September 07, 2011
Announcing our 10th Season of Remarkable Independents!
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It's that time again! Time for the premiere of a new and glorious season of Independent Lens, with an eclectic and inspiring schedule full of independent documentaries guaranteed to surprise,…...
August 22, 2011
Meet Christina Pettit, Our 100,000th Facebook Fan!
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On Sunday, August 14 at about 1:30pm EDT, the Independent Lens Facebook page passed a pretty notable milestone. At about that time, 30-year-old Christina Pettit of New York City clicked…...
August 11, 2011
IL Classic China Blue to Stream Free; Chat on Globalization with PBS NewsHour
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Next up on the summer ITVS Indies Showcase is an Independent Lens classic, China Blue. Micha Peled's stunning undercover film follows Jasmine, one of many teenagers working at a blue…...
August 11, 2011
A Trip Down Memory Lane with the PBS Logo
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Almost nothing makes me so nostalgic as the bumpers and "idents" (network identification spots) of the media of my childhood. That got me thinking about the PBS logo through the…...
July 23, 2011
ITVS Indies Showcase Celebrates 20 Years of Independents
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Our parent organization, the Independent Television Service (ITVS), is celebrating its 20th anniversary! To honor the amazing filmmakers who have so inspired us in the past two decades, and to…...
July 13, 2011
Feed Your Synapses with Independent Lens to Go
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Are you desperately in need of brain food this summer, when the primetime lineup leans toward Who Wants to be a National Laughingstock? and Are You Smarter Than a Single-Celled…...
July 01, 2011
The 2011 Independent Lens Audience Award Winner is … Two Spirits!
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At film festivals, the award that often matters most to filmmakers and their subjects alike is the Audience Award. They know they've struck a chord when the audience applauds their…...
June 20, 2011
(A Highly Subjective) Top 10 LGBT Documentaries for Pride Month
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It's LGBT Pride Month, and with celebrations cropping up across the country, we thought we'd have a look at documentaries dealing with LGBT issues are. Here's my personal Top 10…...
June 17, 2011
LGBT Youth and Hate Crimes: The Experts Weigh In
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We hosted a live chat on Facebook this week addressing the larger issues the film Two Spirits brings up for people. Hate crimes and bullying against LGBT youth has been…...
June 17, 2011
Judy Shepard: Children, Hate Crimes, and a Community of Grief and Progress
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Judy Shepard lost her son Matthew in 1998 in a horrific hate crime. She is now the president and co-founder of the Matthew Shepard Foundation. She sent us this blog…...
June 17, 2011
Cathy Renna on the Legacy of Fred Martinez
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Cathy Renna, managing partner at Renna Communications and former organizer and spokesperson for GLAAD, is featured in the film Two Spirits. She wrote this blog post for us. It is hard…...
June 14, 2011
Two Spirits: Gender as a Spectrum, Not a Divide
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