DAILY NEWS: New ITVS Chief; IFP/West Lab; Godard and Manhattanby Eugene Hernandez and Brian Brooks/indieWIRE>> Fifer to Leave BAVC to Lead ITVS(indieWIRE/05.24.01) -- ITVS has completed its search for a new Executive Director, naming Sally Jo Fifer as the new head of the public televisionproduction organization. Fifer is well known in the San Francisco filmcommunity as the head of the Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC), anorganization that she has lead since 1992. She will join ITVS in August,succeeding James T. Yee who passed away in March."Building on ITVS's 10 years of extraordinary leadership bringing new voicesto public television, I am tr...
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