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JustFilms funding documentary filmmakers and organizations

A Potential Funding Source for Southern Filmmakers

People contact ETV and my office everyday with great ideas for documentaries. The biggest challenge is usually funding, especially when the economy is in a recession. Even experienced filmmakers pitching a compelling story with strong characters have a difficult time finding support. One organization is focusing solely on documentary films. The Ford Foundation, known for funding incredible media projects, is dedicating $10 million dollars over five years to support film, video and digital works…

Indie Grits ETV Southern Lens Award Winner

Junk Palace by Lyon Hill

The fifth annual Indie Grits Film Festival broke audience records and for the first time combined food, music, crafts with unique film festival programming. As much as Ashlon Langley and I wanted to see and experience everything, it was impossible with two rivaling screens. The good news for those in South Carolina who missed it, we feel confident that more than a few Indie Grits films will make it on ETV's Southern Lens. The…

Indie Grits Film Fest on April 13-16, 2011

Schedule is Posted!

The schedule for the Indie Grits Film Festival in Columbia, SC is now posted. As an offical sponsor of the festival, ETV will be giving a Southern Lens Independent Vision Award. Considering all of the films are made by filmmakers from the Southeast, choosing a winner is a challenge especially with so many emerging filmmakers represented in the line-up. We'll be airing last year's winner, Rocaterrania…

One of the Coolest Film Festivals is in Columbia, SC

Indie Grits Makes the Top 25

This just in from Larry Hembree at the Nickelodeon Theater - Indie Grits Film Festival in Columbia, South Carolina is ranked as one of the 25 Coolest Film Festivals by MovieMaker Magazine. The Asheville International Film Festival also made the list. So what do these two cool film festivals and Southern Lens have in common? Each year, SCETV gives a Southern Lens Award to the best "southern" films…

International Public Television Screening Conference

U.S. INPUT is managed by SCETV.

American producers of public media send entries to SCETV every November to be considered for the INPUT conference held the following May. Next year, INPUT 2011 will be in Seoul, Korea.

INPUT is a volunteer organization that brings international public media producers together to debate and discuss some of the most innovative public media programming in the world. SCETV has been managing the U.S. INPUT Secretariat since 1984 when the station hosted INPUT…

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