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New Lesson Plans Arrive for Pushing the Elephant
April 6, 2011ITVS Community Classroom announces the launch of an exciting new resource for teachers, NGOs and youth serving organizations, based on Pushing the Elephant, which aired last week on Independent Lens. This powerful family portrait is set against the wider drama of war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. When civil war came to Rose Mapendo’s Congolese…
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Filmmaker’s Documentary Examines Cult Behavior
April 6, 2011Filmmaker Vangie Griego explains why her documentary God Willing was destined for Public Television. The film airs this April, check local listings. Making God Willing was my educational journey to understand why my nephew, Daniel Garcia and young people like him, make the radical choice to abandon their former lives and families to join the Jim…
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Art in the Shadow of Extremism
April 5, 2011The Desert of Forbidden Art, airing Tuesday at 10PM on Independent Lens provides viewers with some of the art world’s best-kept secrets. Stalin consolidated his 1950's post-war power by declaring all modernist art “decadent” and “bourgeois.” Those caught practicing it were sent to the gulag, or executed. So archaeologist Igor Savitsky began his heroic…
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Paula Kerger Rings in Artists Month on Independent Lens
April 4, 2011PBS President & CEO Paula Kerger highlights the arts-stacked lineup on Independent Lens this April in celebration of Artists Month. Watch the video after the jump. Watch the full episode. See more Independent Lens. Join Independent Lens to celebrate creativity and art throughout the month of April: Special Section: Marginalized Art -- explore…
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Expose Yourself to FUTURESTATES
April 4, 2011Filmmaker Mia Trachinger’s sci-fi short Expsoure is streaming free on FUTURESTATES.tv. Roxanne Green's first job of the day is as a live-body contagion for the government, used to immunize urban populations. Can Roxanne's team of human contagions contain some uninfected workers inside their office building long enough to inoculate them? See for…