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Open Call Recipient: Eric Neudel, Filmmaker of LIVES WORTH LIVING
September 24, 2009ITVS funds, distributes and promotes new programs produced by independent producers primarily for public television and beyond. Eric Neudel produced and directed LIVES WORTH LIVING, which looks at the life of Fred Fay, a quadriplegic, and the small group of activists who formed the Disability Rights Movement and Fay’s role. Neudel received ITVS’s Open…
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Reminder: ITVS Diversity Development Funding, Deadline on Friday
September 23, 2009ITVS funds, distributes and promotes new programs primarily for public television. We work with independent producers to create and present programs that take creative risks, advance issues and represent points of view not usually seen on public or commercial television. The Diversity Development Fund provides up to $15,000 in research and…
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College Success Tips: Rocky Otoo From A BRONX PRINCESS Airing Tonight on P.O.V. on PBS
September 22, 2009"Compelling... [A] coming-of-age documentary from filmmakers Yoni Brook and Musa Syeed," - Los Angeles TimesA BRONX PRINCESS, airing tonight, Tuesday, September 22 at 10:00 PM on P.O.V. on PBS (check local listings), follows Rocky Otoo's journey as she leaves behind her mother in New York City to reunite with her royal father in Ghana, West Africa and…
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Tips on Attending IFP with Senior Programming Manager Richard Saiz
September 22, 2009After debuting with a program in the 1979 New York Film Festival, the nonprofit IFP has evolved into the nation's oldest and largest organization of independent filmmakers, and also the premier advocate for them. Richard Saiz, senior programming manager at the Independent Television Service (ITVS) offers tips for those who are attending the IFP market…
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Exclusive Video: Special Presentation of OUR DISAPPEARED, airing Tonight on Independent Lens
September 21, 2009They dreamed of a revolution that would transform Argentina. But what exactly happened to this hopeful generation who suddenly “disappeared"? Thirty years after leaving his native country of Argentina, director Juan Mandelbaum discovers that a former college girlfriend was among the thousands abducted, tortured and “disappeared” during the…