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Ramona Diaz Explores Reproductive Justice in the Philippines
May 12, 2020Ramona Diaz talks about her powerful ITVS Open Call and Diversity Development Fund-supported film "Motherland," including how she got through the complicated shoot at the world’s busiest maternity hospital, in Manila.
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Native Filmmaker Jeffrey Palmer Tells N. Scott Momaday's Story
October 29, 2019Native American filmmaker Jeffrey Palmer talks with writer Jason Asenap about making a film on one of the preeminent Native writers, N. Scott Momaday, including how he shot the flashback recreations and animated sequences.
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Alison Klayman on Filming Ai Weiwei
February 22, 2013Independent Lens sat down with filmmaker Alison Klayman to talk about the joys and challenges of filming China's most famous artist and dissident, Ai Weiwei. Her film, Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, premieres on Independent Lens February 25 at 10 PM (check local listings). Ai Weiwei is arguably the most internationally celebrated Chinese artist of the…
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Brad Lichtenstein on How BizVizz Can Help You Shop Smarter
February 5, 2013Filmmaker Brad Lichtenstein, the man behind the new app BizVizzBizVizz is a brand-new free iPhone app that makes corporate behavior transparent and available to all. Just snap a picture of a brand’s logo or bar code, and presto: A simple, graphic screen tells you the financial truth about 300 of America’s largest corporations. Independent Lens sat…
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Anna Deavere Smith on the PBS Arts Summer Festival
June 29, 2012Actor Anna Deaveare Smith discusses her role as host of the PBS Arts Summer Festival with BTB. The interview was conducted last January at the TCA Press Tour in Los Angeles, where the actor was performing her one-woman-show Let Me Down Easy. The PBS Arts Summer Festival expands the scope and diversity of the arts on television, with a multi-part weekly…
