Outta the Muck
Interviews
February 15, 2023
Beyond Football: Pahokee, Florida’s History of Black Resilience
Craig Phillips in Behind the Films
This community and the surrounding area around the southern shores of Lake Okeechobee, Florida, has a rich history, but the people of Pahokee's past has often been skipped over, even…...
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…...
Storming Caesars Palace
Free Chol Soo Lee
Mama Bears
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.…...
Interviews
April 22, 2022
Telling Asian American Stories That Resonate: Filmmaker Explores Why These High School Students Are Stressed Out
Craig Phillips in Behind the Films
During her long time living in the San Francisco Bay Area, filmmaker Debbie Lum was greatly influenced by working as an editor for documentarian Spencer Nakasako. Lum as a youth…...
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…...
Interviews
January 10, 2022
Confronting the Agonizing Facts of Life and Death in Brooks County
Craig Phillips in Interviews
Missing in Brooks County is an eye-opening investigation set in an unforgiving region of South Texas, where migrants go missing more than anywhere else in the United States. The documentary…...