January 02, 2015
Filmmaker-Cousins Return to Rich Hill
Craig Phillips in Interviews
Rich Hill won the U.S. Grand Jury Prize at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and plenty of critical acclaim — Katie Walsh of Indiewire called it "a truly moving and edifying film...the type…...
October 13, 2014
Kelby Johnson Speaks Out Against Bullying
Craig Phillips in Beyond the Films
Kelby Johnson was one of several students featured in Lee Hirsch's powerful film Bully. After coming out as a lesbian as a teenager, Kelby and Kelby's family were treated as pariahs in their small town…...
April 11, 2014
The Trials of Muhammad Ali: Q&A with Bill Siegel
Independent Lens in Interviews
Editor's note: This interview with filmmaker Bill Siegel is brought to you in partnership with our friends at POV, and conducted by excellent, widely-respected independent journalist Tom Roston. By Tom…...
February 14, 2014
Filmmaker Cristina Ibarra Explores Unique Debutante Ball in Las Marthas
Craig Phillips in Interviews
Cristina Ibarra's critically-acclaimed documentary The Last Conquistador had a national broadcast on PBS’s P.O.V., and now she's returning to PBS with Las Marthas, which premieres on Independent Lens Monday, February 17…...
January 20, 2014
Blood Brother Filmmakers Chat About Personal Journey to India
Craig Phillips in Behind the Films
If ever a project was a "labor of love," it'd be Steve Hoover's documentary Blood Brother, which is about the journey his friend Rocky Braat took, both literally and spiritually.…...
November 14, 2013
Indian Relay: Q&A with Filmmaker Charles Dye
Craig Phillips in Interviews
Filmmaker Charles Dye moved around a lot growing up, but always in the West: New Mexico, California, Texas, Arizona — and it was in this last place where he went to high…...
April 05, 2013
Eugene Jarecki on Fighting the Good Fight and Taking a Closer Look at the War on Drugs
Independent Lens in Interviews
We sat down with acclaimed filmmaker Eugene Jarecki to talk with him about his penetrating look at the profound human rights implications of America’s longest war: the War on Drugs.…...
February 15, 2013
Powerbroker Filmmaker Bonnie Boswell on How Her Youth Shaped Her Film
826chi in Interviews
Filmmaker Bonnie Boswell has an unusually close tie to her film, The Powerbroker: Whitney Young’s Fight for Civil Rights. Whitney Young, Jr., was her uncle, and his parents helped raise…...
June 08, 2012
Evoking a Time When San Francisco Was a War Zone
826chi in Interviews
What led you to make this film at this point in time? A younger boyfriend who had heard me speak many times about my experiences living in San Francisco during…...
May 23, 2012
Documenting the Children Left Behind by American Soldiers in the Philippines
826chi in Interviews
We caught up with Emma Rossi Landi and Alberto Vendemmiati, co-producers and directors of Left by the Ship. They talk us through what brought them to the subject, and where the…...
March 28, 2012
Making a Film About Alzheimer’s From the Patient’s P.O.V.
826chi in Interviews
[caption id="attachment_945" align="alignleft" width="200"] Filmmaker Scott Kirschenbaum[/caption] This week's film, You're Looking at Me Like I Live Here and I Don't, premieres Thursday, March 29 at 10 PM (check local…...
February 16, 2012
Shukree Tilghman Wants to End (the Way We Think About) Black History Month
826chi in Interviews
Shukree Tilghman saw Morgan Freeman on 60 Minutes in 2006 say that he believed Black History Month shouldn't exist, because it was insulting to relegate an entire race's history to…...