Press Releases

(San Francisco, CA)—Independent Television Service (ITVS) announced today that four of its acclaimed films received nominations for the 30th annual News and Documentary Emmy® Awards. The awards recognize outstanding achievement in broadcast journalism during the 2008 calendar year. Since 1997, ITVS programs have garnered 13 wins in the News and…

(San Francisco)—Four-time Emmy® Award–winning PBS series Independent Lens announced today that two of its acclaimed films have been nominated for the 30th annual News and Documentary Emmy® Awards. The awards recognize outstanding achievement in broadcast journalism during the 2008 calendar year. To date, the series has won three Emmys® in the News…

(San Francisco, CA)—The Independent Television Service’s Emmy® and Peabody Award–winning series Independent Lens will be prominently featured at the upcoming Television Critics Association (TCA) press tour, scheduled for August 2009 in Pasadena, California. Independent Lens, now entering its eighth consecutive season, airs nationally on PBS on…

Visit the companion website >> (San Francisco, CA)—Global Voices, airing on the PBS WORLD Channel, presents an encore presentation of Kartemquin Films’ THE NEW AMERICANS, the seven-hour, critically acclaimed documentary miniseries that follows four years in the lives of a diverse group of immigrants and refugees as they make the age-old…

Visit the companion website >> (San Francisco, CA) – Hip Hop music has the ability to give a voice to the disenfranchised in any country, and as music with a message it is a form available to all societies worldwide. Directed by New York-based filmmakers, Loira Limbal and Virgilio Bravo, ESTILO HIP HOP chronicles the lives of three hip hop enthusiasts…