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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.
ITVS at 20: Grateful and Hopeful for Independent Filmmakers
In celebration of ITVS’s 20th anniversary, President & CEO Sally Jo Fifer introduces the ITVS Indies Showcase. The online festival, which runs from July 25 through September 23, will stream 20 groundbreaking documentaries by award-winning independent filmmakers.
Independent filmmakers, compelled to reckon with meaning and truth, often surface opposition to the general order of things, hoping to make our democracy better.
At ITVS, we are proud and grateful to work with some of society’s most vital storytellers, and very proud to celebrate their legacy with an online showcase of films spanning our 20-year history.
Each of these works — culled from the more than 1,000 that ITVS has supported over the last two decades — represents a personal vision in service of the public good.
The artistry and innovation of independent filmmakers drive ITVS — thanks to them, our audiences, and our partners in public broadcasting, we have become the most productive funder and presenter of independently produced public interest documentaries in the country.
Mandated by Congress and incorporated in 1991, ITVS took up its mission after a decade-long effort by independents and their supporters to ensure that Americans would experience diverse stories otherwise unseen and unheard on commercial and public television broadcasting.
Independent documentary producers emerged en force in the 1960s from a resolute determination to set the record straight on the new, all-powerful medium of television — a medium suddenly made approachable by a new technology: the Sony Portapak camera.
Without the ballast of studio cameras or sponsoring advertisers, independents swarmed the streets to find their stories — not unlike the 19th century Realism painters who dispensed with royal portraits to capture farmers in the fields. Public television provided the distribution strategy that encouraged foundations to invest in these storytellers as agents to invigorate and inform our democracy.
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ITVS Indies Showcase Celebrates 20 Years of Independents
In celebration of ITVS’s 20th Anniversary, the organization will stream 20 groundbreaking documentaries from July 25 to September 23, as a part of the ITVS Indies Showcase.
The Independent Television Service is turning 20. To celebrate, we’re launching the ITVS Indies Showcase, a free online film festival featuring a succession of 20 unforgettable documentaries July 25 to September 23.
We’re fortunate to be able to honor the extraordinary contributions of independent filmmakers to public television. Each full-length program will stream free for three days as part of ITVS Indies Showcase, where viewers will also find a timeline of ITVS’s history, film trailers, clips, interviews, an audience award contest, and more.
The ITVS Indies Showcase line-up represents a sample of the 1,000-plus productions ITVS has supported as the country’s leading provider of independent films for public broadcasting.
Tune in next week as films will start streaming on Monday, July 25!
ITVS in the News
A sampling of coverage from Indiewire, Pop Matters, NCME and more…
Indiewire: Two Spirits Receives the Audience Award from PBS-Independent Lens
Lynda Nibley’s documentary Two Spirits has received the PBS-Independent Lens Audience Award, recognizing its status as the highest-rated film of the 2010-11 season by the measures of online voting and other forms of audience support.
Pop Matters: Cuba, An African Odyssey
El-Tahri’s fascinating documentary, produced in 2007 with the French-German television network Arte and premiering in two parts on ITVS’ Global Voices this month, traces the complicated history of Cuban efforts to help African independence movements during the Cold War.
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Catch ITVS Films and Staff at the Silverdocs Festival
The Silverdocs Film Festival and Conference kicks off Monday June 20 in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Known as the “pre-eminent documentary festival in the U.S.,” Silverdocs is a seven-day international film festival and five-day concurrent conference that promotes documentary film as a leading art form and supports the work of independent filmmakers.
Silverdocs kicks today in Silver Spring, Maryland and both ITVS staff and films are well represented:
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Pub TV’s INPUT Festival is All Seoul
By: Judy Ehrlich
INPUT’s weeklong showcase of content from international media-makers ran this past week in Seoul, Korea. Among the many filmmakers in attendance was Judy Ehrlich, whose documentary Most Dangerous Man in America screened at the event. She offered BTB this on-the-ground account from the festival.
Four jam packed days, dozens of films, discussions, debates, brutal honesty, humor mixed with painfully serious subject matter, and a delirious evening of Korea’s top musical acts in an eclectic concert in our honor and broadcast live.
For those who have never had the pleasure of attending INPUT, it isn’t just another film festival. INPUT is a yearly conference exploring TV making with peers from around the world. It is a chance for public television staff, leaders, and independent producers to share their programs and debate ideas about the future of the medium.
Children of the Amazon Collects High Honors in Nepal
Denise Zmekhol’s documentary Children of the Amazon recently picked up the Bronze Drum Award at the Nepal International Indigenous Film Festival. The filmmaker offered BTB a report from her trip, with some special footage from the doc. Children of the Amazon will be rebroadcast on May 14 and 15 on the WORLD Channel.
In April I was invited to participate in the Nepal International Indigenous Film Festival. I returned feeling very inspired by the 10 days I spent in Kathmandu. I met many indigenous filmmakers from Nepal and around the world. Although one nation politically, Nepal — the birthplace of Buddha — is truly a multiethnic, multilingual, and multifaith country.
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Call for Entries from imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival
The submission deadline for the 12th annual imagineNative Film + Media Arts Festival is June 1, 2011. This year’s festival runs from October 19-23, 2011 in Toronto.
imagineNATIVE is an international Festival that celebrates the latest works by Indigenous peoples at the forefront of innovation in film, video, radio and new media.
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Go Back to the Future at the Tribeca Film Festival
Catch a special FREE screening of FUTURESTATES Season Two on Saturday, April 23rd at 2:30PM at the Clearview Cinema in Chelsea, NYC
ITVS and Tribeca All Access host a free screening of shorts from the second season of FUTURESTATES on Saturday, April 23rd at 2:30PM at the Clearview Cinema in Chelsea. This year’s selection, listed below, highlights Tribeca All Access alumni as well as emerging New York filmmaking talent:
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