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  1. Video Feature: Tavis Smiley Show Looks at CRIPS AND BLOODS

    May 7, 2009

    On Tuesday, May 12 at 10:00 PM (check local listings), Independent Lens will present CRIPS AND BLOODS: Made in America, which examines the conditions that have lead to the devastating gang violence among young African Americans growing up in South Los Angeles. Following the broadcast, be sure to watch the Tavis Smiley Show with CRIPS AND BLOODS Producer…

  2. ITVS Funding Deadlines

    May 6, 2009

    Looking for film funding? ITVS funds, distributes and promotes new programs primarily for public television. We work with independent producers to create and present programs that take creative risks, advance issues and represent points of view not usually seen on public or commercial television. ITVS is committed to programming that addresses the…

  3. Watch WINGS OF DEFEAT Tonight on Independent Lens

    May 5, 2009

    What were the Japanese Kamikazes thinking just before crashing into their targets? When Risa Morimoto discovered that her beloved uncle trained as a Kamikaze pilot in his youth, she wondered the same thing. Through rare interviews with surviving Kamikaze pilots, Morimoto retraces their journeys from teenagers to doomed pilots and reveals a complex…

  4. In the News: The Latest on ITVS Programs

    May 4, 2009

    Seattle NBC affiliate reports on the Community Cinema screening of CRIPS AND BLOODS: Made in America, hosted by KCTS, and the impact of gang violence in the community. Watch the full report >>“WINGS OF DEFEAT combines interview footage and visits to Japanese war museums with rarely screened propaganda movies and posters as well as original…

  5. Watch THE DEVIL'S MINER on Global Voices on PBS WORLD

    May 1, 2009

    Living in poverty with their mother in the mountains of Bolivia, 14-year-old Basilio and his 12-year-old brother, Bernardino, brave deadly conditions while working long shifts in the Cerro Rico silver mines to earn enough money to attend school. THE DEVIL'S MINER follows the brothers into the underground mining tunnels where they tempt fate to gain a…

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