April 25, 2012
Facing the Storm: A Buffalo (News) Roundup!
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To celebrate Earth Day, we ask, "Where do the buffalo roam?" Facing the Storm: Story of the American Bison (airing April 26, check local listings) follows the American West’s relationship with…...
April 24, 2012
Diversity in TV: Lives Worth Living Screening, Panel at the Home of Emmys
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Earlier this season we aired the documentary Lives Worth Living about one of the most significant and least recognized civil rights movements in American history: the struggle for access and…...
April 19, 2012
Updates from the Tucson Unified School District
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Since the cameras stopped rolling on the documentary Precious Knowledge (premiering May 17 on Independent Lens), the Tucson Unified School District has been all over the news. Precious Knowledge follows the…...
April 18, 2012
The Resurrection of the Electric Car Film Franchise
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Chris Paine's 2006 film Who Killed the Electric Car was, he thought, an elegy for an idea that wasn't so much ahead of its time, but rather ahead of Detroit's…...
April 14, 2012
What Returning Soldiers Have in Common With AIDS in the 1980s
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Yes it sounds like an outrageous nonsequitur, but bear with it. MSNBC host Rachel Maddow's new book Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power includes a passage in the epilogue…...
April 13, 2012
Meet Septentrional — Video Interview with the Band
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We caught up with filmmaker Whitney Dow and some members of Septentrional while they were in New York this week. The band is on a mini-tour in New York, playing…...
April 12, 2012
A Filmmaker on a Mission to Make an Uplifting Film About Haiti
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Director Whitney Dow (Two Towns of Jasper) set out to make a film about Haiti that was not all about poverty, tragedy, or corruption, which is generally how Haiti is…...
April 07, 2012
Playlist: Listen to a Sampling of Popular Haitian Music
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"Septentrional is the Buena Vista Social Club of Haiti." We keep hearing this comparison as we prepare for the premiere of When the Drum is Beating, premiering April 12, 2012…...
April 06, 2012
The Making of Being Elmo, with Director Constance Marks
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Being Elmo director Constance Marks began her filmmaking career over 30 years ago as an assistant editor for the renowned cinema verite pioneers David and Albert Maysles. For Being Elmo,…...
April 06, 2012
Kevin Clash and Elmo Video Hits Pt. 2
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Tonight at 9pm, tune in for Being Elmo on your local PBS station! Until then, you might need a fix, so we're here for you. Of course, Elmo is a…...
April 05, 2012
Bhutto Wins a Peabody Award; Public TV Scores Multiple Awards
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Our heartiest congratulations go out to Mark Seigel and Duane Baughman on winning an esteemed Peabody Award for last season's Independent Lens documentary Bhutto. SO richly deserved! Other worthy winners…...
March 31, 2012
The Inner Pulse of Alzheimer’s
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This week's premiere of Scott Kirschenbaum's You're Looking at Me Like I Live Here and I Don't has prompted an outpouring of stories from our viewers about the devastating disease.…...