Spice Road Recipe Cards
Enjoy these recipes, in full size. These were included as part of the blog, “Stinky Lunch Kids Strike Back”: South Asians Redefine What American Food Can Mean. … Read More
Lifestyle
November 17, 2023
“Stinky Lunch Kids Strike Back”: South Asians Redefine What American Food Can Mean
Independent Lens in Beyond the Films
By Bedatri D. Choudhury Journalist and chef Pervaiz Shallwani’s mother moved from Pakistan to Toronto, where she ate her first hot dog in 1975. “She thought it was the grossest…...
Sister Úna Lived a Good Death
Following a cancer diagnosis, Sister Úna—a mischievous, rule-breaking Catholic nun dedicated to social justice—chooses to live as she’s dying. In this touching end-of-life documentary, the self-proclaimed “leader of the misfits” plans her funeral in her last nine months to live. Read More
Matter of Mind: My Parkinson’s
Three people—a political cartoonist, a mother turned boxing coach, and an optician—navigate their lives with resourcefulness and determination in the face of a degenerative illness, Parkinson’s disease. Read More
Razing Liberty Square
Liberty City, Miami, was home to one of the oldest segregated public housing projects in the U.S. Now with rising sea levels, the neighborhood’s higher ground has become something else: real estate gold. Wealthy property owners push inland to higher ground, creating a speculators’ market in the historically Black neighborhood… Read More
Breaking The News
Who decides which stories get told? A scrappy group of women and LGBTQ+ journalists buck the white male-dominated status quo, banding together to launch The 19th*, a digital news startup aiming to combat misinformation. A story of an America in flux, and the voices often left out of the narrative,… Read More
Greener Pastures
There is a mental health crisis happening for many American farmers. A combination of climate change, the pandemic, and the domination of megafarms have contributed to increasing economic uncertainty and isolation. Following four family farms in the Midwest over several years, the documentary Greener Pastures is a story of perseverance… Read More
A Thousand Pines
One With the Whale
Hunting whales is a matter of life or death for the residents of St. Lawrence. When a shy Alaska Native teen becomes the youngest person ever to harpoon a whale for his village, his family is blindsided by thousands of keyboard activists brutally attacking him online—without full perspective on the… Read More
Beyond the Films
September 05, 2023
Got Climate Anxiety? You’re Not Alone, but Here’s How to Cope
Independent Lens in Beyond the Films
By Jennie Rose With climate-related events bombarding us on a seemingly daily basis, there's naturally a corresponding increase in eco-anxiety, a chronic fear of environmental devastation. The Independent Lens short…...
Interviews
August 30, 2023
Feeding Our “Hungry Ghosts”: The Misunderstood Pain Behind Addiction
Independent Lens in Behind the Films
By Ivonne Spinoza Brother is an intimate portrayal of addiction that makes us question our preconceptions and helps shed light on what really goes on inside the mind of a…...
El Equipo
