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  1. Crossover Premieres on FUTURESTATES

    May 1, 2012

    Directed by Tina Mabry the film will be available to stream for free at futurestates.tv and simultaneously on pbs.org. An online social screening of the short will take place here this Friday, May 4 at 11am PT / 2pm ET. In a future where schools are segregated by economic status, a struggling mother must decide whether to sell her own organs to give her…

  2. ITVS Announces Production of American Graduate Latino Programming

    May 1, 2012

    The national public media initiative's goal is to address the growing Latino high school dropout crisis.Nationwide, Latino students face an increased risk of dropping out of school. 41 percent of Latinos ages 20 and older do not have a high school diploma, compared to 23 percent of blacks and 14 percent of whites. To address the growing high school dropout…

  3. Reaching an Audience on Multiple Screens

    April 30, 2012

    ITVS's Rebecca Huval discusses research, news, and trends that come out of ITVS’s IndiesLab.As you probably know, TV viewership today is vastly different than it was just a few years ago. There’s at least one upside. Now that viewers tend to click on their entertainment, media has become easier to track. Recent Nielsen reports paint a picture of TV homes…

  4. ITVS Interactive Projects Awarded NEA Funding

    April 27, 2012

    The National Endowment for the Arts has selected two ITVS interactive projects to receive funding through its Arts in Media Grants.  This week, the National Endowment for the Arts announced projects selected for funding through its Arts in Media Grants Program. We're proud to announce that two interactive projects, funded through ITVS’s Project 360…

  5. The ITVS Indies Roundup

    April 27, 2012

    A curated list of indie news and recommendations from ITVS’s Rebecca Huval. Good news continues to pour in from the passage of the JOBS Act. For example, indie filmmakers could raise up to one million dollars. Cue the Dr. Evil face. Can the art-form of cinéma vérité and Werner Herzog benefit from the input of technologists? MIT Open Documentary Lab thinks…

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