Five New Projects to Receive Funding from ITVS

SAN FRANCISCO, December
17: The Independent Television Service (ITVS) has selected five projects from
its recently completed ITVS International Call 2008 for funding, with two more
expected to be announced shortly.

The films set to receive
production funding were selected from an application process, which included
385 submissions from 74 countries. Since 2005, some 100 international programs
have been supported through ITVS International's Global Perspectives Project
and its International Media Development Fund.

The 2008 International
Call projects selected for funding and U.S. television broadcast include The
Caviar Connection by Dragan
Nikolic and Jovana Nikolic (Serbia), Jalanan by Daniel Ziv and Leonard Retel Helmrich
(Indonesia), The Last Tightrope Dancer in Armenia by Vardan Hovhannisyan and Inna Sahakyan
(Armenia), Last Train Home by
Lixin Fan and Mila Aung-Thwin (China) and On the Borders of Desperation by Nima Sarvestani (Kurdistan—Iran, Iraq).

The deadline for
submission for projects to be considered in the next ITVS International Call is
February 6, 2009.

—By Kristin
Brzoznowski