Press Releases
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Johnny Symons’s Acclaimed Ask Not, About the U.S. Military’s Controversial Don’t’ Ask, Don’t Tell Policy, to Air Nationally on the Emmy® Award–Winning PBS Series Independent Lens on Tuesday, June 16
May 19, 2009Visit the companion website >> “One of the primary reasons behind the intelligence failures leading to 9/11 was that the Department of Defense’s National Security Agency did not have enough Arabic linguists to translate the backlog of intelligence from Arabic into English before 9/11. And one of the ones that really struck me was a small phrase in…
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Steal a Pencil for Me Premieres Tuesday, May 26, 2009, on the Emmy Award–Winning PBS Series Independent Lens
May 7, 2009Visit the companion website >> (San Francisco, USA) — If anyone ever wanted proof of the power of the human spirit, STEAL A PENCIL FOR ME is it. Directed and produced by Academy Award® nominee Michèle Ohayon, STEAL A PENCIL FOR ME is a transcendent story of hope and a love that survives even genocide. Following its critically acclaimed theatrical…
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Wings of Defeat to Premiere on May 5, 2009, on the Emmy Award–Winning PBS Series Independent Lens
May 7, 2009Visit the companion website >> (San Francisco)—Reviled in the West as precursors of suicide bombers, yet still hallowed as selfless martyrs by many Japanese, Kamikaze pilots are surrounded by myth, misinformation and cross-cultural misunderstanding. Who were these young men—many still in their teens—who became human bombs for the sake of…
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Stacy Peralta’s Crips and Bloods: Made in America Premieres Tuesday, May 12, 2009, on the Emmy® Award–Winning PBS Series Independent Lens
May 7, 2009Visit the companion website >> “One thing you have to realize. If you opened them up, there would be a stamp under their shirt that says ‘Made in America.’ They weren’t made in Taiwan or Indonesia. They were made in America.” —Kumasi, former gang member (San Francisco, CA)—In the southern portion of the richest city in the richest state in America, a…
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Gonzalo Arijon’s Award-Winning Documentary Stranded: The Andes Plane Crash Survivors to Air Nationally on the PBS Series Independent Lens on Tuesday, May 19, 2009
May 7, 2009Visit the companion website >> (San Francisco, CA)—In December 1972, the world was shocked by the miraculous story of sixteen young men—rugby players from Uruguay—who went to extraordinary measures to survive 72 days after their plane crashed high in snowy peaks of the Andes. It’s one of the great survival stories of all time, and now, 35 years…