Press Releases

(San Francisco, CA) — Independent Lens gets off to a hard-driving start with the premiere of award-winning filmmaker Ramona Diaz’s delightful Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey, the real life rock and roll fairy tale of Filipino Arnel Pineda, who was plucked from YouTube to become the frontman for the iconic American rock band Journey. The film…

Spanish Version Below (San Francisco, CA) – The Graduates/Los Graduados, a new two-part special from filmmaker Bernardo Ruiz, explores the many roots of the Latino dropout crisis through the eyes of six inspiring young students from across the United States who are part of an on-going effort to increase graduation rates for a growing Latino population.…

(San Francisco, CA) – The Waiting Room is an extraordinary immersive documentary that goes behind the doors of Oakland’s Highland Hospital, a safety-net hospital fighting for survival while weathering the storm of a persistent economic downturn. Stretched to the breaking point, Highland is the primary care facility for 250,000 patients of nearly…

Niños De La Memoria (Children of Memory), about the search for children who disappeared during the Salvadoran civil war, will be broadcast on Global Voices, Sunday June 30, 2013, at 10:00pm. Niños De La Memoria tells the story of the search for children, now adults, who disappeared during the Salvadoran civil war, survivors of massacres carried out by…

Ten years after the US-led war in Iraq, thousands of displaced Iraqi refugees are still facing a crisis in the United States, yet their personal stories have been mostly underreported. The Lost Dream, which premieres nationally on the WORLD channel’s critically acclaimed Global Voices, presents an intimate portrait of two such refugees in the DC…