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Can YouTube Save Independent Documentaries? – IDA
As federal defunding dismantles public media, PBS’s independent partners are betting on YouTube’s reach—though some filmmakers aren’t convinced the platform serves them.
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Natchez on NPR’s Weekend Edition
Suzannah Herbert and Darcy McKinnon discuss their film
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Julie Forrest Wyman Exclusive Interview in People
Filmmaker explores her place in the community of little people in the new PBS documentary 'The Tallest Dwarf'
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Filmmaker Examines Her Family’s Hidden History in “Light of the Setting Sun,” Premiering May 18 on PBS’s Independent Lens
Vicky Du’s Deeply Personal Documentary Traces the Lasting Impact of Displacement and Silence Across Four Generations of Her Chinese Family
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“Third Act,” A Son’s Portrait of Pioneering Filmmaker Robert A. Nakamura, Premieres May 25 on Independent Lens
Filmmaker Tad Nakamura Honors Father’s Legacy as Godfather of Asian American Media While Reflecting on Inherited Trauma and a Lifetime of Storytelling
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Acclaimed Documentary “Natchez” Premieres May 11 on Independent Lens
Suzannah Herbert Captures a Mississippi Town Reckoning with Its Complicated Past Amid Antebellum Tourism
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PBS Teams With ITVS to Launch YouTube Documentaries Channel – The Hollywood Reporter
The hub for nonfiction fare aims to help public television “meet new audiences where they already are,” says PBS president and CEO Paula Kerger.
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Update to ITVS Production Agreements
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Independent Lens Acquires Sundance Hit ‘Ghost In The Machine’ – Deadline
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Three ITVS Films Make the 2025 Top 10 Disability Representation List – FWD-DOC
Life After, SEEDS, and Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore, have been recognized on the 2025 Top 10 Disability Representation List from Filmmakers with Disabilities
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Spotlighting the Immigrant Workforce Sustaining the Kentucky Derby, “Backside: The Unseen Hands of Horse Racing,” Premieres as an Independent Lens/VOCES Co-Presentation on April 13
Documentary Looks Beyond the Glamour and Pageantry to the Unseen Workers Keeping Horseracing’s Biggest Stage Running
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