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Watch POWER TRIP on Global Voices on PBS WORLD
June 12, 2009Amid pervasive blackouts and corruption, an American energy company purchases a formerly state-run electricity company in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. Cultures clash, tempers flare, and managers and locals tussle as a struggling nation attempts to build itself from beneath the rubble of Soviet collapse. ''POWER TRIP, Paul Devlin's…
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Open Call Recipients: Michael Collins and Marty Syjuco, Filmmakers of GIVE UP TOMORROW
June 11, 2009ITVS’s Open Call provides finishing funds for single non-fiction or animation public television programs on any subject and from any viewpoint. Projects must have begun production as evidenced by a work-in-progress video. Check out the clip below with filmmakers Michael Collins and Marty Syjuco, who received Open Call funds for their film GIVE UP…
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International Report From the Field with Cynthia Kane
June 10, 2009The 49th Krakow Film Festival kicked off with Paul Mazursky’s Yippee: A Journey to Jewish Joy as its opening night film, which was followed almost immediately by the Polish premiere of UNMISTAKEN CHILD, an ITVS International co-production with filmmaker Nati Baratz who introduced the film to the jammed-packed theater with renowned Polish director…
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ITVS Joins Filmmakers and Partners at the Geneva Forum on Social Change
June 10, 2009ITVS and the University of Geneva's International Organizations MBA Program, in collaboration with the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School and the U.S. Mission to Geneva, recently presented the Geneva Forum on Social Change at the Geneva International Conference Centre in Geneva, Switzerland. More than 1,000 people attended to discuss key issues facing…
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Webcast Panel Discussion: Documentaries and Cultural Diplomacy
June 9, 2009Despite the proliferation of global media sources, many viewers in the United States and abroad remain relatively isolated, relying on local outlets for local stories with local points-of-view. What strategies can or should the media use to bridge the international divide and to inspire education, trust and collaborative action? On Friday, June 5,…