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Special Community Screening of P-Star Rising
February 8, 2010A special community screening of the Independent Lens film P-Star Rising was recently held in Chicago. The film, which airs tomorrow night at 10:00 PM on Independent Lens on PBS, looks at nine-year-old Pricilla who wants to be the youngest female rap star ever and her single father who is determined to help her make it big. Find out what happened from…
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Join the Live Streaming Webcast Tonight: Myths of Filmmaking and Funding
February 8, 2010ITVS recently hosted a special live streaming webcast of the San Francisco Film Society (SFFS)’s Arts Forum, a bi-monthly workshop that includes dynamic presentations, topical panels, works-in-progress screenings, and trade secrets. The forum, entitled “Thinking Outside the Doc Box,” is designed to explode the myth that funders and broadcasters…
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Remembering the 42nd Anniversary of the Orangeburg Massacre
February 8, 2010Today marks the 42nd anniversary of the most unknown tragedy in the history of the civil rights movement. On 1968, police opened fire on the campus of South Carolina State University, leaving three young African American men dead and 27 wounded. Unlike a similar incident at Kent State, the incident did not make national headlines and there has never been an…
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Live Streaming Webcast: Exploring Myths of Filmmaking and Funding
February 5, 2010ITVS is hosting a special live streaming webcast on Monday, February 8 at 7:30 PM PST of the San Francisco Film Society (SFFS)’s Arts Forum, a bi-monthly workshop that includes dynamic presentations, topical panels, works-in-progress screenings, and trade secrets. Beyond the Box will be streaming the event live on Monday so filmmakers across the…
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Exclusive Video: Rapper P-Star Gives Advice to Young Musical Artists
February 4, 2010Next Tuesday, Feb. 9 at 10:00 PM the documentary P-Star Rising will have its national television premiere on Independent Lens on PBS (check local listings). This film is the final installment of Independent Lens’s Music Month celebration. Nine-year-old Priscilla wants to become the youngest female rap star ever. With her single father turned manager,…