February 16, 2015
Black Family History Through a Lens
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Archival family photo from the Digital Diaspora Family Roadshow A wonderful companion piece to Thomas Allen Harris's film Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People is his…...
February 05, 2015
Esta Soler Imagines a Future Without Domestic Violence
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Esta Soler, an expert on violence against women and children, founded Futures Without Violence over 30 years ago and transformed it into one of the world’s leading violence prevention agencies.…...
January 23, 2015
Targeting Sex Buyers, Not Sex Sellers: Arresting Demand for Prostitution
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By Lisa Ko The following article is presented in conjunction with the broadcast television premiere of A Path Appears on PBS’s Independent Lens (airs Monday, January 26, February 2 &…...
January 19, 2015
Moral Dilemmas in 10 War Films
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The central dilemma in Dan Krauss's Independent Lens documentary The Kill Team is grappled with by an American soldier in Afghanistan who found members of his platoon were committing immoral war crimes, and wanted…...
January 12, 2015
Darius Clark Monroe’s Evolution from Criminal to Filmmaker
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[caption id="attachment_6221" align="alignnone" width="600"] Filmmaker Darius Clark Monroe[/caption] Darius Clark Monroe's own evolution from loving son, to incarcerated criminal, and then back to student and filmmaker, is quite a journey.…...
December 09, 2014
A Schedule Appears: Independent Lens Announces Winter/Spring ’15 Films
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Now that we have a brief respite in our schedule to catch our breath, we'd like to share with you what's coming next in this season of Independent Lens. On…...
December 06, 2014
And the winner of IDA Award for Best Curated Series goes to…
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At Friday night’s 30th annual IDA Documentary Awards, given out every year by the International Documentary Association to recognize and honor outstanding documentary films and filmmakers, Independent Lens was given…...
November 14, 2014
In Pursuit of “Happiness,” a Filmmaker Goes to Bhutan
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Filmmaker Thomas Balmès is no stranger to trotting the globe in search of human stories, in films including Bosnia Hotel and The Gospel According to the Papuans, and most famously capturing the stories of…...
October 30, 2014
Powerless Filmmakers Capture India’s Shocking Energy Crisis
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Powerless is the story of Kanpur, an industrial city in northern India, crumbling under the lack of infrastructure. Filmmaker Fahad Mustafa was born in Kanpur, and partnered with filmmaker Deepti…...
October 27, 2014
Is Time Itself Brakeless?
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The Nature of Time “I know this much: that there is objective time, but also subjective time, the kind you wear on the inside of your wrist, next to where…...
October 24, 2014
Brakeless Filmmaker Explores the Dangers of Time-Obsession
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Filmmaker Kyoko Miyake was born and raised in Japan, though she has lived in the UK for the last 12 years, in addition to a year-long stint in Paris. So…...
October 17, 2014
Twin Sisters Filmmaker Captures Sibling Bond
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Twin Sisters tells the story of the remarkable journey of identical twins, adopted by families from opposite ends of the world who discover their daughters are sisters. The film won the prestigious…...