Children of Las Brisas
Interviews
January 17, 2023
From Podcast to Doc: Erika Alexander and Whitney Dow on Their Reparation Collaboration
Craig Phillips in Behind the Films
Will the burden to make restitution for Black Americans ever be addressed, or is it too late for a reparations movement to finally happen? That question is at the center…...
Beyond the Films
September 13, 2022
The Psychology of Groupthink and the Desperate, Dangerous Desire for Social Acceptance
Craig Phillips in Beyond the Films
There's a slippery slope in the climb toward social acceptance. Why do people do what they do to be part of something, not just in college environments but in foreign…...
Storming Caesars Palace
The Picture Taker
From his Memphis studio,… Read More
Folk Frontera
Far West Texas is a place where local folklore looms as large as the landscape. Two fronteriza women—one a public radio music show host, the other a Mariachi and folklórico dancer—live in two cultures at the same time, as they struggle to find their place in the vast Chihuahuan Desert. Read More
Interviews
May 03, 2022
A Path to Forgiveness Complicated by Race and Justice: A Conversation with Claude Motley and Brad Lichtenstein
Craig Phillips in Behind the Films
Filmmaker Brad Lichtenstein was nominated for a News & Documentary Emmy Award for the Independent Lens/PBS film As Goes Janesville, which was about a blue-collar town struggling to renew itself.…...
Beyond the Films
May 02, 2022
A Wild Two Years Since ‘Try Harder’: What You Need to Know About Lowell High School
Independent Lens in Beyond the Films
By Holly McDede Bay Area filmmaker Debbie Lum’s documentary Try Harder! captures the unnerving pressure facing seniors at San Francisco’s elite Lowell High School, where students need high grades and…...
Beyond the Films
March 28, 2022
Women Journalists Are Targeted Just for Reporting the Facts
Independent Lens in Beyond the Films
By Lennlee Keep Journalism is a male-dominated field around the globe. A global report on the Status of Women in the News Media by the International Women in Media foundation…...
Interviews
March 15, 2022
Oscar-Nominated “Writing With Fire” Goes Inside India’s Only All-Women Newspaper
Craig Phillips in Interviews
Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh, co-directors, made a long journey metaphorically and literally with their film Writing With Fire, from northern India's Uttar Pradesh state, where they worked on the…...
Interviews
February 11, 2022
How Incarceration Affects Mothers and Their Children
Craig Phillips in Beyond the Films
Jennifer Redfearn, an Oscar-nominated director and producer (Sun Come Up) and current director of the documentary program at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, made the documentary Apart—with producer/cinematographer Tim…...
Beyond the Films
February 03, 2022
“Death Valley for Migrants”: The Invisible Cost of Border Crossing
Independent Lens in Beyond the Films
By Ivonne Spinoza What is more important: laws or lives? This is the question at the center of the immigration debate and its ramifications. Conversations around illegal border crossings often…...