ITVS and NBPC Present a Social Screening of Have You Heard from Johannesburg

Posted on January 12, 2012 by ITVS Staff

A special online-only screening of the film’s first installment will take place here at 1 PM PT/4 PM ET on Friday, January 13. Filmmaker Connie Field’s five-part series on the history of the global anti-apartheid movement premiered Thursday on Independent Lens.

ITVS and the National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC) are thrilled to welcome viewers to an interactive screening of Have You Heard from Johannesburg.

Held exclusively online, participants have the ability to sign in through Facebook (or directly on the site) and engage with each other in real time, while screening the film.
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Up Next on IL: Have You Heard from Johannesburg

Posted on January 12, 2012 by ITVS Staff

The five-part series by Connie Field chronicles the history of the global anti-apartheid movement. Watch the first two installments on Thursday, January 12 on PBS.

Have You Heard from Johannesburg examines the movement that took on South Africa’s entrenched apartheid regime and its international supporters who considered South Africa an ally in the Cold War.

Airing over three weeks, the five-part series chronicles the unprecedented international movement of citizen activists who fought for three decades to bring down the brutal, racist system of apartheid in South Africa when their governments would not.

NOTE: ITVS and the National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC) will host a special online-only social screening of the film following the broadcast at 1PM PT / 4PM ET on Friday, January 13. Click here for details!

A New Web Series from NBPC

Posted on August 17, 2011 by ITVS Staff

The National Black Programming Consortium has introduced a new web series called Black Folk Don’t — an anecdotal idea and concept based on negative stereotypes.

You can find the trailer for NBPC’s new series below…

Watch NBPC’s New Web-Only Series Mondo Black Online Now

Posted on July 6, 2011 by ITVS Staff

Mondo Black, a series from our partners at the National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC), is streaming now on blackpublicmedia.org.

Mondo Black is a series of interviews and travelogues providing glimpses into the unique and inspiring realms that black American life occupies in the new millennium. The series visits some of today’s most creative minds and traverses a wide cross-section of subject matter to bring the diversity of the modern black experience into sharp relief.
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AfroPop Series Continues with Mrs. Goundo’s Daughter

Posted on February 17, 2011 by ITVS Staff

The ITVS funded film airs this month on public television
Mrs. Goundo’s Daughter tells the story of one mother’s fight for political asylum in the U.S. to protect her daughter from female genital cutting, a traditional practice in her home country of Mali.

The documentary, by filmmakers Barbara Attie and Janet Goldwater, airs throughout February on Public Television. The film is part of the series AfroPop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange, produced by NBPC and co-presented by American Public Television (APT).

February is More Than a Month

Posted on February 2, 2011 by ITVS Staff

This month, BTB will be featuring films by and about African Americans and, in particular , work from the AfroPoP series produced by the National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC). Our work with this organization and filmmakers of color extend far beyond the month of February.

To start things off, here is an interview with African American filmmaker Shukree Hassan Tilghman, who traveled on a tongue-and-cheek, cross-country campaign to end Black History Month in the film More Than A Month. Watch the interview below.

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