Press Releases

(San Francisco, CA) — September 12, 2014 — Independent Television Service (ITVS) announced today the launch of its fourth year of documentary broadcasts in support of Women and Girls Lead (WAGL), an innovative public media campaign designed to celebrate, educate, and activate women, girls, and their allies across the globe to address the challenges of…

(San Francisco, CA) — There are 1.5 billion people living without electricity worldwide and, of these, 400 million live in India. Kanpur, India, home to over three million people, is a once-booming industrial center that has been turned into an urban nightmare by a shortage of reliable electricity. With constant power outages that can last up to 15 hours a…

(San Francisco, CA) — September 3, 2014 — On the heels of receiving ten News and Documentary Emmy nominations, Independent Lens announced today that its new season opens with the critically-acclaimed documentary Bully. Directed by Sundance and Emmy Award-winner Lee Hirsch, the film brings human scale to this emotional issue, offering an intimate,…

(San Francisco, CA) — On Monday, April 25, 2005, a West Japan Railway commuter train carrying 700 passengers smashed into an Osaka apartment building at 117 kilometers per hour, killing 107 people, including the driver. Official reports later concluded that the cause of the accident was the driver, who was frantically speeding because he was 80 seconds…

(San Francisco, CA) — Twin Sisters tells the amazing true story of Mia and Alexandra, twin Chinese infants found in a cardboard box and taken to an orphanage in 2003. Thousands of miles away, two hopeful families — Wenche and Sigmund in Norway, and Andy and Angela in Sacramento — got word that their search for a child was over. Each couple arrived in China to…