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  1. Public Media's Women and Girls Lead Campaign Hits PBS Airwaves this Fall

    September 15, 2011

    A pipeline of more than 50 documentaries over three years begins in October 2011 with thousands of local events and high-profile gatherings nationwide planned through 2012. ITVS announced the rollout of major national PBS broadcasts for its Women and Girls Lead campaign on Thursday. The three-year public media initiative will educate, focus, and…

  2. Announcing the Living Docs Project with Mozilla

    September 9, 2011

    ITVS and Mozilla have launched the Living Docs Project, a collaboration that supports independent producers to develop interactive documentaries.   The 'web documentary' genre has matured and evolved greatly in recent years, thanks in large part to technological advances that  empower creators with more robust production and storytelling tools…

  3. Now on Indies Showcase: Lost Boys of Sudan

    September 5, 2011

    Emmy Award-nominated documentary from  Jon Shenk and Megan Mylan follows two young refugees of Sudan’s civil war through their first year in America. Lost Boys of Sudan streams free until Sept. 7 on ITVS's Indies Showcase. Orphaned as boys by Sudan's civil war, Peter Dut and Santino Chuor survived lion attacks and gunfire to reach a Kenyan refugee camp…

  4. ITVS in the News

    July 22, 2011

    A sampling of coverage from Indiewire, Pop Matters, NCME and more…Indiewire: Two Spirits Receives the Audience Award from PBS-Independent Lens Lynda Nibley’s documentary Two Spirits has received the PBS-Independent Lens Audience Award, recognizing its status as the highest-rated film of the 2010-11 season by the measures of online voting and other…

  5. 2011 Independent Lens Audience Award Winner!

    July 5, 2011

    Your votes have been counted! Find out who won the Independent Lens Audience Award. At film festivals, the award that often matters most to filmmakers and their subjects alike is the Audience Award. They know they've struck a chord when the audience applauds their efforts. The race for the most coveted award of the year for Independent Lens came down to the…

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