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Six ITVS Films Slated for P.O.V. This Season
July 1, 2010Don’t despair — Independent Lens may be on summer hiatus, but in its place is a riveting season of P.O.V. featuring some knockout ITVS productions. Get that season pass set up on your DVR if you haven’t already. Kicking off the regular season last week was William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe. Did you miss it? No worries, watch it here for free until Sept.…
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Pelosi, Other Luminaries Gather to Celebrate Bhutto
June 30, 2010Dennis Palmieri is director of communications for ITVS, and led the team that produced the Washington D.C. premiere of Bhutto at the headquarters of the National Geographic Society on June 29th. He reports from the event: Last night, ITVS hosted the Washington D.C. premiere of the landmark new documentary Bhutto, about the life, career, and tragic…
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Vilmos Zsigmond Answers Your Questions
June 29, 2010Iconic cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond — DP on such classics as The Deer Hunter, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind— sat down with Independent Lens to answer a few of the questions the audience posed to him earlier this season. Find out who his favorite directors and fellow cinematographers are, what’s wrong with American film…
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Ask Programming: Questions from Filmmakers
June 28, 2010ITVS programming staff answer questions from filmmakers about the funding process: Q. Does it help my application if I include letters of support from funders or letters of interest from broadcasters? A. No, do not waste your efforts in padding your application with letters of interest and support––these do not improve the quality of your application…
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In the News: The Latest on ITVS Programs
June 28, 2010Filmmaker Fears She's On U.S. Watch List The name "Laura Poitras" is familiar to Oscar judges, film festival juries, and security officers at U.S. airports, which is what happens when one directs critically acclaimed documentaries that require spending months in dangerous areas of the Middle East. Read more >>> War Insight, Beyond…