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The Puppets are Coming to Pledge: March 3 from 7-10 pm
In what organizers are fairly certain is unprecedented, puppets are going to take over the Nashville Public Television pledge set on Sunday, March 3 from 7-10 p.m., during the broadcasts of “An Evening with Jerry Lewis: Live from Las Vegas” and “Brit Floyd.” The puppets, from Nashville Public Library’s Wishing Chair Productions and stars of [...]
2011-12 Season of Community Cinema Nashville Announced
From our friends at Community Cinema: Season Opens Saturday, September 17 with Afghanistan-set “Peace Unveiled.” ITVS, together with partner station Nashville Public Television (NPT) and series partners Nashville Public Library, Nashville Film Festival (NaFF) and Hands On Nashville, is proud to announce the 2011-12 season of ITVS Community Cinema Nashville. Now in its four year, [...]
Pushing the Elephant: The Panel Discussion
Following an NPT co-presented screening of ITVS Community Cinema screening at the Nashville Public Library of the documentary “Pushing the Elephant, panelists Bethany Haley and Quincee Gideon of eXile International and Marie-Aimee Abizera, African Leadership Refugee Ministry discussed the issues raised in the film. Community Cinema coordinator Allison Inman moderated. Thanks to the Nashville Public [...]
A Christian, a Jew and a Muslim Walk into a Documentary
Watch the full episode. See more Independent Lens. I grew up in an Italian-American Roman Catholic family. Like most good Catholic boys, I at one point in my youth pondered whether I should enter the priesthood. And like most good Catholic families, it would have been an honor for my family if I did. I [...]
Announcing the 2010/11 ITVS Community Cinema Series at Nashville Public Library
We’re proud to announce the 2010/11 season of ITVS Community Cinema in Nashville. Now in its third year in Nashville, Community Cinema returns with nine compelling documentaries from this year’s lineup on Independent Lens, followed by engaging panel discussions and Q&A sessions. The free screening series begins in Nashville on October 30 with Reel Injun: [...]
Women`s Empowerment Film Fest Comes to Nashville August 21
Free daylong series Aug. 21 features four documentaries with strong female characters – A Girl’s Life, Off and Running, Troop 1500, and Lakshmi and Me – followed by discussions. As NPT gets ready to partner with ITVS and the Nashville Public Library this October to launch our third season of ITVS Community Cinema in Nashville, [...]
ITVS Community Cinema in Nashville 2009-10 Wrap-Up
The fantastic 2009-10 Season of ITVS Community Cinema in Nashville has officially wrapped. We were holding on just a little while longer in hopes of finally screening The Horse Boy after two postponements, first due to severe weather, and second due to the Flood. But as you read on, you’ll see that all hope is [...]
Free Screening of `A Village Called Versailles` Sat May 15
As Jack Silverman points out in this week’s Nashville Scene, “the universe works in mysterious ways,” referring to the fact that this weekend’s ITVS Community Cinema screening of A Village Called Versailles — presented by ITVS, NPT, Hands on Nashville and the Nashville Film Festival — was scheduled in September of 2009, many months before [...]
Treating Someone Like Dirt Should be a Compliment: DIRT! The Movie
[youtube="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALK6zg550uc"] I usually joke that when I was growing up, while all my friends were playing in the dirt, I was at the library, where my mother would take me to check out books, watch movies and take part in crafts classes. This isn’t entirely true. I did occasionally play in the dirt like everyone [...]
Free Screening of Young@Heart Saturday Dec 12 at Downtown Library
[youtube="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLAPl4UT0Vc"] [youtube="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gosIuO1HqEg"] I handle PR for both Nashville Public Television and Nashville Film Festival, and occasionally, there are wonderful times when the line between the two blurs, and I can talk about both in the same breath. Some of the finest documentaries that play the Festival often wind up airing on NPT, whether because of [...]
