Press Releases

  1. Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene to Premiere on February 3, 2009, on the Emmy® Award–Winning PBS Series Independent Lens

    January 7, 2009

    Visit the companion website >> (San Francisco, USA)—Between 1967 and 1983, an unvarnished media voice roared through the airwaves of our nation’s capital. First on radio, then on television, Petey Greene spoke to and for people who had often been voiceless. A two-time Emmy® Award winner, Greene overcame drug addiction and a sentence for armed…

  2. The Order of Myths Reveals Parallel Black and White Worlds of Mardi Gras Secret Societies in Mobile, Alabama

    January 7, 2009

    Visit the companion website >> (San Francisco, CA)—In Mobile, Alabama, home of the oldest Mardi Gras celebration in the United States, tradition runs deep. As winter surrenders to the rites of spring, the city buzzes and flutters with floats, parades, bal masques and secret mystic societies with names like the Striker’s Independent Society, the…

  3. Tulia, Texas to Have its Television Premiere on the Emmy® Award–Winning PBS Series Independent Lens on Tuesday, February 10, 2009

    January 7, 2009

    Visit the companion website >> (San Francisco, CA)—A product of the nation’s “war on drugs,” narcotics agent Tom Coleman was hired to work undercover in a now-infamous drug sting operation in Tulia, Texas. On July 23, 1999, Coleman executed one of the biggest drug busts in Texas history; by the end of that blazing summer day, dozens of residents of the…

  4. ITVS Announces New Projects Selected for Funding Through ITVS International Call 2008

    December 17, 2008

    (San Francisco, CA)—Independent Television Service (ITVS) announced today that it has contracted with five projects from its recently completed ITVS International Call 2008, with two more projects expected to be announced soon. The films selected to receive production funding rose to the top during a highly competitive application process, which…

  5. Emmy® Award–Winning PBS Series Independent Lens to Showcase Two Powerful Films about Race at the January 2009 Television Critics Association Press Tour

    December 11, 2008

    (San Francisco, CA)—Independent Television Service’s Emmy® Award–winning series Independent Lens will be prominently featured as part of the PBS lineup at the upcoming Television Critics Association (TCA) press tour scheduled for January 2009 in Beverly Hills, California. Independent Lens, hosted by Terrence Howard and now in its seventh…