Because the non-fiction neighborhood continues to reel from the closing of distinguished producer financier Participant and a normal slowdown within the non-fiction area, ITVS is opening the purposes for its annual documentary funding initiative, Open Name, with expansions to its deliberate funding.
ITVS has run Open Name because the ’90s, giving out greater than $100 million in funding for 600 doc initiatives. Current initiatives embody Andres Jay Molina and Alexis Neophytides’ Fireplace By Dry Grass and Bing Liu’s Academy Award-nominated Minding the Hole.
This 12 months, ITVS has plans to extend its allotted funding (Open Name supplies as much as $400,000 of co-production funding) and has expanded eligibility necessities to incorporate short-form content material, in extra to feature-length initiatives.
“The daring nonfiction tales that have interaction at the moment’s streaming audiences know no bounds,“ stated ITVS’ Jim Sommers. “We’re wanting to develop entry to ITVS Open Name via new pointers and appeal to artists with numerous storytelling visions.”
ITVS co-productions are distributed on PBS as a part of the community’s nonfiction sequence together with American Masters, Frontline and Impartial Lens.
“The place, when, and the way we uncover and watch nonfiction programming is at all times altering. Impartial Lens is dedicated to evolving right into a streaming-first sequence on public media platforms,” stated Lois Vossen, Impartial Lens government producer. “We invite you to carry your expertise and creativity to assist reimagine our sequence, accessible on-line to each American.”