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05/12/2008
PBS Series Independent Lens Announces Agreement to Acquire Brett Morgen’s CHICAGO 10 From Participant Media and River Road Entertainment to Headline New Season
Film explores the buildup to and unraveling of the Chicago conspiracy trial after the 1968 Democratic Convention

05/09/2008
Partnership Will Bring Together Public Broadcasters from Four Nations to Bring Attention to the Global Water Crisis

04/30/2008
WRIT WRITER to Premiere on PBS’s Independent Lens on Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Unlikely hero fought the Texas legal system and changed prisons forever

04/30/2008
Morgan Neville’s THE COOL SCHOOL to Have its Broadcast Premiere on the Emmy Award–Winning PBS Series Independent Lens on Tuesday, June 10, 2008
An entertaining look at the rise of the postwar L.A. art scene

04/30/2008
DEEP WATER, a Stunning Psychological Thriller about the Most Daunting Nautical Challenge Ever
Film to premiere on the PBS series Independent Lens on Sunday, June 15, 2008 at 9 PM

04/30/2008
Independent Lens’s 2007–2008 Season Concludes With the Unforgettable True-Life Thriller ABDUCTION: The Megumi Yokota Story
Airs nationally on Thursday, June 19 at 10 PM

04/21/2008
Groundbreaking School Unites Jewish and Arab Children, BRIDGE OVER THE WADI Reveals What Happpens When Two Sides Set Aside Deep-Rooted History of Conflict
Film to premiere on Global Voices series on PBS WORLD channel Sunday, May 4, at 10 PM

04/08/2008
TIE A YELLOW RIBBON to Air on Public Television During May 2008
First feature drama by Joy Dietrich offers compelling view into the lives of young Asian American women through the eyes of a Korean adoptee

04/03/2008
THREE ITVS FILMS GARNER 2007 PEABODY AWARDS
First-time wins for Independent Lens series and ITVS International program

03/26/2008
NA KAMALEI: The Men of Hula to Have its Broadcast Premiere on the Emmy Award–Winning PBS Series Independent Lens on Tuesday, May 6, at 10:30 PM
Story of Hawaiian male pride that goes beyond stereotype of “grass skirt girls”

03/20/2008
OH, SAIGON to Premiere on PBS in May 2008
Filmmaker explores her own family’s story—helicoptered out of Saigon on the last day of the Vietnam War as they attempt to resolve their divided past

03/18/2008
COMPAÑERAS, Rousing Documentary about America’s First All-Female Mariachi Band, to Have its Broadcast Premiere on the Emmy Award–Winning PBS Series Independent Lens on Tuesday, April 1, 2008, at 10:00 PM

03/18/2008
Gwendolen Cates’s WATER FLOWING TOGETHER, an Intimate Portrait of Dancer Jock Soto, to Have its Broadcast Premiere on the Emmy Award–Winning PBS Series Independent Lens on Tuesday, April 8, 2008, at 10:00 PM

03/12/2008
ITVS INTERACTIVE’S WORLD WITHOUT OIL, AN ALTERNATE REALITY GAME WINS “ACTIVISM” AWARD AT SXSW WEB AWARDS
ARG Called Upon the Internet’s Vast Collective Intelligence to Address Peak Oil Concerns

03/06/2008
PBS's Independent Lens and the Independent Television Service (ITVS) Launch Filmocracy, a Video Mashup Contest About the Politics of Food
Grand prize is $1,000 and nationwide screenings

03/05/2008
As the Eyes of the World Turn to China and the Upcoming Summer Olympics, CIRCUS SCHOOL Offers Rare Look into China’s Most Prestigious Acrobatic School
Film to premiere on Global Voices series on PBS WORLD channel Sunday, March 30, at 10:00 PM

03/05/2008
NEW YEAR BABY to Premiere on PBS’s Independent Lens Tuesday, May 27, 2008
A daughter’s search for the truth about family secrets

02/11/2008
ITVS International Launches New Series, Global Voices, on PBS WORLD Channel on Sunday, March 30, At 10:00 PM

02/07/2008
ITVS International’s Global Perspectives Project Makes Big Waves Around the World
Independent films funded through ground-breaking worldwide media initiative taking home prestigious festival awards, earning glowing accolades

02/07/2008
A DREAM IN DOUBT: When You Look Like America’s Enemy, Is the Dream Worth the Price?
Film to premiere on the PBS series Independent Lens Tuesday, May 20, 2008

02/07/2008
KING CORN: Entertaining and Enlightening Film about the Odyssey of One Acre of Corn from Farm to Food Supply
Film to premiere on the PBS series Independent Lens on Tuesday, April 15, 2008

02/07/2008
PBS Series Independent Lens Announces Second Half of 2007/2008 Season
Highlights Include the theatrical successes KING CORN and DEEP WATER

01/24/2008
ITVS-Funded Documentary OPERATION HOMECOMING: Writing the Wartime Experience Receives Academy Award® Nomination for Best Documentary Feature
Film is part of the acclaimed America at a Crossroads documentary series about the challenges confronting the world post-9/11

01/17/2008
IRON LADIES OF LIBERIA to have its broadcast premiere on the Emmy Award–winning PBS series Independent Lens on Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Film goes inside Liberia for a look at the country’s history-making new president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

01/14/2008
FATWORLD: Online Game Explores America’s Obesity Crisis
Web users invited to take the challenge: Fit or fat? Live or Die? You decide.

12/28/2007
Macky Alston’s HARD ROAD HOME to Air on PBS’s Independent Lens on February 26, 2008
Film showcases the work of Harlem’s Exodus Transitional Community, where ex-cons help ex-cons find a life “on the outside”

12/28/2007
BANISHED Reveals Shameful Chapter in U.S. History: The Racial Cleansing of Dozens of Towns
Film to premiere on the PBS series Independent Lens on Tuesday, February 19, 2008

12/17/2007
Independent Lens Launches Second Annual Online Shorts Festival
Online viewers will select audience award winner

12/17/2007
TANGIER TREEHOUSE: Hope Begins at Home, a One-Hour Documentary about the Lives and Choices of Children in Morocco to Premier on Public Television in February 2008
Film tells inspiring tale of hope among despair and offers intimate window into the lives of disenfranchised Arab youth

12/17/2007
ITVS Continues Strong Presence at Sundance Film Festival with Four Films in World Cinema Competition
First year that ITVS International films to premiere at world-renown festival

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