Stations (LINCS) provides matching funds (up to $100,000) to partnerships between public television stations and independent producers. For the past two days, the LINCS panel––made up of peers in the independent film and television community––has been convening to recommend eight to ten projects for ITVS…
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Watch ITVS Films for Free on Hulu
September 15, 2009Do you love indie films but not sure where to find them online? ITVS now has numerous films available on Hulu for free from the PBS series Independent Lens and the PBS WORLD series Global Voices. Among the programs available is the deeply moving Independent Lens film A DREAM IN DOUBT, which looks at one of America’s first post-9/11 hate crime murders and the…