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Virgin America Offers ITVS International Films In-flight
May 27, 2009ITVS International has taken flight—literally. Virgin America, which currently flies to nine U.S. cities, is offering SOLO, an ITVS International film. SOLO recounts Andrew McAuley’s brave journey as he attempted to cross 1,000 miles of one of the wildest and loveliest stretches of the Southern Ocean from Australia to New Zealand by kayak. ITVS…
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Latino Public Broadcasting Open Call Deadline
May 26, 2009Are you an independent producer working on a project that relates to or is representative of Latino Americans? Be sure to apply to Latino Public Broadcasting (LPB)’s Open Call 2009. Deadline: June 1 at 5:00 PM. LPB supports the development, production, acquisition and distribution of non-commercial educational and cultural television that is…
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Watch STEAL A PENCIL FOR ME Tonight on Independent Lens
May 26, 2009They say, "Love conquers all." Or at least that's what Jack Polak thought while struggling for survival in a Nazi concentration camp. Jack, his wife Manja and his new love, Ina, all end up living in the same barracks. When Jack's wife objects to the relationship, in spite of their unhappy marriage, Jack and Ina resort to writing secret love letters, which…
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ITVS and WNIN Present ASK NOT
May 22, 2009Johnny Symons, producer and director of ASK NOT, a film that explores the U.S. military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, airing on Independent Lens, June 16 at 10:00 PM (check local listings), discusses his most recent Community Cinema screening in Evansville, Indiana. Find out what it was like for him as he ventured into this unfamiliar Midwestern…
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Watch DEATH OF A SHAMAN on Global Voices on PBS WORLD
May 22, 2009Through a journey that takes her back to her roots in Thailand, a young Mien woman from Sacramento strives to come to terms with her father's death and drug addiction, and her sister's murder. Reunited with her Mien relatives, she begins to grasp the complexity of her father's past and experience the nuances of lost identity. Watch a preview below: DEATH OF A…