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ITVS has selected six digital creators for its inaugural Independent Lens Creator Lab, funding each up to $36,000 to produce original short-form vertical video content for PBS and Independent Lens social platforms.
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Coming to Independent Lens next season!
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On Why Proposed Paramount-WBD Merger Would Be Disastrous
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ITVS announced today that its longtime Executive Vice President of Content, Jim Sommers, will depart the organization on May 8, 2026, after more than 25 years of leadership.
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As federal defunding dismantles public media, PBS’s independent partners are betting on YouTube’s reach—though some filmmakers aren’t convinced the platform serves them.
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Filmmaker explores her place in the community of little people in the new PBS documentary 'The Tallest Dwarf'
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Vicky Du’s Deeply Personal Documentary Traces the Lasting Impact of Displacement and Silence Across Four Generations of Her Chinese Family
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Filmmaker Tad Nakamura Honors Father’s Legacy as Godfather of Asian American Media While Reflecting on Inherited Trauma and a Lifetime of Storytelling
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Suzannah Herbert Captures a Mississippi Town Reckoning with Its Complicated Past Amid Antebellum Tourism
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Suzannah Herbert and Darcy McKinnon discuss their film
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The hub for nonfiction fare aims to help public television “meet new audiences where they already are,” says PBS president and CEO Paula Kerger.