December 10, 2012
The Waiting Room Makes Washington Post 2012 Top-10 Film List!
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Independent Lens films continue to pile up incredible accolades and awards this month. The latest: The Washington Post's Ann Hornaday just came out with her list of the top 10…...
December 07, 2012
How Will You Decide Your Person of the Year?
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[caption id="attachment_2557" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Ai Weiwei is in the running for Time's Person of the Year, alongside contenders like the Mars Rover, various politicians, Jon Stewart, and Pussy Riot.[/caption] Time…...
December 07, 2012
It’s Been a Great Week for Independent Lens!
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What a week for Independent Lens! First the Sundance Film Festival announced the lineup for 2013. Then Time magazine showed The Invisible War some major love in its “Top Movies of 2012." It's the only documentary…...
December 04, 2012
7 Books That Inspired Popular Documentaries
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Not many national commemorative months get our attention here at Independent Lens. National Raisin Bread Month ended a few days ago, and no one here so much as gave a…...
December 04, 2012
POV Announces the 25 Greatest Documentaries of All Time
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[caption id="attachment_2509" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Which documentary won the most votes?[/caption] Your votes are in, the ballots have been counted, and sister series POV has announced the 25 Greatest Documentaries of…...
November 22, 2012
Celebrate Native American Heritage Month with 8 Documentaries
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November is Native American Heritage Month, but that wasn’t always the case. At one point, it was a single day to honor Native American history, and before that, there was…...
November 21, 2012
The Island President to Receive IDA Pare Lorentz Award
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This year, the esteemed Pare Lorentz Award will go to The Island President, directed by John Shenk. Each year, the International Documentary Association gives this award to a film that demonstrates…...
November 13, 2012
Ten Documentaries about Poverty and Power
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The current economy has given us an occasion to wonder how attainable the American dream is. If you start with nothing, can you actually pull yourself up by the bootstraps,…...
November 10, 2012
Election Season Extended (for Best Documentaries of All Time)
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What does it mean to be the greatest? This week our sister series, POV, launched an ambitious survey which will culminate in a master list of the greatest documentaries of…...
November 09, 2012
Academy Award-Winner Alex Gibney’s Tale of Two Cities in One
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We sat down with Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney, director of Park Avenue: Money, Power & the American Dream, to talk about what motivated him to make this film. The documentary is…...
November 06, 2012
After Love Free or Die, Our Top Ten List of Religious Documentaries
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As the first openly gay bishop, Gene Robinson is no stranger to controversy. He wore a bullet-proof vest to his consecration in 2003. Robinson stars in Love Free or Die…...
November 01, 2012
The Making of Solar Mamas
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We sat down with Mette Heide, producer of Solar Mamas, to talk about why she and her filmmaking team chose this story, and what inspired them along the way. The…...