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Visit the program companion website >> (San Francisco)—Independent Lens will air another installment in the popular December short film showcase, SHORT STACK 2006, featuring the grand prize-winners of the first annual Independent Lens Online Shorts Festival. In addition, MY LIFE...DISORIENTED, a half-hour comedy/drama by award-winning…

Visit the program companion website (San Francisco, CA)—They live and work in a place where la revolucion is not an event from the past but a way of life. What does perpetual revolution mean to an artist? And how do we take its picture? REVOLUCION: Five Visions explores the Cuban revolution through the personal stories of five photographers whose lives and…

Visit the program companion website (San Francisco, CA)—“Fante was my God,” said Charles Bukowski. But the author of what are now considered some of the finest novels of his time was largely ignored during his lifetime; Fante was a bitter renegade who spent his non-writing hours drinking, gambling, and toiling miserably as a Hollywood screenwriter for…

Visit the program companion website for more information on the film >>View a preview of Ms. Politkovskaya’s interview >> (San Francisco, CA) It is with great sadness that the Emmy-Award winning PBS series Independent Lens reports that acclaimed Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered Saturday in Moscow.…

(San Francisco, California)—The Independent Television Service (ITVS) announced today that its film anthology series, Independent Lens, which airs weekly on PBS, has received its second national Emmy Award. The Independent Lens episode, A LION'S TRAIL, picked up the Emmy for Outstanding Cultural & Artistic Programming at the prestigious 27th…