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  1. Help Us Improve Our Community Classroom Materials for Educators

    June 1, 2012

    Community Classroom is an innovative and free resource for educators, offering short-form film modules adapted from ITVS's award-winning documentaries and standards-based lesson plans for high school and community colleges, NGOs, and youth organizations. Do you work with young people? Have you used our FREE resources for educators? Community…

  2. POV Hackathon Call for Participants is Now Open!

    June 1, 2012

    POV has announced its first "Hackathon," an opportunity for filmmakers and web developers to come together and re-invent documentary for the web.POV (Point of View), the award-winning independent documentary series celebrating its 25th anniversary on PBS this year, is reaching out to documentary filmmakers who have projects at any stage of…

  3. Preview: POV’s 25th Season

    May 23, 2012

    Launched in 1988 to showcase new and challenging point-of-view documentaries on PBS, POV (Point of View) has grown to become American television’s longest-running series dedicated to contemporary nonfiction programming.            Watch POV Season 25 Preview on PBS. See more from POV.POV launches its 25th season on Thursday, June 21, 2012 at 10 PM (check…

  4. The ITVS Indies Roundup

    May 18, 2012

    A curated list of indie news and recommendations from ITVS’s Rebecca Huval. Are you obsessed with GIFs yet? If you’re not, now’s the time to start. PBS Off Book produced an excellent primer into the art of the moving still image, known as the Graphic Interchange Format, from its uncool, corporate beginnings in the 1990s to its current heyday. Here’s a…

  5. A Look at the World Through Israeli Documentaries

    May 17, 2012

    Since its inception in 1999, DocAviv has become one of the leading cultural events in Israel with the aim of promoting Israeli and international documentary film. ITVS’s Claire Aguilar attended the 2012 DocAviv International Film Festival May 3-12, as a juror for Israeli Competition. Over the last 10 years, Israel has become one of the leading sources of…

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