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  1. AfroPop Series Continues with Mrs. Goundo’s Daughter

    February 17, 2011

    The ITVS funded film airs this month on public television Mrs. Goundo’s Daughter tells the story of one mother’s fight for political asylum in the U.S. to protect her daughter from female genital cutting, a traditional practice in her home country of Mali. The documentary, by filmmakers Barbara Attie and Janet Goldwater, airs throughout February on…

  2. The Ultimate Cultural Exchange, Tonight on AfroPoP

    February 2, 2011

    The National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC) keeps the premieres coming at you this season with their series AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange. Tonight starts in Columbia with a single-mother fighting some big odds in Uprooted and ends with Soweto train surfing in Sanza Hanza (King Surfer). Stick with AfroPoP tonight on your local WORLD…

  3. Pushing the Elephant Goes to DC

    September 21, 2010

    This past Wednesday and Thursday, September 15th and 16th, the filmmakers of Pushing the Elephant (PTE), Beth Davenport and Elizabeth Mandel, and their main subject, Rose Mapendo, traveled to Washington DC  — in cooperation with ITVS — to raise awareness around violence against women and girls internationally. Also along were Rose's brother,…

  4. Inside a Soccer Soap Opera in Africa

    June 24, 2010

    With World Cup fever upon us, Patrick Reed, director of the upcoming ITVS International production The Team, describes filming the making of a soap opera about soccer in Kenya. The fictional program was intended to unite and distract Kenyans in the aftermath of violence following the 2007 elections. The film is still in production. With the 2010 World Cup…

  5. ITVS Celebrates Black History Month

    January 27, 2010

    ITVS and PBS offers viewers the opportunity to explore the rich and vibrant history and cultural contributions of African Americans throughout the year, but this month offers a special slate of new and encore programs in honor of Black History Month. Independent Lens brings race to the forefront with four new films in February. Herskovits at the Heart of…

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