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Introducing the FUTURESTATES Lesson Plans
November 1, 2010Educators: get back to the future with your students! Check out ITVS's online series FUTURESTATES, short films fusing an exploration of social issues with elements of speculative and science fiction. Free companion lesson plans for grades 9-12 are now available! Educators can access more lesson plans like this one, on the Community Classroom…
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Waste Land Opens in New York
October 28, 2010Lucy Walker’s Waste Land, which is part of this year’s lineup on Independent Lens, opens this Friday, October 29 at the Angelika Film Center in New York. The documentary tells the extraordinary tale of the Brazilian artist Vik Muniz and his journey to the largest landfill in the world to work with a community of people called catadores — pickers of recyclable…
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Several ITVS Films to Screen at IDFA
October 22, 2010The following ITVS films have been accepted to IDFA (International Documentary Festival in Amsterdam). Check out the films below and join us in congratulating all the filmmakers! The Team By Patrick Reed A look at a dramatic TV soap opera series, created after Kenya's violent 2007 presidential election, that Kenyans hope will help bridge deep ethnic…
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Frederick Wiseman Puts the Gloves On
October 21, 2010The ITVS-funded Boxing Gym by acclaimed filmmaker Frederick Wiseman starts its national theatrical run this Friday, October 22 at the IFC Center in New York. Wiseman’s hypnotic new film is about an Austin, Texas institution: Lord's Gym, which was founded 16 years ago by professional boxer Richard Lord. People of all ages, races, ethnicities, and social…
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Live Chat with Director Meghan Eckman
October 20, 2010Independent Lens kicked off its ninth season last night with the broadcast premiere of The Parking Lot Movie! The documentary, by first-time director Meghan Eckman, explores the rarefied world of one small parking lot in a college town, and the asphalt philosophers who work there. Love’em or laugh at ‘em these overeducated attendants find a way to over…