April 18, 2018
Organic Farmer, Writer Mas Masumoto Shares Sense of Place with Wendell Berry
Independent Lens in Beyond the Films
by Mas Masumoto [pullquote]"The two of us have something often overlooked in today's fast-paced world: history on the land and a sense of place."[/pullquote]I dream of Wendell Berry visiting my…...
April 11, 2018
Pollution (and Other Environmental) Public Service Announcements: A Look Back
Jennie Z. Rose in Beyond the Films
In conjunction with the Independent Lens film What Lies Upstream, which is an exposé about what led to a major source of water becoming poisoned after a disastrous chemical spill…...
April 10, 2018
Filmmaker Cullen Hoback Digs Into Political Cover-Ups and Chemical Spills in Americans Water
Craig Phillips in Interviews
Filmmaker Cullen Hoback's previous film Terms and Conditions May Apply (2013), a humorous but chilling documentary about the erosion of online privacy and what info governments and corporations are legally…...
April 04, 2018
Watch The Seven-Part Series “Sentencing Children”:
Independent Lens in Watch Video
Watch our seven-part, Webby Award-nominated series on juvenile sentencing laws, "Sentencing Children." "Sentencing Children" was produced by Dan Birman and Independent Lens. This series is part of Independent Lens‘s commitment to…...
April 04, 2018
Shoes Wisely: Stacey Tenenbaum Shines a Light on an Age-Old Profession
Craig Phillips in Interviews
Award-winning filmmaker Stacey Tenenbaum co-created a critically acclaimed series in Canada, The Beat, which followed a team of beat police officers patrolling the streets of Downtown Vancouver. Exchanging the police beat…...
April 02, 2018
The Art of the Sneaker
Craig Phillips in Beyond the Films
One of the many quiet revelations for me in the documentary The Art of the Shine is that despite being in what seems like a casual and disposable culture, many…...
March 30, 2018
Censored Iranian Artists, Poets and Musicians Threatened with Exile
Independent Lens in Beyond the Films
[Note: Please enjoy this guest essay on Iranian artists and censorships, in conjunction with the broadcast premiere of When God Sleeps, by artist and game creator Kurosh ValaNejad. See more…...
March 28, 2018
Filmmaker Till Schauder Had Many Sleepless Nights Telling Shahin Najafi’s Story
Craig Phillips in Interviews
The German-born, New York-based filmmaker Till Schauder's previous film The Iran Job was about an American basketball player who went with great trepidation to play professionally in Iran, a winning…...
March 27, 2018
Dolores – Young Dolores Huerta Takes on Sacramento – Clip
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March 21, 2018
Screenwriter Josefina López on how Dolores Huerta is the Mother of Inspiration
Independent Lens in Beyond the Films
by Josefina López The award-winning screenwriter (Real Women Have Curves), playwright, and activist López writes her own personal perspective on her connection to and parallels with Dolores Huerta's story. I…...
March 13, 2018
Peter Bratt Feels the Calling to Tell Dolores Huerta’s Story
Craig Phillips in Interviews
Filmmaker Peter Bratt's first feature Follow Me Home, a San Francisco International Film Festival Audience Award winner, was produced with his brother Benjamin Bratt, which they followed with the heartfelt indie film La…...
March 08, 2018
From Jane to Dolores, Agnès to Elsa, Documentaries on Unheralded Women Who Made History
Sharon Knolle in Independent Film
In celebration of Women's History Month (every March), we focus on great recent documentaries about great women, all who forged their own path in times and places where that wasn't expected…...