Press Releases
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1971 Premieres on Independent Lens Monday, May 18, 2015, on PBS
December 10, 2014(San Francisco, CA) — On March 8, 1971, a band of suburban parents, university professors, and community leaders broke into a small FBI field office in Media, Pennsylvania, just outside Philadelphia. Calling themselves the Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI, the eight activists took hundreds of secret files and shared them anonymously with…
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A Path Appears, a Special Presentation of Independent Lens, Premieres Mondays, January 26 to February 9, 2015, on PBS
November 24, 2014(San Francisco, CA) — A Path Appears, from the creative team behind the groundbreaking series Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, follows author/reporters Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn and celebrity activists Malin Akerman, Mia Farrow, Ronan Farrow, Jennifer Garner, Regina Hall, Ashley Judd, Blake Lively,…
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The Kill Team Premieres on Independent Lens Monday, January 19, 2015, on PBS
November 11, 2014(San Francisco, CA) — The Kill Team goes behind closed doors to tell the harrowing story of Specialist Adam Winfield, a 21-year-old infantryman in Afghanistan who — with the help of his father — attempted to alert the military to heinous war crimes being committed by his platoon. Tragically, his father's pleas for help went unheeded. Once Adam’s fellow…
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Rich Hill, Winner of the Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary, Premieres on Independent Lens Monday, January 5, 2015, on PBS
October 22, 2014(San Francisco, CA) — Produced and directed by Tracy Droz Tragos and Andrew Droz Palermo, Rich Hill goes inside the homes and lives of small town America, where kids confront heartbreaking choices, marginalized parents struggle to survive, and families cling to the promise of equal opportunity and a better life — someday. The film follows three teenage…
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Happiness Premieres on Independent Lens Monday, November 17, 2014, on PBS
October 7, 2014(San Francisco, CA) — In 1999, King Jigme Singye Wangchuck made a landmark proclamation approving the use of television and the internet in the tiny South Asian nation of Bhutan, promising to usher in a new modern era and increase the nation’s “gross national happiness.” But he cautioned the youth of the country in his speech, warning that TV and the internet…