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1. Film: The Waiting Room

   

   The Waiting Room is a cinema verité portrait of a California city's public safety-net hospital as it struggles to handle patient overload in a swooning economy and a constantly shifting landscape of health care policy.

2. Film: The Force

   

   The Force goes deep inside the long-troubled Oakland Police Department as it struggles to confront federal demands for reform, a popular uprising following events in Ferguson, MO, and an explosive scandal.

3. Blog Story: See a Capitol Hill Screening of The Waiting Room

   ITVS invites members of Congress and their staff and community members to a special screening and discussion organized in cooperation with the Congressional Arts Caucus and Congresswoman Barbara Lee. The event will take place Monday, June 18 from 6 to 8:30pm at the Cannon House Office Building / Caucus Room. You can RSVP to Monday's event here.The…

4. Blog Story: ITVS Summer Summit: That Was Then, This Is Now

   

   Get a sneak peek at the Summer 2021 ITVS Independents Summit, a series of conversations for funded filmmakers to talk about what is changing in the documentary industry, about what public media makers have gone through, and what ITVS has learned in a tumultuous year.

5. Press Release: The Force Premieres on Independent Lens Monday, January 22, 2018 on PBS

   (San Francisco, CA) — At a powder keg moment in American policing, The Force presents a mesmerizing cinema vérité look deep inside the long-troubled Oakland Police Department as it struggles to confront federal demands for reform, a popular uprising following events in Ferguson, Missouri, and an explosive sex scandal.

6. Blog Story: Wrapping Up 2021 Independents Summit: What Does "Now" Look Like for Doc Makers

   

   ITVS robust 2021 edition of its Independents Summit was jam-packed with panels of ITVS-funded filmmakers, industry partners, PBS reps, and thought leaders asking, What does "now" look like for documentary makers in a rapidly changing media landscape? Read on for our recap.

7. Blog Story: ITVS Heads to Park City for the 2017 Sundance Film Festival

   

   ITVS is back at the world famous Sundance Film Festival in 2017 to proudly support four of our funded films: QUEST, The Force, Motherland, and Tell Them We Are Rising.