July 2016
ITVS funds, presents and promotes documentaries, dramas and web content from independent producers to bring stories of underrepresented communities to public television series such as Independent Lens, POV, American Masters, Frontline, American Experience, America ReFramed, Global Voices, among others.
Of the films ITVS supported last year, 78 percent were made by filmmakers of color and half were by women. Its cinematic digital platform OVEE allows viewers to watch streaming PBS video and chat with each other, panelists and filmmakers. And its national engagement network Indies Lens Pop-Up screens films in 75 cities.
Follow the journey of legendary teacher Robert Cazimero and the only all-male hula school in Hawaiʻi as they prepare to compete at the world’s largest hula festival.
Imagine a world where a little boy can grow up to be the woman of his dreams, and a young girl can rise to become a leader among men.
A feature length documentary exploring the role football plays within the U.S. Polynesian community
A young multiracial Kanaka Maoli woman sets out to discover the meaning of her lengthy, 63-letter Hawaiian name from her estranged schizophrenic mother.
Hawaiian values told through the Kamaka family's business of making ʻukuleles.
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