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  1. Optimistic Daredevils for Social Change

    April 19, 2012

    The filmmakers and stars of the ITVS-funded documentary The Revolutionary Optimists were models for social change at TEDxChange and the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, where they introduced Map Your World, the new transmedia project inspired by the film.  A short piece from the film was created for TEDxChange, an event co-hosted by the…

  2. Gunny Premieres on FUTURESTATES

    April 17, 2012

    Directed by Patrick Stettner the film will be available to stream for free at futurestates.tv and simultaneously on pbs.org.  A young female soldier returns home after a traumatic tour of duty, taking a new medication that can selectively erase memories. Learn more about Gunny from filmmaker Patrick Stettner in a recently conducted Skype interview,…

  3. A Full Frame Documentary Extravaganza

    April 16, 2012

    Eric Martin, filed this report from the 2012 Full Frame Film Festival, which ran April 12-April 15 in Durham, N.C.The Full Frame Film Festival turned 15 years old this year in Durham, N.C., where I happen to live right now, and it’s no surprise that the well-attended, four-day, 100+ documentary extravaganza, which ended Sunday, included a meaty slate of…

  4. The ITVS Indies Roundup

    April 13, 2012

    A curated list of indie news and recommendations from ITVS’s Rebecca Huval. Happy poetry month! Read about the “greatest poetry documentary of all time,” according to the Poetry Foundation: Ron Mann’s 1982 Poetry in Motion. A new interactive documentary called Barcode is a carnival funhouse of films. Thirty filmmakers produced 100 docs about the…

  5. Global Voices Tackles Kony, Women’s Issues, and More

    April 12, 2012

    Global Voices returns for a fifth season begnning Sunday, May 6 at 10 PM with Peace vs Justice, a film that examines the local and international efforts made to stop Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Africa.  ITVS has announced the lineup for the fifth season of Global Voices, the international documentary television series airing on the…

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