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International Rescue Committee Launches Report on Domestic Violence in West Africa
May 24, 2012The International Rescue Committee is a partner of ITVS’s Women and Girls Lead campaign. Years after the end of war in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Ivory Coast — women continue to suffer violence at alarming levels and with shocking frequency. The primary threat to their safety is not strangers or men with guns; it is their husbands. This is among the…
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Newly Funded: ITVS is Pleased to Announce Funding for Marissa Aroy’s Delano Manongs
May 24, 2012ITVS recently approved funding for the documentary Delano Manongs by filmmaker Marissa Aroy. Delano Manongs was funded through ITVS's LINCS initiative as a production and presentation partnership with KVIE and CAAM.Delano Manongs tells the story of farm labor organizer Larry Itliong and a group of Filipino farm workers who instigated one of the…
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Preview: POV’s 25th Season
May 23, 2012Launched in 1988 to showcase new and challenging point-of-view documentaries on PBS, POV (Point of View) has grown to become American television’s longest-running series dedicated to contemporary nonfiction programming. Watch POV Season 25 Preview on PBS. See more from POV.POV launches its 25th season on Thursday, June 21, 2012 at 10 PM (check…
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PBS Shines Light on Independents at 2012 Annual Meeting
May 23, 2012Each spring, PBS hosts its Annual Meeting, an opportunity for people from across the public television landscape to come together and see what worked the year before and look ahead to what the coming year holds. The PBS Annual Meeting is attended by public television station staff including general managers, programmers, outreach and publicity staff,…
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Live Chat with Geena Davis on Women and Girls Lead
May 22, 2012On Wednesday, May 23 at 3pm CT / 4pm ET — Women and Girls Lead advocate and Academy Award-winning actor Geena Davis will participate in a live social screening and chat about women’s empowerment. Nashville Public Television will produce the event, which will stream the War Redefined (narrated by Davis), as episode from the acclaimed series Women War and…