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Three ITVS Films Make the 2025 Top 10 Disability Representation List – FWD-DOC
Life After, SEEDS, and Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore, have been recognized on the 2025 Top 10 Disability Representation List from Filmmakers with Disabilities
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Spotlighting the Immigrant Workforce Sustaining the Kentucky Derby, “Backside: The Unseen Hands of Horse Racing,” Premieres as an Independent Lens/VOCES Co-Presentation on April 13
Documentary Looks Beyond the Glamour and Pageantry to the Unseen Workers Keeping Horseracing’s Biggest Stage Running
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The Inquisitor review in the New York Times!
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“The Tallest Dwarf,” a Deeply Personal and Playful Journey into Belonging, Body Acceptance, and Identity, Premieres on PBS’s Independent Lens
A Filmmaker Seeks Belonging in the Little People Community and Explores Life Amid Shifting Disability Landscapes
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Remembering Documentarian Frederick Wiseman
Frederick Wiseman Dies at 96: The Documentary Legend Was One of Cinema’s Greatest Masters
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The Librarians Featured in Vogue
Required Reading: 10 Books That Changed Librarian Martha Hickson’s Life
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American Pachuco featured as one of NPR Pop Culture Hour’s Sundance highlights
“Quite possibly the best documentary we’ll see all year!”
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“Keep Quiet and Forgive,” An Unflinching Look at the Amish Community’s Silence Around Sexual Abuse, Premieres March 23 on Independent Lens
Director Sarah McClure Investigates Culture of Abuse in Ultra-Conservative Minnesota Amish Community, as Told in Their Own Words
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Sundance 2026: Queer Mexican rodeo film ‘Jaripeo’ bucks tradition – LA Times
When devising their debut film, “Jaripeo,” directors Efraín Mojica and Rebecca Zweig started with one rule: “It’s got to be gay.”
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Three ITVS funded films won awards at Sundance 2026! – Deadline
Congratulations to American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez, Aanikoobijigan & TheyDream for receiving Sundance Awards!
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Challenging Official Histories in “Natchez”… – The New Yorker
Two stunning new documentaries—one filmed in Mississippi, and one in Russia—examine the ways that education comes up against indoctrination.