(San Francisco) – 2011 marks the 20th anniversary of the Independent Television Service (Itvs), one of the largest sources of funding for independent filmmakers. In recognition of this milestone, Itvs is launching the Itvs Indies Showcase, a free online film festival running from July 25 to September 23, 2011 in honor of the extraordinary contributions of independent filmmakers to public television.
The 20 unforgettable documentaries in the Itvs Indies Showcase represent glimpses of the collection of more than 1,000 productions Itvs has supported as the country’s leading provider of independent films for public broadcasting. Each full-length program will stream for free for three days on itvs.org/indies-showcase where viewers will also find a timeline of Itvs’s history, film trailers, clips, interviews, an audience award contest, and more.
Through the tenacity of filmmakers and their supporters seeking to foster plurality and diversity in public television, Itvs was established by an unprecedented mandate of Congress to...
The 20 unforgettable documentaries in the Itvs Indies Showcase represent glimpses of the collection of more than 1,000 productions Itvs has supported as the country’s leading provider of independent films for public broadcasting. Each full-length program will stream for free for three days on itvs.org/indies-showcase where viewers will also find a timeline of Itvs’s history, film trailers, clips, interviews, an audience award contest, and more.
Through the tenacity of filmmakers and their supporters seeking to foster plurality and diversity in public television, Itvs was established by an unprecedented mandate of Congress to...
- 8/2/2011
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
If there's one thing the documentary world could do without, it's another liberal urbanite throwing on flannels, adopting a folksy tone, and embarking on a gimmicky first-person stunt as a way to illuminate an important issue. King Corn offers two of them: Curt Ellis and Ian Cheney, Boston-based college buddies who return to their ancestral home of Greene, Iowa, and spend a year planting and harvesting an acre of corn. Their affable little project represents the spoonful of sugar that makes the corn-industry-factoid medicine go down, as Ellis and Cheney learn about subsidies and surpluses, and the insidious nutritional aspects of an industry that's growing in proportion to America's bellies. And yet King Corn, produced and directed by Aaron Woolf, isn't as officious as it sounds, because Ellis and Cheney are low-key tour guides with a minimum of snark, and the one-acre-farm gimmick doesn't carry too heavy a load. ...
- 5/14/2008
- by Scott Tobias
- avclub.com
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