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Newly Funded: ITVS is Pleased to Announce Funding for Deej
May 17, 2013ITVS recently approved funding for Deej, a documentary by Robert Rooy (Director/Producer) and David James Savarese (Producer).Deej is the story of DJ Savarese (“Deej”), a gifted, young writer and an advocate for nonspeaking autistics. Once a “profoundly disabled” foster kid seemingly on the fast track to nowhere, DJ is now a first year college student…
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Newly Funded: ITVS is Pleased to Announce Funding for Roger Ross Williams's God Loves Uganda
June 19, 2012ITVS recently approved funding for the documentary God Loves Uganda by filmmakers Roger Ross Williams (Director/Producer) and Julie Goldman (Producer). God Loves Uganda is a journey into the heart of East Africa, where Ugandan pastors and their American counterparts spread God’s word and evangelical values to millions desperate for a better life.…
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Newly Funded: ITVS is Pleased to Announce Funding for David Osit’s Building Babel
April 20, 2012ITVS recently approved funding for the documentary Building Babel by filmmaker David Osit (Director/Producer).Building Babel follows a year in the life and work of Sharif El- Gamal, the developer behind New York’s ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ otherwise known as Park51 — a Muslim community center two blocks from the site of the World Trade Center. The film…
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2011 Slate of Diversity Development Fund Films
April 9, 2012ITVS has announced the eleven documentary projects selected as part of the 2011 Diversity Development Fund. This year’s selections provide extraordinary access and insight into the daily lives and struggles of people around the world, from military veterans threatened with deportation in the U.S. to women's human rights struggles in Nigeria. The…
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Newly Funded: ITVS is Pleased to Announce Funding for Christina Ibarra’s Marthas
March 14, 2012ITVS recently approved funding for the documentary Marthas by filmmakers Christina Ibarra (Director/Co-Producer) and Erin Ploss-Campoamor (Co-Producer).Marthas is a one-hour documentary that follows the year-long preparations of Mexican American teenagers debuting in the annual Martha Washington Society Ball in Laredo, Texas. The Ball, a…