About Global Voices
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Global Voices, presented by the Independent Television Service (ITVS), is the first original series to launch on PBS WORLD. Its fourth season is marked by an updated, dynamic change with the re-branding of PBS WORLD to simply, WORLD. Global Voices continues to bring North American audiences internationally themed documentaries by independent filmmakers from the U.S. and abroad.
Global Voices features the U.S. premieres of documentaries funded by series presenter ITVS International, as well as encore broadcasts of ITVS programs from the acclaimed PBS series Independent Lens and P.O.V.
Global Voices is produced by ITVS with support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
The WORLD multicast channel is undergoing dynamic changes to re-invigorate, re-imagine and create a quality transmedia platform for broader and more diverse audiences. Integrating the broadcast channel with Web platforms in order to distribute content in multiple ways, the best of public television's popular documentary, news and nonfiction programming as well as exciting new content will appeal to traditional viewers and attract the new American demographic. WORLD’s programming will expand to include content from rising filmmakers, multimedia creators, news sources, and individuals for user generated content. Immediacy, innovation, interaction, and inclusion are the beacons for this new WORLD public media service. WORLD is produced and distributed by WGBH Boston, WNET.ORG, and American Public Television (APT) in association with the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and the National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA).
