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Accolades
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Oliver Stone and Lupe Ontiveros
at ITVS’s Los Angeles screening of THE DEVIL’S MINER |
Independent Lens recently launched the National Community Engagement Campaign for its new season with a special screening of Kief Davidson and Richard Lankani’s THE DEVIL’S MINER, which also received the FIPRESCI International Federation of Film Critics award for Best First Documentary. The screening, co-presented by Latino Public Broadcasting in conjunction with the Amnesty International Film Festival and introduced by director Oliver Stone and hosted by actress Lupe Ontiveros, took place at the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles and included a panel discussion with the filmmakers and outreach partners Amnesty International and CARE.
Shelby Knox
with the boys from
BOYS OF BARAKA at the South By
Southwest film festival
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ITVS made a big splash at this year’s South by Southwest (SXSW) festivals. At the film festival, Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady’s BOYS OF BARAKA received a Special Jury Award for Documentary Feature and was a runner-up for the Documentary Feature Audience Award. Marion Lipschutz and Rose Rosenblatt’s THE EDUCATION OF SHELBY KNOX won an Audience Award in the Lone Star States category, and Ellen Spiro and Karen Bernstein’s TROOP 1500 was the runner-up. At SXSW’s interactive festival, BEYOND THE FIRE: TEEN EXPERIENCES OF WAR, an Electric Shadows project presented by ITVS Interactive, won the 2005 SXSW Web Award for Best Educational Resource.
Susan Stern’s film THE SELF-MADE MAN received the Center for Documentary Studies Filmmaker Award at the Full Frame Documentary Festival, where Lipschutz and Rosenblatt also won the Audience Award and the Women in Leadership Award for THE EDUCATION OF SHELBY KNOX.
Gary Griffin’s cinematography work on THE EDUCATION OF SHELBY KNOX garnered the film an American Excellence in Cinematography Award in the documentary competition at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival.
Dr. Steven Channing and Rebecca Cerese’s film FEBRUARY ONE was nominated for a Southeast Regional Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Television Specialized Programming Excellence, Documentary Program.
Marshall Curry’s film STREET FIGHT won the Best International Documentary and Audience Awards at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.
Hank Rogerson and Jilann Spitzmiller, whose film SHAKESPEARE BEHIND BARS garnered the Special Jury Prize for Documentary Feature at the Independent Film Festival of Boston.
Congrats to Interactive Knowledge, the American Visionary Art Museum and ITVS Interactive: The latest Electric Shadows Web-exclusive project, OFF THE MAP, received Cool Site of the Day and USA Today Hot Site nods and was named a Macromedia Site of the Day, in addition to being Communication Arts’ Site of the Week.
Rodney Evans’s drama BROTHER TO BROTHER received a Glitter Award for Best Indie Film at the 2005 International Gay Film Awards as well as nominations for four 2005 IFP Independent Spirit Awards: Best First Feature, Best First Screenplay, Best Debut Performance (Anthony Mackie) and Best Supporting Actor (Roger Robinson).
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THE REAL DIRT ON FARMER JOHN
filmmaker Teri Lang receiving an award with
Farmer John at the Slamdance Film Festival |
Taggart Siegel and Teri Lang’s THE REAL DIRT ON FARMER JOHN recently received two accolades at the 2005 Nashville Film Festival, the Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary Feature and the Al Gore Reel Current Award. Gore selects the winning film and presents the award. The film also won the Audience Sparky Award for Best Documentary Feature at the Slamdance Film Festival and the Bay Area Best Documentary Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival, and was featured at the Green Screen Environmental Film Festival with an introduction by Gore.
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