In the News: The Latest on ITVS Programs

Posted on February 3, 2010

 

“The gutsy television company ITVS, which has embraced alternative distribution models for years, had three documentaries at Sundance this year. I wasn't able to see Laura Poitras's The Oath, about a Yemenite family, Al Qaeda, and Guantanamo Bay. My Perestroika offers fascinatingly differing accounts of how several Russian former high school classmates have fared since the collapse of the Soviet Union…” Read more >>

 

 


“The Bay Area has long been known as a center for documentary filmmaking. ... The area is home to the Independent Television Service, a major financer of documentary films, as well as some of the most respected film schools in the country.” Read more >>

 

"Blacking Up is careful to let people speak for themselves, as Clift efficiently segues from scene to scene: a Long Island meeting of the ossifying Al Jolson Society; a trip on a black-owned New York bus tour of hip-hop landmarks, during which white tourists are urged to wear complimentary bling." Read full review >>


Priscilla Diaz, the subject of P-Star Rising, discusses the premiere of her film and her new season on PBS's The Electric Company on WPIX, the flagship station of The CW Television Network. Watch now >>

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