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The ITVS Indie Roundup
March 8, 2013A curated list of indie news and recommendations from ITVS’s Rebecca Huval. These 22 storytelling tips by Emma Coates, Pixar’s former story artist, are as uplifting and imaginative as Pixar’s films, and the guidelines are useful for non-fiction and fiction storytellers alike. If you’re hungry for more storytelling tips, check out this Kickstarter…
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Happy International Women’s Day from Women and Girls Lead
March 8, 2013Today is International Women’s Day! How do you plan to honor the more than 3 billion women and girls in the world in the next 24 hours? We like to celebrate with film, of course. No other medium can amplify women’s voices and capture their experiences quite like documentary film. Join us today at 11am PT / 2pm ET for a special International Women’s Day online…
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Women and Girls Star in the SheDocs Online Film Festival
March 7, 2013If the Oscars were any indication, we know Hollywood is lagging behind on representing women and girls in all their diversity on the big screen. In fact only 11 percent of protagonists in Hollywood films are female, according to a 2011 report from the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film. Women and Girls Lead has turned to the little screen to…
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Public Media Puts Social TV Front and Center at SXSW
March 7, 2013ITVS will unveil the tablet version of OVEE, a social screening platform developed for PBS and public television stations, at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival on Friday, March 8, 2013. This Friday, ITVS’s social screening platform, OVEE, will be featured at SXSW! Our own Dennis Palmieri and software developer Christian Nelson of…
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Join ITVS and the Museum of Tolerance for a Screening of The Calling
March 5, 2013ITVS and the New York Museum of Tolerance present a special free screening of The Calling on Tuesday, March 12th. What drives the new younger generation of professional clergy members to take on such an intense level of commitment and leadership? In 2010, director Danny Alpert took on this question in his four hour PBS documentary series The Calling,…