June 19, 2015
POV 2015: More Great Docs to Get You Through Summer
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[caption id="attachment_7008" align="alignnone" width="600"] Out in the Night[/caption] Our friends at POV are ready to grab the baton for thought-provoking docs airing Mondays on PBS, with a new slate of films about…...
September 04, 2014
Independent Lens Announces New Fall Slate
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[caption id="attachment_5886" align="alignnone" width="600"] From Bully[/caption] On the heels of receiving ten News and Documentary Emmy nominations, Independent Lens announced today that its new season will open with the critically-acclaimed documentary…...
October 24, 2013
Gotham Awards: Independent Lens Films Nominated for Best Doc and for Audience Award
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Three Independent Lens films, Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey, Blood Brother (which will air on PBS in January), and The New Black (airing next June), are all up for IFP Gotham…...
June 18, 2013
Which Film Will Be This Season’s Audience Favorite? It’s Up to You!
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Statues, laurels, trophies, medals, plaques, certificates ... there are plenty of awards to be won in the film business, but there is only ONE Independent Lens Audience Award, honoring our…...
June 13, 2013
The Revolutionary Optimists Filmmakers on Finding Hope in Kolkata’s Slums
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Amlan Ganguly is a visionary. This lawyer-turned-community activist is not only changing a neighborhood, but also changing the way its youngest residents envision their lives. In this character-driven and highly…...
May 21, 2013
Wonder Women! Inspires Wonder City Game
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[caption id="attachment_4228" align="alignright" width="229"] Kristy Guevara-Flanagan and Kelcey Edwards[/caption] Originally posted on Beyond the Box. Wonder City has been developed as companion game to the PBS documentary feature, Wonder Women! The Untold Story…...
April 25, 2013
Director Marco Williams on the Making of The Undocumented
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[caption id="attachment_3919" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Filmmaker Marco Williams, director of The Undocumented[/caption] Since 1998, more than two thousand dead bodies have been found in Arizona’s Sonora Desert — the remains of…...
April 12, 2013
What’s YOUR Superpower?
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We’re all Wonder Women (or Men) inside, each with our own superpower. But sometimes, we daydream about being more than just a super-dad, super-banjo-strummer, or super-feminist. We want to levitate!…...
April 11, 2013
Filmmaker Kristy Guevara-Flanagan on the Making of Wonder Women!
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Directed by Kristy Guevara-Flanagan and produced by Kelcey Edwards, Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines airs Monday, April 15 at 10pm (check local listings). We recently spoke with…...
March 15, 2013
PBS Correspondent Goes Rogue at SXSW … Hilarity Ensues
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On Sunday, another South by Southwest (SXSW) will close its doors on the thousands of festival-goers, wrapping up nine full days of original music, independent films, and emerging technologies. With…...
February 22, 2013
Ai Weiwei Sparks Social Media Flames in China
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Ai Weiwei is a fearless Tweeter. In 140-character snippets, the gruff Chinese artist, activist, and the subject of Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (airing Monday, Feb. 25, on Independent Lens) defends freedom…...
February 19, 2013
Get Your Dose of History: 8 Documentaries for Black History Month
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[caption id="attachment_10211" align="alignnone" width="1536"] More Than a Month Filmmaker Shukree Tighman dressed as a Union soldier[/caption] The most fascinating chapters of America’s past, including our stories of tragedy, pride, creativity,…...