February 27, 2018
Rat Film – “Rats Put Food on My Table” – Clip
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February 21, 2018
Filmmaker Theo Anthony’s Ratty Exploration of Urban Segregation
Craig Phillips in Interviews
[pullquote]"It’s cool to watch younger audiences watch the film, because they just get the filmic language right away. It’s a film that feels more like an Instagram story than a…...
February 20, 2018
Tell Them We Are Rising – Separate But Unequal
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February 16, 2018
10 Questions with “Rat Film” Composer Dan Deacon: On Baltimore, Rats, Player Pianos and Theremins
Craig Phillips in Beyond the Films
Baltimore-based composer/musician Dan Deacon did the music for Theo Anthony's Rat Film. The film, which uses the urban rat as a way to explore a deeper story of urbanization and…...
February 15, 2018
HBCU Grads Share Their Stories of Campus Life
Craig Phillips in Beyond the Films
Graduates of Historic Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) are proud alums, and in connection with the Independent Lens film Tell Them We Are Rising, which tells the 170 years—and rising—history of…...
February 13, 2018
Beyond Romance: Searching for the Meaning of Love on Screen
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Although there are as many ways to love as there are people to do the loving, we are trained from an early age to value the pair-bond above all else.…...
January 30, 2018
For “Winnie”: Anti-Apartheid Songs of Protest
Independent Lens in Beyond the Films
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1280"] Miriam Makeba and Dizzy Gillespie, 1991[/caption] By Sarah Bardeen, guest contributor Modern South Africa was forged in apartheid. The struggle defined life for generations of South…...
January 29, 2018
“Winnie” Filmmaker Gives a New Perspective on Anti-Apartheid Activist Winnie Mandela
Craig Phillips in Interviews
Filmmaker Pascale Lamche took on the enormous but important challenge of documenting Winnie Mandela's story, a narrative, as she discovered, that was slightly skewed in the mind of many across…...
January 26, 2018
Filmmakers Marco Williams and Stanley Nelson Tell an Essential Chapter of American History in Story of HBCUs
Craig Phillips in Interviews
Tell Them We Are Rising, which premieres on Independent Lens on PBS Monday, February 19 at 9 pm [check local listings], covers the rich history of America’s Historically Black Colleges and…...
January 24, 2018
How a Chinese Filmmaker Ended up in Florida with a Drifter from Utah
Craig Phillips in Interviews
Nanfu Wang was a student at NYU when she went exploring America, which found her in Florida staying at a hostel. There she encountered a young drifter named Dylan, whom…...
January 19, 2018
Independent Lens Announces Spring 2018 Slate of Award-Winning Films
Independent Lens in Announcements
Independent Lens, which recently won the 2017 IDA Documentary Award for Best Curated Series from the International Documentary Association, now officially announces our March-May 2018 lineup on PBS. Dolores, Peter…...
January 17, 2018
Balancing Along the Thin Blue Line, Filmmaker Captures Police Force at an Explosive Time
Craig Phillips in Interviews
A follow-up to his acclaimed, Independent Spirit Truer than Fiction Award-winning film The Waiting Room (Independent Lens, 2013), Pete Nicks' The Force is part of a trilogy of films he's making which…...