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The ITVS Indie Roundup
October 26, 2012A curated list of indie news and recommendations from ITVS’s Rebecca Huval. Get into the Halloween mood with The Awl’s list of classic Hollywood monsters, including Mrs. Danvers from Rebecca, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Kim Novak’s eyebrows. The U.S. Copyright Office just granted documentary filmmakers a special pass. In an exemption to the…
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Street Ballad: A Jakarta Story, Sunday on Global Voices
October 19, 2012On Sunday, Global Voices brings you Street Ballad: A Jakarta Story by first time filmmaker Daniel Ziv, who provided BTB with this inside look on the motivation behind his documentary. The film airs Sunday, October 21 on the WORLD Channel.Street Ballad: A Jakarta Story is my first film. I was drawn to the unusual tale behind it not because of any ambition to…
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The ITVS Indie Roundup
October 19, 2012A curated list of indie news and recommendations from ITVS’s Rebecca Huval. The director of concert documentary Andrew Bird: Fever Year has found an even more intimate subject to cover for her next nonfiction film. Xan Aranda will explore the Mormon film industry and her own disillusionment from the faith. She dished out the details to Chicago WBEZ’s The…
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The ITVS Indie Roundup
October 12, 2012A curated list of indie news and recommendations from ITVS’s Rebecca Huval. And you thought the logistics of your documentary were complicated. To produce The Iran Job, Till Schauder had to stuff the footage of his documentary in his underwear while traveling to duck the U.S. embargo against Iran. The movie, about American basketballers playing in Iran,…
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Independent Lens Submission Deadline
October 10, 2012Independent Lens is currently seeking submissions of completed or near completed programs for broadcast during the October 2013 - June 2014 season.Independent Lens is a film festival in your living room. Since 2003, Independent Lens has presented more than 300 films to public television audiences. The Emmy and Peabody Award-winning series is…