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Looking In: An Update from ITVS Production
October 7, 2011Managing Director of Production Richard O’Connell, provides the first in a series of updates on some of the latest initiatives for independents at ITVS. Welcome to the first in a series of updates on the production side of the public media world at large — in particular at ITVS, where our production team is working with filmmakers on more than 150 programs…
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Notes from Orientation 2011: A Filmmaker’s Take
February 23, 2011Doc filmmaker Reuben Atlas reflects on ITVS’ latest producers orientation for Open Call fundingI heard the letters I-T-V-S for the first time about three years ago, sitting in the audience at a panel on documentary financing. One of the panelists, an Oscar winner, had just responded to the question of how he financed his film by holding up his MasterCard.…
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Notes from Orientation: Producers Learn the Ropes at Camp ITVS
August 3, 2010ITVS’s Open Call provides finishing funds for single nonfiction public television programs on any subject and from any viewpoint. Last week, ITVS hosted nearly a dozen filmmakers who were recently awarded Open Call funding. Among the troops was Andy Schocken, producer and director of photography, of The World in a Room. Here he wraps up ITVS’s crash…