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ITVS Funded Films Receive Three Nominations for the 2011 IDA Awards
Three ITVS projects received nominations for the 2011 IDA Awards which will be held on December 2nd in Los Angeles.
The IDA Awards celebrate outstanding achievements in documentary filmmaking and three ITVS funded films received nominations for the 2011 Awards. All three nominees were originally broadcast on the award-winning PBS series POV. See the entire list of ITVS nominees after the jump:
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ITVS Garners Four Nominations for IFP Gotham Awards
ITVS films received four out of five nominations in the Best Documentary category for the 2011 Gotham Awards. The award ceremony will take place on November 28th at Cipriani Wall Street in New York.
ITVS nearly got a clean sweep in the Best Documentary category of the IFP Gotham Awards with ITVS films receiving four out of the five nominations. Check out the list of ITVS Best Documentary nominees along with their trailers after the jump >>
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Media That Matters Presents: Women & Girls Matter
Women & Girls Matter is a day-long summit featuring panels and workshops on the obstacles and opportunities facing women and girls in filmmaking and new media. The event takes place on October 29, 2011 in New York.
The Women & Girls Matter event will include a day of panels and workshops presented by Media That Matters. The summit is designed to look at the obstacles and opportunities for women and girls in filmmaking and new media, highlighting the values women bring to their work, and to open up a dialogue for ways to create new spaces for female voices in the field.
The day focuses on the needs of women in film and will conclude with concrete actions for participants to take in order to help bring the voices of women and girls out of the margins and into the mainstream.
Women & Girls Matter takes place on October 29 in New York City. For more information, click here >>
You can register for the event online at womenandgirlsmatter.eventbrite.com >>
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Up Next on Independent Lens, Donor Unknown
Like a real-life The Kids Are All Right, Donor Unknown profiles a far-flung group of siblings in search of each other and their father. The film airs Thursday, October 20 on Independent Lens (check local listings). Earlier in the day, BTB will host a live chat on the subject at 10AM PT / 1PM ET on BTB.
JoEllen Marsh is 20 years old, and has never met her father. As she goes in search of her paternity, her path to Donor 150 becomes an exploration into identity and the complex permutations of family. Her journey raises questions about what makes us who we are, what makes a family, and what the brave new world of fertility technology means for our assumptions about both.
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ITVS Indies Showcase Audience Award Winner – A Panther in Africa
Your votes have been counted and the ITVS Indies Showcase Audience Award goes to A Panther in Africa!
To bring closure to the inaugural ITVS Indies Showcase festival which just wrapped up, viewers were asked to select a favorite film for the always-coveted Audience Award. Well, the votes have been tallied and the Indies Showcase Audience Award winner is A Panther in Africa.
The documentary by filmmaker Aaron Matthews, which originally aired on POV, tells the story of Pete O’Neal, a Black Panther living in exile in Tanzania who commits his life to activism and community service.
Congratulations to the filmmaker and thanks to everyone who voted!
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Now Streaming on Indies Showcase: Daddy & Papa
Exploring the growing phenomenon of gay fatherhood through the stories of four families, Daddy & Papa looks at gay fathers who face both the routine and revolutionary challenges of becoming parents. Watch the Emmy Award-nominated documentary streaming free until Sept. 1st on ITVS’s Indies Showcase.
Daddy & Papa explores the personal, cultural, and political impact of gay men who are making a decision that is at once traditional and revolutionary: to raise children themselves. Taking us inside four gay male families, Daddy & Papa traces the day-to-day challenges and the larger, critical issues that inevitably intersect their private lives – the ambiguous place of interracial families in America, the wonder and precariousness of surrogacy and adoption, the complexities of marriage and divorce within the gay community, and the legality of their own parenthood.
Watch Daddy & Papa now on ITVS’s Indies Showcase >>
Now Streaming on Indies Showcase: Still Life With Animated Dogs
In Still Life With Animated Dogs we meet the canine companions who helped shape animator Paul Fierlinger’s evolution as an artist and as a man. Watch the Peabody Award winning animated film streaming free today on ITVS’s Indies Showcase.
Still Life with Animated Dogs traces Paul Fierlinger’s tumultuous life from Stalinist Czechoslovakia to the United States as seen through his relationships with his dogs. It is Fierlinger’s loyalty and caring for his dogs that sustains him even in an atmosphere of oppression and suspicion. Each dog serves as a marker of its master’s personal growth from a misanthrope to an artist who appreciates the divine powers of nature.
Watch Still Life with Animated Dogs now on ITVS’s Indies Showcase >>
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Now Streaming on Indies Showcase: Girls Like Us
Emmy Award-winning documentary from Jane C. Wagner and Tina DiFeliciantonio takes a disarming look into the lives of teenage girls, working to shape their identities in the ’90s. Girls Like Us streams free until Friday, August 26 as part of ITVS’s Indies Showcase.
An ethnically diverse group of four working class girls strut, flirt, and testify in this vibrant, affecting portrait of teenage girls’ experiences of sexuality. Filmed in South Philadelphia and following its subjects from the ages of 14 to 18, Girls Like Us reveals the conflicts of growing up female by examining the impact of class, sexism, and violence on the dreams and expectations of young girls.
Watch Girls Like Us now on Indies Showcase >>
Vote for ITVS’s Women Lead Panel at SXSW 2012!
SXSW Panel Picker allows the community to have a significant voice in programming conference activities for SXSW 2012. Make your voice heard by voting for our Women Lead Panel which will focus on public media in the 21st Century. Vote now! Thanks.
Women are transforming the landscape of public media through innovation, audience engagement and new forms of storytelling. Our proposed SXSW panel, Women Lead: Public Media in the 21st Century, presents women as innovators and collaborators and will examine how multiple stories told through both traditional and digital media can work in concert to illuminate issues, create sustained, global conversations and invite the public to get involved.
The entry point to the conversation is our new public media initiative, Women and Girls Lead– an unprecedented campaign that activates public television and radio producers, social media strategists, interactive and game designers, and multiple NGO partners committed to affecting change for women and girls around the world. Watch, listen and interact with a variety of content created for this campaign and hear from some 0of the leading women in their field about their experiences working in a 21st century media environment.
Click here to vote for ITVS’s Women Lead Panel at SXSW 2012.
Amelia Nardinelli on Her Mother, Filmmaker Gail Dolgin
Amelia Nardinelli talks about her mother, filmmaker Gail Dolgin, who passed away last year. Gail’s film Daughter from Danang is the first featured documentary streaming free until Wednesday, as part of ITVS’s Indies Showcase.
The Oscar-nominated film follows the reunion of a Vietnamese mother and her Amerasian daughter after they were separated for 22 years.
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