Press Releases

(San Francisco, CA) — In Revenge of the Electric Car, director Chris Paine takes us behind the closed doors of Nissan, GM, Tesla Motors, and the garage of an independent car converter to tell the story of four leaders behind the global comeback for the electric car. With almost every major carmaker now announcing plug-in models, Revenge of the Electric Car…

(San Francisco, CA) — You're Looking At Me Like I Live Here And I Don't is a mesmerizing first-person account of Lee Gorewitz’s life inside the Traditions Alzheimer's & Other Dementia Care Unit at the Reutlinger Community for Jewish Living in Danville, California. A total immersion into the fragmented day-to-day experience of the disease, the film…

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Independent Television Service (ITVS), the nation’s largest public funder of independent film, announced today that two of its acclaimed productions, Hell and Back Again (Danfung Dennis, Producer/Director; Mike Lerner, Producer; and Martin Herring, Producer) and If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (Marshall…

(San Francisco, CA) - In February 2012, Independent Lens will lead the celebration of Black History Month on public television with premieres of three new documentaries that shine a unique light on the history of African American activism, with one provocatively re-examining of the whole idea of Black History Month. Independent Lens's Black History…

(San Francisco - December 30, 2011)— In March of 2008, 250 veterans and active duty soldiers marked the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq by gathering in Washington D.C. to testify from their own experience about the nature of the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq. Inspired by the 1971 Winter Soldier Investigation held by the Vietnam Veterans…