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Losing an Acrobat: A Filmmaker Update
July 17, 2012The ITVS-funded documentary Acrobat premiered Sunday on Global Voices. After the tragic passing of the film’s central character, Fabrice Champion, filmmaker Olivier Meyrou reflects on his time with Fabrice. The version of Acrobat that recently premiered on Global Voices wrapped about a year ago, however, with the support of the film’s producer,…
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Acrobat, Sunday on Global Voices
July 13, 2012The ITVS-funded documentary Acrobat by Olivier Meyrou airs Sunday, July 15 on Global Voices on the WORLD Channel. Fabrice Champion, a young internationally renowned trapeze artist, hit another acrobat in mid-air during a show and was paralyzed. Following years of rehabilitation therapy, hopes lost and found, he returns to the circus as director and…
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Open Call Recipient: Aaron Schock, Filmmaker of CIRCO
June 3, 2009ITVS funds, distributes and promotes new programs produced by independent producers primarily for public television and beyond. Aaron Schock produced and directed CIRCO, which looks at the hardscrabble Ponce family circus in Mexico who are struggling to preserve their art and way of life against a collapsing rural economy. Schock received ITVS’s Open…