Press Releases

Visit the program website (New York/San Francisco)— Making her feature debut, writer-director Joy Dietrich, also a Korean adoptee, introduces audiences to the world of Asian American young women and delicately addresses the abnormally high rates of depression and suicide among Asian American girls, creating a work of great compassion and poetic…

(San Francisco)—The Independent Television Service (ITVS) announced today that three of its acclaimed films are among the winners of the George Foster Peabody Awards for 2007. The Peabody Awards are the oldest and one of the most prestigious honors in electronic media. The three films being honored this year bring the grand total of ITVS Peabody Awards to…

Visit the companion Website >> (San Francisco, CA)—From dashboard dolls to old Hollywood movies, we’re all familiar with romanticized images of Hawaiian women dancing the hula. Yet few are aware that in ancient times, men also learned the dance, along with the martial arts of battle. Lisette Kaualena Flanary’s NA KAMALEI: The Men of Hula goes…

(New York/San Francisco)—The documentary OH, SAIGON is the story of a family torn apart by the Vietnam War attempting to reconcile after decades of separation and political division. In 2000, the narrator, Doan, seeks to investigate her family’s dysfunction, filming her family in America and in Vietnam. Doan and her family were airlifted on the last…

Visit the companion Website >> (San Francisco, CA)—Poignant and revealing, WATER FLOWING TOGETHER tells the story of one of the most influential modern ballet dancers—New York City Ballet’s Jock Soto. The debut film by acclaimed photographer Gwendolen Cates, WATER FLOWING TOGETHER will have its broadcast premiere on the Emmy Award–winning…