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  1. Join Us in December. . . .Without Having to Leave Your Desk or Home!

    December 4, 2012

    Starting tomorrow, ITVS is hosting a series of online film screenings called the Sci-Fi Lunch Break Series. Each Wednesday at 12pm ET, short films from the third season of the acclaimed FUTURESTATES series will be screened through OVEE, ITVS's social screening platform. Imagining tomorrow’s America today, FUTURESTATES is a series of independent…

  2. On the Road with Community Classroom

    November 30, 2012

    November was a busy month for Community Classroom, the ITVS program dedicated to creating educational film resources for use in high schools, colleges, and community settings. We took Community Classroom on the road to three annual educator conferences, including the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS), National Council for Teachers of…

  3. The ITVS Indie Roundup

    November 30, 2012

    A curated list of indie news and recommendations from ITVS’s Rebecca Huval.POV is drumming up excitement over the results of its “Greatest Documentaries of All Time” poll. Filmmakers are discussing the documentaries that mean the most to them, including Marshall Curry on Sherman’s March: “It pulled back the curtain on the filmmaking process and…

  4. Welcome to the World, Tonight on Why Poverty?

    November 28, 2012

    130 million babies are born each year, and not one of them decides where they'll be born or how they'll live. Welcome to the World premieres tonight as part of the Why Poverty? series special on Global Voices. Apart from those in the medical profession, there can’t be many men in the world who have seen as many babies born as I did this year. It all started when I…

  5. Poor Us: An Animated History of Poverty

    November 27, 2012

    The poor may always have been with us, but attitudes towards them have changed. Beginning in the Neolithic Age, Ben Lewis's film Poor Us, which premieres tonight as part of the Why Poverty? series special on Global Voices, takes us through the changing world of poverty. You go to sleep, you dream, you become poor through the ages. And when you awake, what…

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