Tag: ITVS
How DocScale helps filmmakers and stations measure impact of their work
A media evaluation tool developed by ITVS gives producers new insights on issues that audiences want to talk about.How public TV can strengthen its alliance with independent filmmakers
A new report from the Center for Media & Social Impact reveals passions and pains of the creative community’s relationship with public ...ITVS wins Peabody award
ITVS is being recognized for transforming the media landscape and supporting timeless work.Walker leaves AIR for ITVS, Lapin departs Current, and other comings and goings in public ...
The Independent Television Service has hired Noland Walker, former executive editor of the Association of Independents in Radio’s Localore project, as senior ...Subject of ITVS’s Invisible War thanks pubTV programmers
Kori Cioca said the film's distributor gave her emotional support after she was raped while serving in the U.S. Coast Guard.Patrick Baroch, ITVS community engagement producer, dies at 45
Baroch joined the organization in 2005 and was part of the engagement crew that launched the Community Cinema program.Women and Girls Lead goes global, extending outreach to five countries
Women and Girls Lead, a public media–based outreach and empowerment program, has evolved into a broader international effort, seeking to drive positive ...Panelists testify to inspiring global power of documentary films
This article has been updated and reposted with additional information. Women and Girls Lead Global, a public media–based international outreach program, is ...Localore project Black Gold Boom gets funding for 2014 documentary, transmedia work
The grant will fund a film focusing mainly on the oil boom's effects on Native tribes.Focus on anti-terrorism becomes ‘life-changing’ story for filmmaker Poitras
After plumbing the global repercussions of America’s war against terrorism, documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras helped expose how that war has stripped away ...Citizen Koch ends Kickstarter campaign with more than double its goal
Citizen Koch, a documentary about the influence of money in politics, closed its 30-day Kickstarter campaign with more than double its initial ...Rejected by ITVS, Citizen Koch rakes in Kickstarter dough
Citizen Koch, a documentary about the growing influence of money in politics that lost a pot of planned public TV funding in ...AFI Docs festival screens diverse pubTV films
Public TV was less visible at this year's American Film Institute documentary festival. Yet several of the 10 films that had received ...Scarce funding limits public media’s response to gun debate
The mass shootings last year in Colorado, Wisconsin and Connecticut reawakened Americans to recurring tragedies of gun violence and rekindled a national ...POV announces 26th season lineup, plans a move to Mondays
After a season of bad press following PBS’s much-maligned 2012 decision to move its flagship independent documentary program POV from Tuesday nights to Thursdays, ...
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