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  1. April is Parkinson's Awareness Month - Watch My Father, My Brother, and Me on PBS.org

    April 16, 2010

    As many as 1.5 million people in the United States are afflicted with Parkinson’ s Disease. And while research using stem cells shows promise and has resumed under the Obama Administration, there is still no cure. About $25 billion dollars is spent on the treatment of and care for Parkinsonian patients every year. In honor of Parkinson's Awareness Month, we…

  2. Ancient Tribe Uses Technology to Preserve the Rainforest on Children of the Amazon Website

    April 15, 2010

    “I want our story to continue as long as the world exists.” —Chief Almir Surui The documentary Children of the Amazon, broadcasting this month on public television and Link TV (check local listings), follows Brazilian filmmaker Denise Zmekhol as she travels deep into the Amazon in search of the indigenous children she photographed 15 years before.  A…

  3. Denise Zmekhol on the Making of Children of the Amazon

    April 14, 2010

    Children of the Amazon (airing this month on public television and Link TV -- check local listings) follows filmmaker Denise Zmekhol as she travels a modern highway deep into the Amazon in search of the indigenous children she photographed 15 years before. Her journey tells the story of what happened to life in the largest forest on Earth when a road was…

  4. Blessed is the Match Premieres Tonight on Independent Lens on PBS

    April 13, 2010

    "An absorbing story...[filmmaker Roberta] Grossman fashions the narration, interviews, and a wealth of archival footage into a coherent movie..." -Boston Globe Get to know this modern-day Joan of Arc. At age 22, Hannah Senesh parachuted into Nazi-occupied Europe in an effort to save the Jews of Hungary. As a poet and diarist, she left behind a body of work…

  5. ITVS screens FUTURESTATES in San Francisco

    April 12, 2010

    FUTURESTATES, ITVS’s new online fictional series, explores many of today’s complex social issues by imagining how they play out in the world of tomorrow. ITVS and media partner Next American City Magazine recently hosted a special invite-only, sneak-preview screening and panel discussion for FUTURESTATES at the Jellyfish Gallery in San Francisco.…

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