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  1. Four ITVS Shorts Featured in PBS Online Film Festival

    February 22, 2012

    Beginning Monday February 27, PBS will launch its first Online Film Festival to showcase 20 short films from independent filmmakers. The festival will last until March 30 and can be accessed via the PBS website and PBS’s YouTube channel.              This is the first time PBS has produced a film festival exclusively for online content and with a focus on…

  2. Live Online Screening of The Interrupters

    February 20, 2012

    Kartemquin Films, PBS Frontline, and ITVS invite you to join the filmmakers and subjects of The Interrupters for a special live, online "social screening" of the film beginning at 5:30pm PT / 8:30pm ET. Follow this link to participate in the screening.             Watch The Interrupters Preview on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE.Participating in the…

  3. A Determined Filmmaker Returns to Open Call

    February 16, 2012

    Filmmaker 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.…

  4. PBS NewsHour & IL Present: A Social Screening of More Than a Month

    February 15, 2012

    Following the PBS broadcast premiere on Independent Lens — a social screening of the film will start at 12pm PT / 3pm ET on Friday, February 17. Filmmaker Shukree Tighlman will participate in the event, which is being produced in partnership by PBS NewsHour and Independent Lens. Follow this link to participate in the screening.        Watch End Black…

  5. Interrupt Violence: New Interactive Website for The Interrupters

    February 14, 2012

    Filmmaker Steve James' The Interrupters premieres on FRONTLINE Tuesday night on PBS. The ITVS-funded documentary looks at a group of men and women in Chicago — most of them former gang leaders and ex-cons — that are trying to "interrupt" shootings and protect their communities from the violence they once employed.  A companion site for the…

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