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September 19, 2011

Women & Girls Lead Coming to PBS This Fall

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Independent Lens is honored to be a part of the innovative public media initiative Women and Girls Lead. The project seeks to use the power of documentary storytelling and the…...

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,…...

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…...

May 25, 2011

Women and Girls Lead Featured at PBS Annual Meeting

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We kicked it off with Bhutto two weeks ago, and last week the PBS family assembled in Orlando, Florida and discussed the ITVS initiative Women and Girls Lead. Check out…...

March 15, 2011

Desert of Forbidden Art Museum Threatened in Uzbekistan

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As the film opens theatrically in a few select cities in the United States, its subject -- the remarkable collection of suppressed Soviet-era art that was hidden away in Uzbekistan…...

February 11, 2011

Egyptian Revolution is a Teachable Moment

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The Independent Television Service (which produces Independent Lens) and PBS NewsHour have partnered to help provide Egypt & Democracy, an amazing range of resources for educators to help frame events…...

January 11, 2011

Crisis in Haiti Especially Dire for Children

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Children of Haiti premieres on Independent Lens tonight at 10 PM. As tomorrow's one-year anniversary of the devastating earthquake approaches, the media is alight with stories of rebuilding efforts, humanitarian…...

December 22, 2010

The Resurgence of the Documentary

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Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times film critic, devoted his year-end column to documentary films, which he says enjoyed "remarkable resurgence" in 2010: "It's also hardly a secret that the…...

December 07, 2010

Five Independent Lens Films Win IDA Awards

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Wow, what a weekend. The International Documentary Awards bestowed high honors on several films that will make their broadcast premiere on Independent Lens in coming months. We want to extend…...

October 27, 2010

The Loss of an Artist: Vanessa Gould Remembers Eric Joisel

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The world lost a gentle and brilliant origamist earlier this month in Eric Joisel, the master paper folder featured in Vanessa Gould's Peabody Award-winning film Between the Folds. The film,…...

October 21, 2010

Independent Lens Comes to You with Community Cinema

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If you read today's New York Times, you may have read about a pretty cool outreach program that brings our films into local communities in partnership with area and national…...