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In the News: The Latest on ITVS Programs
October 26, 2009Correspondent Jeffrey Brown interviews Megum Sasaki, the director and producer of HERB & DOROTHY. [TRT: 7 minutes]. Listen now >> "Independent Lens begins its eighth season with Megumi Sasaki’s HERB & DOROTHY, about the unlikely art collectors Herb and Dorothy Vogel of New York, which Nathan Lee called a 'modest, touching…
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ITVS Explores the Global Water Crisis Beginning Tonight on The Documentary Channel
September 7, 2009Concerned about the global water crisis? Do you think the media could do a better job of telling the story? Be sure to watch an enlightening quartet of international documentaries designed to bring awareness and attention to the worldwide water crisis beginning tonight, September 7 at 9:00 PM on The Documentary Channel. Through the support of the John S.…
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In the News: The Latest on ITVS Programs
August 17, 2009“Like numerous makers of nonfiction film, [Bill] Benenson believes the critical platform for documentaries is television. Regardless of what happens to DIRT! The Movie in theaters, the film will be a part of next year's Earth Day programming presented by PBS and ITVS, the Independent Television Service." Read full review >>“SCARRED JUSTICE: The…
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Ithaca Community Cinema Reports on TAKING ROOT
May 21, 2009Ithaca Community Cinema recently held a screening of the Independent Lens film TAKING ROOT: The Vision of Wangari Maathai at S.T.A.M.P.'s Guerrilla Griots Human Rights Media Arts Center. TAKING ROOT tells the dramatic story of Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai whose simple act of planting trees grew into a global movement.…
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Recent Talkback About Independent Lens This Month
April 22, 2009Always thought-provoking, sometimes controversial, Independent Lens brings you documentaries, dramas, shorts and Web-exclusive projects made by independent thinkers. Check out some of the recent Talkback. TAKING ROOT: The Vision of Wangari Maathai "I have never felt such pride in my entire 36 years of life. I felt that this incredible story should…