PBS Tune-in Alert: RESOLVE TO SOLVE, MADE IN THE WEST & More
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INDEPENDENT LENS TV Listings and Info
Airing weekly on PBS, the five-time Emmy Award-winning series Independent Lens is an independent film festival in your living room. Each week we bring you another original documentary film, each made by one of the best independent filmmakers working today.
This season, Independent Lens returns with 22 independent films that will transport you and challenge you to experience universal human themes from unique perspectives. We will delve into issues emerging from the economic crisis in America, from job loss to wealth disparity; examine the origins of soul food, its importance in African American culture, and its serious health implications; we will examine a military culture in which female soldiers are sexually assaulted at a terrifying rate, and their attackers often left unpunished; we
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The docuseries, narrated by Tarriona "Tank" Ball, explores ritual practices across the American South, from New Orleans second lines to ancestral traditions....
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Mosaic Theater Company to Present Workshop of POSTMORTEM
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A THOUSAND PINES Set To Premiere On Independent Lens in April
“A Thousand Pines,” the intimate documentary following a season of Oaxacan tree planters traveling the United States, directed and produced by Noam Osband and Sebastián Díaz, explores the hidden world of guest workers regrowing America's forests and the challenges the workers and their familie...
A THOUSAND PINES Adds Film Festival Dates Before PBS Broadcast On Independent Lens
Directed by Noam Osband and Sebastián Díaz, A Thousand Pines is set in the beautiful and sometimes unforgiving landscape of the United States' national forests. The first documentary to tell the story of workers in the US timber industry follows Raymundo Morales, the foreman of a crew of migrant w...
GREENER PASTURES To Premiere On Independent Lens
From first-time feature director/producer Samuel-Ali Mirpoorian and producer Ian Robertson Kibbe, the documentary follows the daily lives of four Midwestern farm families in Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin over five years, as a combination of climate change, the pandemic, and the domi...
PBS Shines Spotlight On Vital Ocean-Focused Programming Complementing Ongoing Initiative
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Confronting Palm Springs' Problematic Past, RACIST TREES Premieres On Independent Lens Next Month
The documentary captures an inside look at the frustrations of residents of the historically Black Lawrence Crossley Tract neighborhood, who are cut off from the glitz and glamour of Palm Springs, due to the planting of 60-foot tamarisk trees that overshadow the community and are viewed as a symbol ...
Oscar Contenders Air On Independent Lens In January
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World Channel Celebrates Juneteenth With 19 Films
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Joe Wong's RUSSIAN DOLL Season One & Two Soundtrack Sets Release
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MOVE ME to Play at Full Frame Doc and ReelAbilities Film Festivals
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