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Ithaca Community Cinema Reports on TAKING ROOT
May 21, 2009Ithaca Community Cinema recently held a screening of the Independent Lens film TAKING ROOT: The Vision of Wangari Maathai at S.T.A.M.P.'s Guerrilla Griots Human Rights Media Arts Center. TAKING ROOT tells the dramatic story of Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai whose simple act of planting trees grew into a global movement.…
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Watch These ITVS Programs This Month on Public Television
May 21, 2009BOLINAO 52, premiering this month on public television (check local listings). In 1988 a group of Vietnamese boat people attempted to flee their country in search of freedom. Once at sea the boat's engine died leaving over 100 people stranded in the ocean. What happens next is an unbelievable story of perseverance that changed the lives of the survivors…
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In the News: The Latest on ITVS Programs
May 20, 2009"CRIPS AND BLOODS: Made in America, a documentary feature on the PBS series Independent Lens, begins with the arresting picture ... of downtown Los Angeles hanging upside down in the sky. It's a simple but surprisingly potent image ... and it captures as well as anything the menace and nonsense of its subject, the self-destructive assertion of territory…
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At the Peabody Awards with Vice President and Indie Lens Series Producer Lois Vossen
May 19, 2009Yesterday, I attended the 2009 Peabody Awards ceremony at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. This year, PBS received six Peabody Awards and I’m proud to say that one-third of those went to Independent Lens. Taking home awards were Maria Finitzo for MAPPING STEM CELL RESEARCH: Terra Incognita, which looks at Dr. Jack Kessler, a prominent…
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Community Cinema Presents ASK NOT in Washington, D.C.
May 19, 2009ITVS Regional Outreach Coordinator Michon Boston discusses the Community Cinema screening of ASK NOT in Washington, D.C., which premieres June 16 at 10:00 PM on Independent Lens on PBS (check local listings). Read her report of what it was like screening this film in the hub of national politics. This season, Community Cinema featured two Independent…