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Waiting for Health Care
May 22, 2012The following post was featured in Sunday's online edition of The New York Times. The report comes from Emmy Award-winning documentary Peter Nicks whose latest film The Waiting Room goes behind the doors of an American public hospital struggling to care for a community of largely uninsured patients. The film will air next season on PBS's Independent…
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Half the Sky Wins New Fans at PBS Annual Meeting
May 21, 2012Based on the bestselling book by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, Half the Sky will premiere as a special presentation on Independent Lens in October 2012. The project is a cornerstone of the Women and Girls Lead campaign and was on display at last week's PBS Annual Meeting in Denver. Just back from the PBS annual meeting in Denver and was absolutely…
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The Lexicon of Sustainability: Q & A with Filmmaker Douglas Gayeton
May 21, 2012Douglas Gayeton’s The Lexicon of Sustainability is a multiplatform project which uses photo collage, animation, and hand-written typography to explore terms and ideas behind sustainable agriculture. KQED's Jenny Oh interviewed Gayeton for Bay Area Bites on the inspiration behind the project, the creative visual aspect, and more.The visuals for…
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Comrade Duch: The Bookkeeper of Death, Sunday on Global Voices
May 18, 2012The ITVS-funded documentary by Adrian Maben premieres Sunday, May 20 on Global Voices on the WORLD Channel. Kaing Guek Eav (alias Duch) is a Jekyll-and-Hyde character who began as a mathematics teacher, and then became the commandant of Tuol Sleng prison in Cambodia, ultimately responsible for the torture and murder of 14,000 people. Comrade Duch: The…
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The ITVS Indies Roundup
May 18, 2012A 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…