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Find Your Audience: Building Long-Term Engagement with Passionate Viewers

August 7, 2012, 4:45 pm

ITVS’s Rebecca Huval discusses research, news, and trends that come out of ITVS’s IndiesLab. Documentary filmmakers have complex motivations for producing films. Unlike the makers of, say, The Twilight...

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Women and Girls Lead Presents a Social Screening of Taking Root

March 13, 2012, 3:00 am

Join us for an online social screening of Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai this Wednesday, March 14th at 1PM PT/4PM ET. The event, which takes place exclusively online, will feature special...

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Women and Girls Lead Presents Three Social Screenings as Part of Online Film...

March 9, 2012, 2:00 am

The Women and Girls Lead Online Film Festival will host three social screenings (Taking Root, Troop 1500, and Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes) during the month of March. In celebration of...

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Filmmaker Lisa Merton Reflects on the Legacy of Wangari Maathai

January 3, 2012, 2:10 am

Lisa Merton, producer of Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai, attended the Nobel laureate and environmental activist’s funeral in Kenya in October. Merton offered BTB this report on Maathai’s...

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Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai Memorialized in San Francisco

November 22, 2011, 2:00 am

Al Gore was just one of several distinguished speakers who came to Wangari Maathai’s memorial service at the Delancey Street Theater in San Francisco last week. The environmentalist passed away in...

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Nobel Peace Prize Winners are Subjects of Prominent PBS Broadcasts

October 7, 2011, 10:32 am

Three women — Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, her compatriot Leymah Gbowee, and pro-democracy campaigner Tawakul Karman of Yemen — have been named co-recipients of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize...

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Taking Root with Lisa Merton on Earth Day

April 22, 2011, 5:00 am

Lisa Merton’s Taking Root was broadcast on Independent Lens in April 2009 and brought together more than 4,000 people to Community Cinema events in 50 cities across the country. As we ring in Earth Day...

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