The LPB funded program SPEAKING IN TONGUES is screening in Bridgewater, MA, and Berkeley, CA. Don’t miss this award winning documentary about bilingual education in America! SPEAKING IN TONGUES Producers: Marcia Jarmel/Ken Schneider Documentary/60 Minutes In a time where 31 states have…

POV – DIVERSE VOICES PROJECT – Extended Deadline: February 18, 2011 Diverse Voices Project is supported by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private non-profit corporation funded by the American People. POV’s Diverse Voices Project will provide co-production funding, mentorship, and…

The LPB funded GRANITO is an official selection of the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in Missoula, Montana and the Documentary Edge Festival in New Zealand. The Big Sky Documentary Film Festival is a unique setting for filmmakers to premiere new work and for…

The Tribeca Film Institute is currently welcoming feedback and open collaboration on their submission guidelines for their New Media funding initiative. The submissions will open on April 2, 2011. About TFI New Media Fund – The TFI New Media Fund provides funding…

The MARIACHI HIGH trailer was posted on the Working Films Channel on YouTube. Here’s the link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8Eav9QvOnc Produced and directed by Ilana Trachtman, MARIACHI HIGH captures a year in the life of competitive high school mariachi musicians in the top-ranked ensemble Mariachi Halcon in…

Producers Marcia Jarmel and Ken Schneider continue to use the LPB funded documentary SPEAKING IN TONGUES to engage audiences in hopes of changing policy and attitudes towards multilingual education. The film is screening all across the country and there are multiple tools…

The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, one of the nation’s premier Latino arts institutions, presents the 33rd Annual CineFestival en San Antonio. The oldest running international festival in North America featuring Chicano/ Latino/ Indigenous film subjects at the historic Guadalupe Theater.…

THE ECONOMIST FILM PROJECT – Rolling Deadline from January 10, 2011 to January 2012 The Economist Film Project is an initiative by The Economist, in partnership with PBS NewsHour, to showcase the work of independent documentary filmmakers from around the world. Selected…

LPB would like to congratulate producer Paco de Onis and director Pamela Yates for the selection of GRANITO in the Documentary Premieres section of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. With the expanding impact and popularity of documentaries in our world today, Documentary Premieres is a new…