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1. The ITVS Indies Roundup

   May 18, 2012

   A curated list of indie news and recommendations from ITVS’s Rebecca Huval. Are you obsessed with GIFs yet? If you’re not, now’s the time to start. PBS Off Book produced an excellent primer into the art of the moving still image, known as the Graphic Interchange Format, from its uncool, corporate beginnings in the 1990s to its current heyday. Here’s a…

2. The ITVS Indies Roundup

   May 11, 2012

   A 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…

3. The ITVS Indies Roundup

   May 4, 2012

   A curated list of indie news and recommendations from ITVS’s Rebecca Huval. Sadly, film festivals are wrapping up this week. Hot Docs in Toronto, the largest North American documentary festival, closes this weekend. The event brimmed with films about edgy artists, such as Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry. At Hot Docs today, filmmakers are protesting the…

4. The ITVS Indies Roundup

   April 27, 2012

   A 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…

5. The ITVS Indies Roundup

   April 20, 2012

   A curated list of indie news and recommendations from ITVS’s Rebecca Huval. ‘Tis the season for film festivals: Both the Tribeca Film Festival and the San Francisco International Film Festival kicked off this week. Read an enlightening interview of three Tribeca staffers to get a sense of how they winnowed down their film festival choices. “We don’t…