Tag: ITVS
More than airtime: Documentary producers search for new frontiers of engaging audiences
During a conference at the U.S. Institute of Peace Feb. 28, the makers of human rights documentaries discussed the techniques and challenges ...A growing push for data-driven documentary filmmaking
Wendy Levy, the director of arts consultancy group New Arts AXIS, called for documentary filmmakers to embrace big data tools as a ...Great Expectations exceeds expectations by winning four of PBS’s 11 Creative Arts Primetime Emmys
As a Masterpiece production competing against other miniseries, movies and specials, Great Expectations received Emmys for outstanding achievement in costume design (Annie Symons, Yvonne Duckett), art direction ...Film captures a city in turmoil, recovery
Producers of the documentary As Goes Janesville found themselves, quite by accident, in the midst of three national news stories during filming.ITVS prepares for beta tests of enhanced OVEE
An infusion of CPB funding is allowing the Independent Television Service to add more features to OVEE, the online engagement tool that ...CPB provides ITVS with grant to complete OVEE work
The CPB Board of Directors approved a supplementary grant of $575,000 June 14 to the Independent Television Service for completion of its ...StoryCorps’ multiplatform production on the anniversary of 9/11 earned a prize for public radio and ...
The Peabody-winning segment aired on NPR’s Morning Edition and featured interviews that had been adapted as animated shorts for PBS’s POV. The award, one ...Purposeful Loni Ding
Loni Ding, 78, a filmmaker who brought issues of Asian American identity to the surface, and to PBS, and helped win legislation ...One story with 1,700 authors
Cars burn in downtown Nashville. Police patrol Boise after massive power outages, widespread looting and near-riots. Our intrepid video correspondent, Kal, rides ...Obituary: Larry Hall, 74, advocate for independent producers
A leading advocate for independent producers and openness in the governance of public broadcasting, Laurence S. Hall died Feb. 21 [2004] after ...Twin ITVS goals: capturing diversity on videotape, getting it seen
Last year was a good year for the Independent Television Service. ITVS had weathered its first 10 years as a funder and ...Video center chief Fifer will lead ITVS
ITVS, the CPB-funded organization operating in the tricky middle-ground between independent filmmakers and public TV stations, has appointed a leader in the ...James Yee succumbs after long struggle with cancer
James T. Yee, former executive director of the Independent Television Service (ITVS) died March 17 in Piedmont, Calif., after an 18-month battle ...Now independent producers have role in funding
Independent Television Service (ITVS) announced this week its first round of 25 grants to independent TV producers. The projects will bring to the ...ITVS issues first round of grants
...The announcement is a landmark in a long struggle for public TV producers outside of stations to gain an official place in ...
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