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A Storified Account of Women and Girls Lead in Action
March 8, 2012ITVS and CARE presented a powerful screening of Pray the Devil Back to Hell on Wednesday night in Washington D.C. and via Livestream. ITVS's Rebecca Huval combed through the tweets and online chatter to provide this storified account, which you can find after the jump.[<a…
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A Message from Mary Louise Parker on International Women's Day
March 8, 2012The Independent Lens host invites you to celebrate International Women's Day and ITVS's public media campaign — Women and Girls Lead. Show your support for the initiative (literally!) by adding the campaign’s banner to your Facebook profile for 24 hours in celebration of International Women's Day. You can find the images on the Women and Girls Lead…
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FUTURESTATES Returns! Seven Visions of the Future from Seven Cutting-Edge Indie Filmmakers
March 6, 2012If you were given a glimpse into the future, would it change the way you live today? Returning for a third season, the FUTURESTATES series offers a new collection of seven fictional shorts that explore possible future scenarios through the lens of today’s global realities. Produced by ITVS and created by such established filmmakers as Patrick Stettner,…
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CARE & ITVS Present: Pray the Devil Back to Hell
March 5, 2012Women and Girls Lead and CARE are partnering for a special live online screening of the PBS documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell (part of the recent Women War & Peace series), followed by a live panel discussion with Executive Producer Abigail Disney, PBS CEO Paula Kerger, and CARE President Helene Gayle. The event will take place on the eve of…
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A Determined Filmmaker Returns to Open Call
February 16, 2012Filmmaker Judith Helfand's latest documentary Cooked was one of a dozen projects accepted into ITVS's latest round of Open Call funding. She offered BTB this roundup of the producer's orientation, held last week in San Francisco.I started writing this amidst the din of the one week orientation for filmmakers funded through ITVS’ most recent Open Call.…