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Beyond The Box is the Independent Television Service's (ITVS’) semi-annual magazine containing feature articles, funding guidelines and applications, upcoming broadcasts and other useful information for independent filmmakers, public television stations and audiences.

Current Features

Deadly Oasis
Dartmouth College, Rauner Special Collections

* Does Public Media Matter? The Importance of Public Television in the Media-opoly Age
by Geneva Collins

In an age when cable and satellite subscribers can routinely surf more than 100 channels and anyone with a fast Internet connection can download more online content in a day than he or she could view in a lifetime, one might argue that Americans have all the diversity we need in our visual media.

There may be hundreds of channels, but that’s not real diversity…. Today, when only five corporations account for more than half of all media revenues, public media has become imperative.
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* Independent Lens Kicks Off Our New Season

“The greatest showcase of independent film on TV today.”
The Kansas City Star

The first complete primetime season of the Independent Lens series came to a close in June. Hosted by Don Cheadle, the series included 29 weeks of programming and 37 films for a national audience. Independent Lens has caught on with audiences as well as critics, and Tuesday night at 10 o’clock is becoming a television tradition.

The upcoming 2004-2005 season, debuting this fall, features our most impressive lineup to date.
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* INPUT and ITVS
Public Television Across the Globe

Since 1978, the annual International Public Television (INPUT) conference has brought together the world’s leading professionals dedicated to television in the public interest. Part creative exchange and part strategic summit, INPUT sits at the heart of an international network, featuring a week of screenings, panels and special events in a different city each May. More than a thousand delegates from more than 50 countries attend, including independent filmmakers, executive producers, programmers, commissioning editors and many others. Read more
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* In Memoriam
Larry Hall and Patrick Wickham

ITVS is sad to report the loss of two important figures at ITVS: Larry Hall, who helped lobby Congress and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for the creation of a public television service for independent producers, and Patrick Wickham, an extraordinary colleague who had been on staff almost since the organization’s inception.
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IN EVERY ISSUE

* Accolades
Persistence of Vision, George Foster Peabody and Sundance Awards, an Oscar nomination, Capitol Hill screening, shout outs and more…
Pat Mitchell

* From the President
“…What the café and salon were to the 18th century, what the newspaper and concert hall were to the 19th, the broadcast media have been to our time. They are the arenas of public debate, the shapers of public opinion.”
Sally Jo Fifer

* Readers and Panelists
ITVS extends our thanks and appreciation to the readers and panelists who evaluated proposals during the past year.



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