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India's Daughter filmmaker Leslee Udwin
Interviews

November 13, 2015

India’s Daughter Director Leslee Udwin on the Rape Case that Shocked a Nation

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[caption id="attachment_11517" align="alignnone" width="813"] Candle-lit vigils were held throughout India to mourn the death of Jyoti Singh[/caption] It should go without saying that documentary filmmakers put their hearts and souls…...

Filmmaker Theo Love

April 03, 2015

Theo Love Finds Hope in Little Hope Was Arson

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Theo Love’s documentary Little Hope Was Arson, which premieres on Independent Lens on PBS Monday night April 6 at 10pm (check local listings), explores a chilling series of connected arson…...

American Denial filmmakers Llewellyn Smith, Christine Herbes-Sommers, and Kelly Thomson.

February 23, 2015

Christine Herbes-Sommers Talks about Film on Racial Bias in America, Then and Now

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[caption id="attachment_6486" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Gunnar Myrdal with Ralph Bunche in Washington D.C., 1942[/caption] American Denial tells the the story of Swedish researcher Gunnar Myrdal, whose landmark 1944 study, An American…...

Filmmakers Tracy Droz Tragos and Andrew Droz Palermo
Interviews

January 02, 2015

Filmmaker-Cousins Return to Rich Hill

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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…...

Headshot of How to Survive a Plague filmmaker David France
Interviews

December 30, 2013

How to Survive a Plague: Q&A with David France

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"The 2nd best film of the year" - Wesley Morris, Boston Globe Top Ten Movies of 2012. "It’s hard to overstate how ingenious France’s formal choices are...The material has been shaped…...

Invisible War filmmakers Amy Ziering and Kirby Dick.

May 09, 2013

Invisible War Director Kirby Dick on the Healing Power of Film

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The Invisible War (airing May 13 on Independent Lens) could hardly be broadcasting on a more relevant week. On Tuesday, the Pentagon released a report that showed a spike in…...

Seeking Asian Female director Debbie Lum with subject Steven.

May 02, 2013

Director Debbie Lum on Romance, “Rice Kings,” and Reluctantly Appearing in Her Film

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Reality is a slippery medium. Just when a documentary filmmaker thinks she understands a story, people surprise her. Such it was for Debbie Lum. When she first started filming Seeking…...

Sheriffs in New Mexico at Sunset, in House I Live In, photo by Derek Hallquist
Interviews

April 05, 2013

Eugene Jarecki on Fighting the Good Fight and Taking a Closer Look at the War on Drugs

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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.…...

B&W photo of Jerry Rothwell, director of Donor Unknown

October 18, 2011

Jerry Rothwell Explores the Meaning of Family in Donor Unknown

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Jerry Rothwell is a documentary filmmaker whose work includes the award-winning feature docs Heavy Load (IFC/ITVS/BBC), about a group of people with learning disabilities who form a punk band; and Deep…...