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Open Call Funding Application Goes Digital
June 15, 2011As ITVS moves into its 20th year, the organization's largest funding initiative, Open Call, is making the switch to digital. Starting this summer, all materials must be submitted online, including video. What are the benefits of doing this? • Faster and more streamlined communication with ITVS staff. • Ability to track the progress of your project…
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A Working Mom Storms Through Global Voices
June 15, 2011Stacy Buchanan of WORLDCompass pinch hits for BTB with a preview of the upcoming broadcast A Working Mom on Global Voices. The documentary airs Sunday, June 19 on the WORLD Channel. Being a working mom rocks! We’re the ones chosen to advise policy, lead teams and manage projects. We make our own rules, run our own businesses, and raise our kids. We’re…
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Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund Announces Grantees
June 8, 2011The Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund provides finishing funds to feature-length documentaries which highlight and humanize issues of social importance from around the world. Starting four years ago as a partnership between Gucci and the Tribeca Film Institute, the fund aims to humanize socially important issues from around the world that aren't…
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Geena Davis Expects Women and Girls to Lead
June 2, 2011Oscar-winning Actor Geena Davis helped launch ITVS' Women and Girls Lead campaign at the PBS Annual meeting in Orlando, FL. Here, Davis describes why she has so much faith in the power of public media and the power of women and girls. During the conference, Davis discussed her own work on gender discrimination in media, as well as ITVS' multi-year…
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Revisiting Red White Black & Blue
May 30, 2011On this Memorial Day, we went rummaging through the archives to find Red White Black & Blue by filmmaker Tom Putnam, which aired back in 2007 on Independent Lens. The film examines a secret World War II battle that cost thousands of lives but was never revealed to the American public. In June 1942, less than a year after Pearl Harbor, the Japanese army…