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  1. Digital Diaspora Family Reunion

    March 15, 2011

    A multimedia-driven social engagement project by Thomas Allen Harris  Filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris explains his latest creative project, Digital Diaspora, which is designed to maintain family history one photograph at a time. For 15 years, I have been making documentary films that mined my family and extended African Diasporic family archives to…

  2. ITVS Staffers Respond to Pushing the Elephant

    March 9, 2011

    ITVS staffers offer their take on the upcoming Independent Lens documentary.Tuesday marked the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day and to honor the occasion, BTB presented a live chat with PBS NewsHour on Women’s Empowerment. The documentary Pushing the Elephant (airing March 29 on Independent Lens) was featured prominently in the…

  3. SF International Film Festival Unveils Doc & New Directors Competitions

    March 4, 2011

    The 54th San Francisco International Film Festival runs April 21 through May 5. America’s longest-running film festival announced selections for its New Directors Feature Competition and the Golden Gate Awards Documentary Feature Competition. Among the titles selected for Best Documentary Feature is the ITVS-funded Better this World, which airs…

  4. Igniting the Classroom Through Film

    March 4, 2011

    This week, The San Francisco Film Society hosted an event that put filmmakers and educators in the same room.ITVS has been in and out of the classroom all week. On Wednesday, we hosted a live chat with high school seniors and an Independent Lens filmmaker, and on Tuesday night we streamed video/live blogged from the San Francisco Film Society’s event:…

  5. Film Arts Forum: Igniting the Classroom

    March 1, 2011

    San Francisco Film Society presents a panel discussion on educational media The 2011 series of the San Francisco Film Society’s Film Arts Forum kicks off with a focus on educational media: the filmmakers that produce it and the teachers who use it. Experts in media education from ITVS’s Community Classroom, local production companies and schools will…

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