Special Events
Advanced Screening of The Island President in D.C.
U.S. Climate Action Network, 350.org, and ecoAmerica invite you and a guest to advance screenings of the The Island President on April 15th and 16th in Washington, DC. The documentary will premiere on PBS next season on Independent Lens.
These two advanced screenings of The Island President are part of the Washington, DC International Film Festival (FilmfestDC) lineup. While both screenings are open to climate community leaders and the rest of the public, the Monday evening screening will be immediately followed by a special Q&A discussion. › Continue reading
IL Presents a Social Screening of You’re Looking at Me Like I Live Here and I Don’t
The event will take place online this Sunday, April 1 at 10AM PT / 1PM ET.
Join a social screening of You’re Looking At Me Like I Live Here And I Don’t, with a panel of Alzheimer’s experts and share your own stories about how you have been impacted by the disease.
The event, which takes place exclusively online, will feature special guests Scott Kirschenbaum, director/producer of the film; Dr. David Oliver, co-author of The Human Factor in Nursing Home Care; Dr. Steven Zweig, community medicine and hospice expert; and David Shenk, author of the seminal Alzheimer’s book, The Forgetting.
Participants can join for free by signing in with Facebook or directly on the site, interacting with other viewers and panelists in real-time, while watching the film.
Viewers can comment, ask questions, take polls, and even express their feelings about what they’re watching through a variety of tools on the site. This is an entirely new way of experiencing documentary films and it is inherently social.
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The Island President Hits Theaters
The Island President may not be coming to Independent Lens until next season, but audiences don’t have to wait to see the story of former President of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed.
In February, former President Mohamed Nasheed made headlines when he was forced to step down after the Maldivian police and army turned against him. Prior to the coup, President Nasheed was known for his impassioned stance on climate change and was rewarded by being pushed out of office earlier this year, after the documentary concluded filming. The Island President follows Nasheed as he worked tirelessly to motivate the world to take action before the rising sea levels wiped out the Maldives, giving a human face to an issue that continues to threaten his country.
The Island President opened in theaters in New York on Wednesday, March 28th and will be coming to San Francisco (March 30), Los Angeles (April 6), Washington DC (April 20), San Diego (April 20), Minneapolis (April 27), and Detroit (April 27) throughout the next month. Additional cities will be added soon and will be posted to film’s website. Watch the film’s trailer after the jump. › Continue reading
FUTURESTATES Episode Caps PBS Online Shorts Festival
In the fifth and final week of the inaugural Online Shorts Festival, PBS will be wrapping up with Play, a mind-bending short film from the ITVS web series FUTURESTATES.
Play by David Kaplan and Eric Zimmerman
Play, written and directed by David Kaplan and game designer Eric Zimmerman, imagines a not-too-distant future where video games have become indistinguishable from reality. It was a fan favorite when it was first released online in 2010 on FUTURESTATES.TV. We hope it will be just as much of a hit this time around and be a contender for the shorts festival’s audience award. If you’d like to vote for it (hint, hint), follow this link to PBS.org and “like” it with the Facebook like button. › Continue reading
Screening of FUTURESTATES at the Tribeca Film Festival
ITVS and the Tribeca Film Institute will be hosting a free screening of FUTURESTATES Season 3 on Saturday, April 21 at 2PM in New York City.
What will be of America in 5, 25, or even 50 years from today? This series of independent mini-features, short narrative films created by established filmmakers and emerging talents, explores possible future scenarios through the lens of today’s global realities. Immerse yourself in the visions of these independent filmmakers as they inhabit a future of their own imagining.
The screening will take place on Saturday, April 21 at 2PM at the Tribeca Cinemas (54 Varick Street) in New York City, followed by a Q&A with many of the FUTURESTATES filmmakers, including Jennifer Phang (Advantageous), Patrick Stettner (Gunny), and Trevin Matcek (Life Begins at Rewirement).
To attend, please RSVP to rsvp@itvs.org
PBS Brings ‘Sunshine’ to Online Film Festival
The PBS Online Film Festival features 20 unique short films in various categories. From ‘Girl Power’ to ‘Offbeat’ and everywhere in between, PBS highlights the stories that only public media can tell.
Watch Sunshine: Single Dads on PBS. See more from PBS Online Film Festival.
Dig deep into your roots and welcome diversity with this week’s ‘Who Are We?’ shorts. ITVS is proud to have Sunshine: Single Dads, a short companion piece to the ITVS documentary Sunshine. In this short, single parenthood becomes even more complicated when the parent is a father and that father is gay. Sunshine: Single Dads tells the male side of one family’s unconventional parenting journey across generations.
PBS will announce the People’s Choice Winner on April 16th, so be sure to vote for your favorite film by clicking on the “like” button after watching the videos.
For a complete listing of short included in the PBS Online Film Festival, please click here.
The Black Power Mixtape Inspires Students in NYC
The Education Department at the Tibeca Film Institute will screen the documentary before more than 200 high school students at the Tribeca Cinemas on March 21, at 11AM ET.
This spring, the Education Department at Tribeca Film Institute is rethinking the way they share film with the community. In partnership with ITVS Community Classroom, and in conjunction with their Women and Girls Lead initiative, they will screen The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 on March 21st at 11am.
A film by Goran Hugo Olsson, The Black Power Mixtape brings together never before seen footage of Harlem, New York in the 1970s, and black power leaders like Stokely Carmichael and Angela Davis. Watch Davis discuss the film in an ITVS interview conducted earlier this year, after the jump.
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ITVS Introduces Beverly to the PBS Short Film Fest
ITVS is thrilled that the Women and Girls Lead profile “Meet Beverly” has been selected as one of five short films with the theme of “Girl Power” in the inaugural PBS Online Short Film Festival.
Last month, Beverly Kearney was honored as a part of BET’s “What Extraordinary Looks Like” awards along with Maya Angelou, Stevie Wonder, and Spike Lee. Although she is not a household name, once you hear her story, it’s obvious why she deserves to be recognized with these other cultural icons. If you don’t already know her, now is your opportunity to meet Beverly Kearney, the decorated women’s track and field coach from the University of Austin Texas. Beverly is profiled as one of many women in a new web series for the Women and Girls Lead campaign. This series is produced by independent filmmakers Betsy and Carl Crum (producers of the acclaimed web series One Square Mile) in collaboration with local public television stations throughout the United States and will feature inspiring stories of women and girls in local communities. The first batch takes us to Austin, Texas, where Betsy and Carl worked in partnership with public television station, KLRU.
Please take a minute to watch Beverly’s story and don’t forget to vote for her video for the Audience Award by “liking” the video here or here.
ITVS Attends MEG 2012 in Göteborg, Sweden
By Claire Aguilar
Vice President of Programming, ITVS
ITVS held court at the inaugural MEG 2012 conference, an event focused on creative approaches to content development, journalism, and entertainment.
On March 8th and 9th, I attended a new conference: Mediedagarna i Göteborg (Media Days Göteborg) or “MEG” for short. MEG was designed to attract media professionals from television, newspaper, magazine, and book publishing industries to participate in a truly trans-media conference. It was refreshing to see the overlap between the usually traditional media industries, like publishing, print and electronic journalism, and broadcast television interacting with citizen journalists, bloggers, and even webisode comedy. › Continue reading
A Message from Mary Louise Parker on International Women’s Day
The Independent Lens host invites you to celebrate International Women’s Day and ITVS’s public media campaign — Women and Girls Lead.
Show your support for the initiative (literally!) by adding the campaign’s banner to your Facebook profile for 24 hours in celebration of International Women’s Day. You can find the images on the Women and Girls Lead Facebook page.
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