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Tracy Tragos

ITVS marks its 11th year at the Sundance Film Festival, the renowned showcase for independent films, by screening four documentaries. Sundance 2005 will feature Marion Lipschutz and Rose Rosenblatt’s THE EDUCATION OF SHELBY KNOX, Eric Black and Frauke Sandig’s FROZEN ANGELS, and Hank Rogerson and Jilann Spitzmiller’s SHAKESPEARE BEHIND BARS in the documentary competition, and the online documentary BEYOND THE FIRE: TEEN EXPERIENCES OF WAR, an Electric Shadows project presented by ITVS, created and produced by Sesh Kannan, and developed by Free Range Graphics, in the Sundance Online Film Festival. Congrats to all!

Tracy Tragos’s BE GOOD, SMILE PRETTY received a 2004 News and Documentary Emmy. A LInCS co-presentation with KCPT/Kansas City, be good, smile pretty aired on Independent Lens last fall. Congratulations to Tracy and to all who worked on her film.

Filmmaker Johnny Symons received a News and Documentary Emmy nomination for his film, DADDY & PAPA, which aired on Independent Lens in spring 2003.

IMELDA
IMELDA
Kartemquin Films’ The New Americans received an IDA Award for Best Limited Series. The series’ companion website garnered an Exploratorium Ten Cool Sites Award for Educational Excellence. Ramona S. Diaz’s IMELDA also reaped an IDA Award—as the winner of the ABC News Video Source competition for a film using historic footage to tell a story.

Four ITVS-funded programs were recipients of Cine Golden Eagle Awards: Lisette Marie Flanary and Evann Siebens’s AMERICAN ALOHA, Patricia Flynn and Mary Jo McConahay’s DISCOVERING DOMINGA, Linda Goode Bryant and Laura Poitras’s FLAG WARS, and Jocelyn Glatzer and Christine Courtney’s THE FLUTE PLAYER.

Congrats to Jessica Yu, whose IN THE REALMS OF THE UNREAL was nominated for a 2004 IFP Gotham Award for Best Film, Documentary.

Rodney Evans’s BROTHER TO BROTHER, which will air on Independent Lens this spring, has recently received a number of awards, including Grand Jury Prize for Best Feature at the Philadelphia Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Grand Jury Award for Outstanding Narrative Feature at Outfest, a Vanguard Award at NewFest and an Audience Award at Frameline.

SUMO EAST AND WEST
The companion website for Ferne Pearlstein and Robert Edwards’s SUMO EAST AND WEST was recently featured in The Scout Report. The site was also selected as a Yahoo! Pick of the Day and a USA Today Hot Site.



And a round of applause for BEYOND THE FIRE: TEEN EXPERIENCES OF WAR. An Electric Shadows project presented by ITVS Interactive, created and produced by Sesh Kannan, and designed by Free Range Graphics, the site has been selected as a Netscape Cool Site of the Day and a USA Today Hot Site.


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