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  1. The ITVS Indies Roundup

    May 11, 2012

    A curated list of indie news and recommendations from ITVS’s Rebecca Huval. Get your creativity on! Longshot Radio and Radiolab talked about creativity, revision, and failure at the 99% Conference in New York City last week. For your listening pleasure, they compiled their editors’ picks of podcasts from the event. Behold the TV of the future: using an…

  2. The ITVS Indies Roundup

    May 4, 2012

    A curated list of indie news and recommendations from ITVS’s Rebecca Huval. Sadly, film festivals are wrapping up this week. Hot Docs in Toronto, the largest North American documentary festival, closes this weekend. The event brimmed with films about edgy artists, such as Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry. At Hot Docs today, filmmakers are protesting the…

  3. The ITVS Indies Roundup

    April 27, 2012

    A curated list of indie news and recommendations from ITVS’s Rebecca Huval. Good news continues to pour in from the passage of the JOBS Act. For example, indie filmmakers could raise up to one million dollars. Cue the Dr. Evil face. Can the art-form of cinéma vérité and Werner Herzog benefit from the input of technologists? MIT Open Documentary Lab thinks…

  4. A Filmmaker’s Embrace of Nonlinear Storytelling

    March 30, 2012

    Musa Syeed is one of the hottest up and coming filmmaking talents in the U.S. His work includes documentaries such as A Son's Sacrifice, Bronx Princess, and a narrative feature, Valley of Saints — which is currently on the festival circuit. He has also been experimenting with new, interactive forms of storytelling, and we asked him to write about his…

  5. POV's 2012 Documentary Lineup Revealed

    March 26, 2012

    POV has just announced the slate of documentaries for its 25th season on PBS, starting in June. Since POV went on the air in 1988, it has championed the documentary art form, offering filmmakers a venue to take creative risks. It's where you've seen work from documentary greats including Errol Morris, Jonathan Demme, Albert and David Maysles, Michael…

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