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Bhutto Producer Mark Siegel Reflects on Benazir Bhutto
Mark Siegel, co-producer of the documentary Bhutto, discusses his relationship with the former Prime Minister of Pakistan. The film, which aired last season on Independent Lens, earned a Peabody award earlier this month. Siegel and filmmaker Duane Baughman will accept the prestigious award on May 21 in New York.
Gunny Premieres on FUTURESTATES
Directed by Patrick Stettner the film will be available to stream for free at futurestates.tv and simultaneously on pbs.org.
A young female soldier returns home after a traumatic tour of duty, taking a new medication that can selectively erase memories. Learn more about Gunny from filmmaker Patrick Stettner in a recently conducted Skype interview, after the jump.
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A Full Frame Documentary Extravaganza
By Eric Martin
ITVS Senior Staff Writer Eric Martin, filed this report from the 2012 Full Frame Film Festival, which ran April 12-April 15 in Durham, N.C..
The Waiting Room held its world premiere at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
The Full Frame Film Festival turned 15 years old this year in Durham, N.C., where I happen to live right now, and it’s no surprise that the well-attended, four-day, 100+ documentary extravaganza, which ended Sunday, included a meaty slate of ITVS and Independent Lens projects packed with something for everyone.
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Filmmaker Marco Ricci Discusses The Reconstruction of Asa Carter
By Kate Sullivan Green
ITVS Broadcast & Distribution Manager
Filmmaker Marco Ricci
ITVS’s Kate Sullivan Green sits down with Marco Ricci to talk about the documentary The Reconstruction of Asa Carter.
Hundreds of thousands of readers have loved The Education of Little Tree, Forrest Carter’s memoir of his life as a Cherokee orphan. It turns out, however, that the book was written by an infamous white supremacist, Ace Carter, who penned George Wallace’s “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever” speech (among others).
Directed and produced by Marco Ricci, Douglas Newman, and Laura Browder, The Reconstruction of Asa Carter takes viewers on a journey through Asa Carter’s multiple lives to explore questions of race and identity in America. The documentary will air on public television starting in April. Check local listings.
When did you first learn about the secret lives of Asa/Ace/Forrest Carter?
In the early 1990s, Douglas was a student at college (where he met producer Laura Browder) and was assigned the book The Education of Little Tree. He’s reading it and his father is telling him the book is untrue while his professor is saying “No, no, no. That’s a rumor.” This is just as it was breaking in the national press. Douglas actually did a short documentary about it while in school too, then left it alone for 10 or 15 years. At that point we were working together on another project and he brought up the story. I thought it was incredible from both a film perspective and historical perspective. › Continue reading
Women and Girls Lead Presents Social Screening of Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes
Join us for the third and final film in the Women and Girls Lead Online Film Festival social screening series this Wednesday, March 28 at 1PM PT/4PM ET.
Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes filmmaker Byron Hurt
The event, which takes place exclusively online, will feature special guests Jimmie Briggs, founder and director of Man Up, and Dr. Kaila Story, Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at University of Louisville.
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. › Continue reading
Last Call to Apply for a U.S. INPUT Producer Fellowship
The deadline for applications to attend the 2012 INPUT in Sydney, Australia is Tuesday, April 2, 2012.
A limited number of INPUT 2012 Producer Fellowships will be awarded to U.S. public media producers to attend INPUT in Sydney, Australia on May 7 – 12, 2012. For more information about the U.S. INPUT Producer Fellowship application process, visit U.S INPUT managed by SCETV at or contact the U.S. INPUT National Coordinator Amy Shumaker.
INPUT is the International Public Television Screening Conference, an annual international forum for television professionals to discuss and challenge the boundaries of television in the public interest. Learn more about the INPUT 2012 conference here.
This project is made possible by funding from the Corporation for Public for Broadcasting.
The ITVS Indie Roundup
A curated list of indie news and recommendations from ITVS’s Jonathan Archer.
Miss SXSW? Catch up with all the keynotes and featured speakers online.
IndieWire shared The 8 Film Startups You Should Know From SXSW.
Nick DeMartino (formerly Director of AFI Digital Labs) asked, do we need “An Accelerator For Entertainment?” One of the more interesting and provocative ideas going around these days…
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Feedback from a SXSW Rookie
By Robin Suchman
Digital Projects Manager, ITVS
The South by Southwest (SXSW) Conferences & Festivals (March 9-18, 2012) offer the unique convergence of original music, independent films, and emerging technologies.
As the line between film and digital projects continues to blur, it makes perfect sense that the Interactive and Film portions of SXSW run concurrently (along with ScreenBurn- the gaming tract), followed closely by the Music portion. Social TV, the crossover between television viewing and social media, was a topic mentioned quite often during many of the sessions I attended.
Although this was my first time at SXSW (and Austin), I heard that the Interactive portion has grown quite significantly over the past few years; now being held in nine different locations with complimentary shuttles for badge holders to move freely between them (although I preferred to walk, despite the persistent rain!). Moreover, the Interactive conference is broken down into 18 different themes, each being housed in a specific building, so you really do not need to move between the different buildings if you intend to focus on a single track. › Continue reading
Women and Girls Lead Presents an Online Social Screening of Troop 1500
Join us for an online social screening of Troop 1500 this Wednesday, March 21 at 1PM PT/4PM ET.
Girl Scout Jasmine filming during the making of TROOP 1500
The event, which takes place exclusively online, will feature special guests Robin Hewes, Program Director of the Beyond Bars Girl Scouts Program in Austin, TX (where Troop 1500 is based), Karen Berstein, co-producer of the film, and one of the young women from Troop 1500.
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. › Continue reading
ITVS in the News
Coverage of ITVS and Independent Lens from Monday’s edition of The New York Times.
The New York Times: PBS Shifts in Time Slots Hurts Series of Films
The home page of PBS.org in recent days has highlighted a new feature, the PBS Online Film Festival. But the prime-time schedule for PBS this television season has, in the eyes of some, effectively marginalized its two award-winning independent film series: “Independent Lens,” which started its new season last October, and “POV,” which will begin new episodes June 21. Continue Reading >>>
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