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Independent Lens and ITVS Receive 11 News and Documentary Emmy Nominations
July 12, 2012The News and Documentary Emmy nominations are in and several Independent Lens docs and ITVS-funded films have been recognized. You can find a complete list of all the nominated films after the jump. Congratulations to the filmmakers!Independent LensBhutto by Duane Baughman and Johnny O'HaraOutstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story - Long…
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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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The Desert of Forbidden Art Opens in New York
March 11, 2011Documentary on Russian Art will air April 5 on Independent Lens The Desert of Forbidden Art, by filmmakers Amanda Pope and Tchavdar Georgiev tells the incredible story about a group of visionary Soviet-era artists and one man who risked his life to rescue their work. Coming to Independent Lens on April 5, the documentary has its theatrical release in New…