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The ITVS Indies Roundup
May 11, 2012A curated list of indie news and recommendations from ITVS’s Rebecca Huval. Get your creativity on! Longshot Radio and Radiolab talked about creativity, revision, and failure at the 99% Conference in New York City last week. For your listening pleasure, they compiled their editors’ picks of podcasts from the event. Behold the TV of the future: using an…
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New Primetime Home for Indie Series Emerges From Independent Strategy Task Force Meetings
May 9, 2012ITVS president and CEO Sally Jo Fifer applauds year-round Monday slot on PBS core schedule to help meet first-order mission of public broadcasting. I’m pleased to report that the Independent Strategy Task Force has emerged from months of conversation to deliver a new 10 p.m. primetime slot on Monday nights for Independent Lens and POV. This is great news…
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Doc U: The Future of Docs on PBS
May 7, 2012On Thursday, May 10th, Independent Lens Senior Series Producer Lois Vossen will be speaking at the panel “Doc U: The Future of Docs on PBS” in Los Angeles. The event will be presented by the International Documentary Association.Independent Lens and POV have continually provided a broadcast slot of independent documentary films on PBS. In May 2011, due to…
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ITVS Announces Production of American Graduate Latino Programming
May 1, 2012The national public media initiative's goal is to address the growing Latino high school dropout crisis.Nationwide, Latino students face an increased risk of dropping out of school. 41 percent of Latinos ages 20 and older do not have a high school diploma, compared to 23 percent of blacks and 14 percent of whites. To address the growing high school dropout…
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The ITVS Indies Roundup
April 27, 2012A curated list of indie news and recommendations from ITVS’s Rebecca Huval. Good news continues to pour in from the passage of the JOBS Act. For example, indie filmmakers could raise up to one million dollars. Cue the Dr. Evil face. Can the art-form of cinéma vérité and Werner Herzog benefit from the input of technologists? MIT Open Documentary Lab thinks…