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Celebrate Title IX with a Summer of Women and Girls Lead Films Online
June 22, 2012Strength. Stamina. Determination. Resilience in the face of obstacles. All these words could be used to describe independent filmmakers but they’re also qualities common to women and girls in sports. In celebration of the 40th anniversary of Title IX legislation ending gender-based discrimination in federally-funded educational activities,…
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The Day My God Died, Sunday on Global Voices
June 22, 2012The ITVS-funded documentary by Andrew Levine airs Sunday, June 24 on Global Voices on the WORLD Channel. Narrated by Academy Award-winning actor Tim Robbins, The Day My God Died lifts the veil of secrecy on the sex trafficking of Nepali children in India using footage from the brothels captured with spy camera technology. The film tells the stories of…
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The ITVS Indies Roundup
June 22, 2012A curated list of indie news and recommendations from ITVS’s Rebecca Huval. Who said there’s no money in documentary filmmaking? You could score $100,000 for producing a three-minute nonfiction film about invention or innovation in the Focus Forward Filmmaker Challenge. The deadline for submissions is August 23. While we’re on the subject of money,…
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A Hackathon Begins at Silverdocs
June 21, 2012The “Silverhacks” panel examines an open source community that unites documentary storytellers and technologists for two days to introduce an original web documentary. ITVS’s Jonathan Archer will participate in the event on Thursday, June 21 at 3pm ET. Hackathons offer documentarians the chance to collaborate with creative technologists to…
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Bringing New Voices to Health Care Talk on Capitol Hill
June 20, 2012Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA) introduced The Waiting Room on June 18 for a screening on Capitol Hill. The documentary will air next season on Independent Lens.This past Monday, ITVS presented a timely screening and discussion on health care and America’s uninsured featuring Peter Nick’s award-winning documentary, The Waiting Room. The film goes…