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Mourning the Loss of Robert West
June 6, 2013We deeply regret to announce the death of Robert West, who passed away peacefully in his home Thursday morning.Robert has been part of the ITVS family since the late 1990’s, when he worked as an Outreach Coordinator for the later-branded Community Cinema program. During the years that Robert was a part of the ITVS enterprise, he brought a level of commitment…
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ITVS Responds to The New Yorker article on Park Avenue and Citizen Koch
May 28, 2013In the past week, The New Yorker published an article drawing a connection between corporate influence and freedom of expression that has generated a flurry of press coverage. ITVS appreciates the scrutiny of the important issue of corporate influence on public broadcasting, and indeed on media in general. As a majority-publicly-funded institution,…
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Newly Funded: ITVS is Pleased to Announce Funding for Almost There
May 8, 2013ITVS recently approved funding for Almost There, a documentary by filmmakers Dan Rybicky (Director/Producer) and Aaron Wickenden (Director/Producer). Outsider artist Peter Anton, 82, has spent decades obsessively chronicling his rollercoaster of a life into a massive, illustrated autobiography, and nothing — not poverty, isolation, or…
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Our Tribute to Robert West
April 5, 2013In addition to co-founding his own extraordinary organization, Working Films, Robert West worked for ITVS in the late 1990s as one of our field organizers in what was then our Community Connections Project (later rebranded and significantly enhanced as Community Cinema). During the years that Robert was a part of the ITVS enterprise, he brought a level…
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FUTURESTATES Returns!
April 1, 2013The fourth season of FUTURESTATES brings seven visions of the future from seven cutting-edge indie filmmakers And we’re back! Public media’s #1 online series of independently-produced, socially conscious, science fiction short films returns for another season of forward thinking, genre-bending, no-holds-barred explorations into the future of…