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Community Classroom Offers Free Teaching Resources
March 24, 2010Can you own a sound? That is the provocative question raised in a new resource from ITVS Community Classroom: four lesson plans and film modules for Copyright Criminals , an innovative and dynamic documentary that explores the origins of sampling culture in hip-hop music, copyright, creativity, and technological change. This curriculum is an…
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Live Streaming Panel Discussion Focuses on the Role of Public Media
March 24, 2010What is the role of public media in local, national, and international reporting? On Thursday, March 25, from 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM ET, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is hosting a live streaming press event at Washington, DC's Newseum with NPR and PBS entitled "Public Media and Local Journalism: Meeting Community Information Needs."…
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Filmmaker Byron Hurt Turns Lens on Soul Food
March 23, 2010This month marks National Nutrition Month –– an annual campaign sponsored by the American Dietetic Association designed to focus attention on the importance of making informed food choices and developing sound eating and physical activity habits. ITVS recently funded filmmaker Byron Hurt (Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes) for his…
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Lost Souls (Animas Perdidas) Premiering Tonight on Independent Lens on PBS
March 23, 2010"With brave and brutal honesty, [Filmmaker Monika] Navarro, 31, turns the camera on her own clan as she explores a family history that embodies the best and worst of the relationship between the U.S. and Mexico." - Hispanic Magazine Augie and Gino were living the American dream -- raised and educated in the United States and proud veterans of the U.S.…
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Community Cinema Screens Dirt! The Movie in New York
March 22, 2010Last night, Community Cinema hosted a screening of the Independent Lens film Dirt! The Movie in New York City's Central Park. The film looks at how industrial farming, mining, and urban development have endangered soil and resulted in cataclysmic droughts, starvation, floods, and climate change. New York City Department of Parks & Recreation is…