ITVS, shorts and great new documentary

ITVS stands for "Independent Television Service" and it is funded by PBS and based in San Francisco. It funds all kinds of really interested and innovative television programming. You can find it at http://www.itvs.org/

Check out its festival of shorts to see a Barbie Doll makeover! You can see it online at the web site.


Also just released:
HIP-HOP: Beyond Beats and Rhymes takes an in-depth look at manhood in rap music and hip-hop culture—where creative genius, poetic beauty and mad beats collide with misogyny, violence and homophobia.



It is now available on DVD. Its web site is http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/hiphop/. You can purchase it at the Media Education Foundation

-sam smiley