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  1. Ford Foundation Event Celebrates Premieres of Half the Sky and Women and Girls Lead Global

    September 26, 2012

    Foundation, NGO, and media outlet leaders applaud investment in efforts to achieve gender equality. NBC News correspondent Ann Curry with U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues Melanne Verveer, Half the Sky author Nicholas D. Kristof, and Ford Foundation President Luis Ubiñas. Photo credit: Ford Foundation, Hallie Easley.Amid the…

  2. Women and Girls Lead Global Partnership Launched

    September 24, 2012

    ITVS will lead implementation of project to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment worldwide.Dr. Rajiv Shah, Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), today announced the launch of Women and Girls Lead Global, a public-private partnership between USAID, Ford Foundation, and ITVS, working in collaboration…

  3. Muslim Stories Marinate Hawaiian Style

    April 25, 2012

    Filmmaker Justin Mashouf was one of six filmmakers invited to the Diverse Muslim Voices Exchange, hosted by the Doris Duke Foundation of Islamic Arts and ITVS. He offered BTB this roundup of the Exchange, held April 3-5, 2012 in Hawaii. Collaboration is the best teacher and earlier this month, my classroom was a recreated 17th century Mughal garden…

  4. Filmmaking Pair Pays Tribute to Joe Papp

    November 17, 2011

    Last month in New York, the Ford Foundation hosted a screening of the ITVS-funded Joe Papp in Five Acts. The filmmaking pair of Tracie Holder and Karen Thorsen, who spent more than a decade producing the documentary, offered BTB their impressions of the event and the legendary Joe Papp.The Unofficial Mayor of New York City By Tracie Holder Joe Papp in Five…

  5. Women’s X-Change Opens Doors for New Talent

    October 27, 2011

    Last week at the Ford Foundation in New York, ITVS and Chicken & Egg, co-presented The Women’s Exchange — a workshop for women filmmakers producing documentaries about women and girls. ITVS Vice President of Programming Claire Aguilar, was at the event and filed this report. While planning the Women and Girls Lead campaign, ITVS wanted to ensure that…

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