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  1. DIY Distribution

    June 6, 2012

    ITVS's Rebecca Huval discusses research, news, and trends that come out of ITVS’s IndiesLab. If you have yet to reach the halls of filmmaking immortality (i.e., you aren’t a brand like Ken Burns), it might feel impossible to approach Netflix or iTunes on your own. Both companies receive a deluge of distribution requests from indies, and only the rare…

  2. Tales of the Waria Featured on Telegraph21

    June 4, 2012

    Recently, our friends at Telegraph21 highlighted Tales of the Waria in their t21 Weekly Feature, including video clips, an exclusive filmmaker interview, and screening information. Telegraph21’s Steffie Kinglake sat down with filmmaker Kathy Huang to discuss the documentary, which premiered last night on Global Voices. The filmmaker will…

  3. The ITVS Indies Roundup

    June 1, 2012

    A curated list of indie news and recommendations from ITVS’s Rebecca Huval. Want a work-related excuse to visit the Big Apple? Our friends at POV are hosting a hackathon for storytellers and developers on the weekend of August 11-12 in NYC. The call for participants opened this week, and the deadline is June 29. Thankfully, the filmmaker applications…

  4. Help Us Improve Our Community Classroom Materials for Educators

    June 1, 2012

    Community Classroom is an innovative and free resource for educators, offering short-form film modules adapted from ITVS's award-winning documentaries and standards-based lesson plans for high school and community colleges, NGOs, and youth organizations. Do you work with young people? Have you used our FREE resources for educators? Community…

  5. Tales of the Waria: Inside Indonesia's Third-Gender Community

    June 1, 2012

     Originally published on HuffingtonPost.comThe ITVS-funded documentary by Kathy Huang premieres Sunday, June 3 on Global Voices on the WORLD Channel. An online social screening and chat will be held on Monday, June 4 at 8pm ET/5pm PT with the filmmaker to discuss issues raised in the film.This past March the Associated Press broke an unexpected story…

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