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Live Online Screening of The Interrupters
Kartemquin Films, PBS Frontline, and ITVS invite you to join the filmmakers and subjects of The Interrupters for a special live, online “social screening” of the film beginning at 5:30PM PT / 8:30PM ET. Follow this link to participate in the screening.
Watch The Interrupters Preview on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE.
Participating in the screening will be the film’s producers Steve James and Alex Kotlowitz, and violence interrupter Cobe Williams. More participants are still to be confirmed.
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Oakland Rallies Behind The Interrupters
Last week, Community Cinema broke records at the Oakland Museum of California with more than 450 audience members in attendance for The Interrupters. The documentary, by filmmaker Steve James, will premiere Tuesday February 14 on PBS’ FRONTLINE. Watch a clip from the Community screening in Oakland, below:
In partnership with KQED, The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Youth ALIVE!, the Urban Peace Movement, and a host of other youth organizations represented, the film showed to a standing room only packed house in two theaters.
Youth were at the center of the discussion and made up the majority of the audience. The panel included Ameena Matthews and Eddie Bocanegra, Violence Interrupters featured in the film.
Interrupt Violence: New Interactive Website for The Interrupters
Filmmaker Steve James’ The Interrupters premieres on FRONTLINE Tuesday night on PBS. The ITVS-funded documentary looks at a group of men and women in Chicago — most of them former gang leaders and ex-cons — that are trying to “interrupt” shootings and protect their communities from the violence they once employed. A companion site for the film, interruptviolence.com, launched today. Kartemquin films have permitted BTB to share their post about some of the site’s features.
Today we’re launching Interrupt Violence (interruptviolence.com), Kartemquin’s first transmedia project, which will expand the journey of The Interrupters into the persistent violence that plagues American cities.
Live Chat on The Interrupters with Filmmaker Steve James
Join FRONTLINE, ITVS, and acclaimed director Steve James to discuss his latest documentary The Interrupters, which premieres Tuesday night on PBS.
Interrupter Ameena Matthews Handles Stephen Colbert
Featured in the ITVS-funded documentary The Interrupters, Ameena Matthews gave a powerful performance on Wednesday’s edition of the Colbert Report. The documentary, by acclaimed director Steve James, will premiere on PBS’s FRONTLINE on February 14.
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The film takes a look at a group of men and women — most of them former gang leaders and ex-cons — that are trying to “interrupt” shootings and protect their communities from the violence they once employed. Watch the trailer for the The Interrupters below:
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Back to Back Investigative Reports, Tuesday on FRONTLINE
The PBS series will offer a magazine style program on Tuesday night with two joint investigative reports: The Child Cases and Educating Sergeant Pantzke.
On Tuesday June 28 at 9pm ET, FRONTLINE will air (and post online) The Child Cases, the result of a joint-investigation of more than 20 pediatric death cases in which people were jailed on medical evidence — involving abuse, assault and “shaken-baby syndrome” — that was later found to be unreliable or simply wrong. The film goes deep inside several cases to asses what’s happening and why. Are death investigators being properly trained for child cases? (Watch a clip from the film after the jump…)
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April is Parkinson’s Awareness Month – Watch My Father, My Brother, and Me on PBS.org
Dave Iverson and his father
As many as 1.5 million people in the United States are afflicted with Parkinson’ s Disease. And while research using stem cells shows promise and has resumed under the Obama Administration, there is still no cure. About $25 billion dollars is spent on the treatment of and care for Parkinsonian patients every year.
In honor of Parkinson’s Awareness Month, we direct your attention to a moving and informative ITVS film called My Father, My Brother, and Me, which was recently broadcast on Frontline and is currently available to watch for free online at PBS.org.
Producer Dave Iverson began making the film after he was diagnosed with the degenerative brain disease, just as his father and brother had before him. Featuring interviews with Parkinson’s sufferers Michael Kinsley and Charles Krauthammer, and research scientist Dr. William Langston, the film is part elegy and part rigorous investigation into the mysteries that surround the disease and the controversy surrounding the research into its cure.
Check out the My Father, My Brother, and Me companion website for a wealth of behind-the-scenes video, including an exclusive interview with actor and stem-cell research advocate Michael J. Fox.
Watch the trailer below:
CPB President and CEO Patricia Harrison Discusses Public Media with Better.tv
Patricia Harrison, president and CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), recently sat down with Better.tv to discuss the importance of public media in changing peoples’ lives and engaging communities.
Watch the clip below in which Harrison discusses how programs like FRONTLINE and Independent Lens are helping to inspire public television viewers and reaching a more diversified audience.
ITVS Films on Tonight’s FRONTLINE and Independent Lens
Tune in to PBS tonight for back-to-back presentations of ITVS films.
First, at 9:00 PM, FRONTLINE, in a co-production with ITVS, will present MY FATHER, MY BROTHER AND ME, a film that explores life with Parkinson’s disease. In 2004, journalist David Iverson received the same news that had been delivered to his father and older brother years earlier: he had Parkinson’s disease, a degenerative neurological disorder that affects about one million Americans. Setting off on a personal journey, Iverson explores the scientific, ethical, and political debate that surrounds Parkinson’s, a disease at the center of the ongoing controversy over embryonic stem cell research.
In the months leading up to the broadcast, Iverson has been blogging and posting video excerpts from the documentary that explore thought-provoking questions about genetics and stem cell research, the effects of new treatments and exercise on the disease, and personal stories around religious beliefs, family and coping with the effects of the disease.
Visit the blog for a live national discussion with David Iverson after tonight’s broadcast >>
Listen to KQED-San Francisco’s Forum about tonight’s broadcast of FRONTLINE:
Then at 10:00 PM, stick around to watch ADJUST YOUR COLOR: The Truth of Petey Greene on Independent Lens. He was a former drug addict and felon. He was also America’s first “shock jock.” Petey Greene gave voice to the unheard––speaking truth to power on his raw and uncensored TV and radio programs. His explosive language and brash style shocked the world as he battled both the system and his own demons on a journey to becoming a leading activist during some of the most tumultuous years in recent history.
Check out the preview below of tonight’s Independent Lens on SnagFilms, one of our digital partners:
ADJUST YOUR COLOR: The Truth of Petey Green airs tonight at 10:00 PM on Independent Lens on PBS
FRONTLINE and ITVS Explore Parkinson’s Disease
David Iverson and his father, Bill, in 1949.
Next Tuesday, February 3 at 9:00 PM on PBS, FRONTLINE, in a co-production with ITVS, will present MY FATHER, MY BROTHER AND ME, a film that explores life with Parkinson’s disease.
In 2004, journalist Dave Iverson received the same news that had been delivered to his father and older brother years earlier: He had Parkinson’s disease, a degenerative neurological disorder that affects about one million Americans. In a FRONTLINE and ITVS joint production, Iverson sets off on a personal journey to explore the scientific, ethical and political debate that surrounds Parkinson’s, a disease at the center of the ongoing controversy over embryonic stem cell research. Iverson talks to scientists on the cutting edge of new cures and therapies for Parkinson’s and other major neurological conditions, and he has intimate conversations with fellow Parkinson’s sufferers like actor Michael J. Fox and writer Michael Kinsley.
Can’t wait until next Tuesday? FRONTLINE is pre-releasing the program today in high-quality streaming video.
Watch MY FATHER MY BROTHER AND ME on the FRONTLINE Web site >>
Check out excerpts from the upcoming broadcast below:
Michael J. Fox shares the story of his diagnosis and how he copes from day to day.
IS EXERCISE THE ANSWER? Dave Iverson finds out what monkeys on treadmills are teaching scientists about Parkinson’s.
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