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List Of Independent Lens Films
This is a list of films from the ''Independent Lens'' series on PBS. All airdates are relative to this series as many of these films were screened, either in theaters or on television, before becoming a part of the ''Independent Lens'' series. After the third season, PBS expanded and relaunched the series in 2003 declaring what is technically the fourth season as the new first season. As a result, any reference made by PBS or ITVS to a season number will be three less than the number represented in this list. For example, PBS declares the 2007-2008 season as season 6, but this complete list shows it as season 9. The 2014-2015 season is regarded as the 13th season for the series. Series overview Episodes Season 1 (1999) Season 2 (2000) Season 3 (2001) Season 4 (2003) Note: After the third season, PBS expanded and relaunched the series in 2003 declaring what is technically the fourth season as the new first season. As a result, any reference made by PBS or ITVS to a seas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent Lens
''Independent Lens'' is a weekly television series airing on PBS featuring documentary films made by independent filmmakers. Past seasons of ''Independent Lens'' were hosted by Angela Bassett, Don Cheadle, Susan Sarandon, Edie Falco, Terrence Howard, Maggie Gyllenhaal, America Ferrera, Mary-Louise Parker, and Stanley Tucci, who served two stints as host from 2012-2014. The series began in 1999 and for three years aired 10 episodes each fall season. In 2002, PBS announced that in 2003 the series would relaunch with ITVS as the production company, under the leadership of Sally Jo Fifer and Lois Vossen, and would expand to 29 primetime episodes a year. The 2019-20 season is regarded as the 18th season for the series. ''Independent Lens'' has won six Primetime Emmy Awards and 20 films have won News & Documentary Emmy Awards. In 2012, " Have You Heard From Johannesburg?" won for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking; in 2007, ''A Lion in the House'' won for Exceptional Merit in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Putnam
Tom or TOM may refer to: * Tom (given name), a diminutive of Thomas or Tomás or an independent Aramaic given name (and a list of people with the name) Characters * Tom Anderson, a character in ''Beavis and Butt-Head'' * Tom Beck, a character in the 1998 American science-fiction disaster movie '' Deep Impact'' * Tom Buchanan, the main antagonist from the 1925 novel ''The Great Gatsby'' * Tom Cat, a character from the ''Tom and Jerry'' cartoons * Tom Lucitor, a character from the American animated series ''Star vs. the Forces of Evil'' * Tom Natsworthy, from the science fantasy novel ''Mortal Engines'' * Tom Nook, a character in ''Animal Crossing'' video game series * Tom Servo, a robot character from the ''Mystery Science Theater 3000'' television series * Tom Sloane, a non-adult character from the animated sitcom ''Daria'' * Talking Tom, the protagonist from the ''Talking Tom & Friends'' franchise * Tom, a character from the '' Deltora Quest'' books by Emily Rodda * Tom, a cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Story Of The Greensboro Four
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Devlin (filmmaker)
Paul Josiah Devlin is an American sports editor and documentary filmmaker. Education Devlin is a B.A. graduate of the University of Michigan. While in high school he penned a now widely-shared - especially during the annual college admission season - 'I reject your rejection' letter to Harvard (and other colleges) that sent him rejections. Career A five-time Emmy winner for his work on NBC's Olympics and CBS's Tour de France, Devlin's films include '' Power Trip'', which screened in 60 countries, theatrically across the United States and on PBS's Independent Lens, was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award, and has won 10 film festival awards, including top prizes at Berlin, Hot Docs-Toronto, and Florida. Devlin also made the award-winning film ''SlamNation'', which follows the fierce competition at the National Poetry Slam and helped popularize the dynamic genre with its release in theaters and on HBO/Cinemax and Encore/Starz. An interview with Devlin compromises an en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Power Trip (film)
''Power Trip'' is a documentary film by director Paul Devlin that describes the electricity crisis in the country of Georgia several years after the fall of the Soviet Union. In 1999, Georgia's government sold the electric utility company Telasi to AES Corporation, a multinational company headquartered in Virginia. The film follows several AES-Telasi employees as the company tries to turn a profit and ensure that power is consistently available to customers in the face of widespread corruption and failure to pay electricity bills by both commercial and residential customers. According to AES-Telasi staff, 90% of customers were not paying for electricity when the company took over, partly because salaries were extremely low and partly because during the Soviet era, the state had provided free electricity. The film shows many shocking pictures of illegal wiring that people rigged up to steal electricity from buildings with power, creating serious safety hazards and straining the pow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doki-Doki (short Film)
''Doki-Doki'' is a Japanese short film that addresses the themes of isolation and disconnectness amidst the crowded subways cars of Japan. It was released in 2003 and directed by Chris Eska. ''Doki-Doki'' had its premiere U.S. broadcast on PBS's ''Independent Lens'' series on December 21, 2004 (introduction by Susan Sarandon). Cast * Endo Yumi as Yumi * Hayato Sugano as Yosuke * Sae Takenaka as Makiko * Haruki Iwakiri as Narrator Crew *Chris Eska Chris is a short form of various names including Christopher, Christian (given name), Christian, Christina (given name), Christina, Christine (name), Christine, and Christos (given name), Christos. Chris is also used as a name in its own right, ..., Director, Writer, Editor * Megumi Kano, Producer * Aya Mitsuhashi, Producer * Yasu Tanida, Director of Photography External links Official Doki-Doki Website* Doki-Doki on Independent LensReview of Doki-Doki at eMovieCriticDoki-Doki at KCET'S 2003 Festival of Student Film 2003 films 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles Now
Los Angeles Now is a 60-minute documentary by producer/director Phillip Rodriguez. It first aired in November 2004 on PBS’s Independent Lens series. The documentary examines the ways in which changing demographics in the City of Los Angeles have created one of the largest and most diverse cities on Earth and, yet in spite of this, the entertainment industry's representations of Los Angeles remain stale, often overlooking the city's vast cultural transformation. The film also ponders the ways in which Los Angeles serves as a diagnostic for other urban centers in the United States, particularly given the influx and influence of immigrants from around the world. Several prominent Los Angeles figures are interviewed in the film, including actress Salma Hayek, philanthropist Eli Broad, author and essayist Richard Rodriguez, and Cardinal Roger Mahony. Reception Los Angeles Now was screened at the Redcat (Roy and Edna Disney/CalARts Theatre), the Harvard Film Archives, the J. Paul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Lamothe
Ron Lamothe (born 1968) is a director of documentary films and the founder of Terra Incognita Films. In 2000, Lamothe began pre-production on ''The Political Dr. Seuss'', a documentary on the life and "political" works of Theodor Geisel. In 2004, the documentary aired nationwide on PBS as the season premiere of Independent Lens. It was subsequently nominated for a George Foster Peabody Award in documentary television. Starting in 2005, Lamothe spent two years shooting and editing his next documentary, ''The Call of the Wild'', on the self-proclaimed "aesthetic voyager" Christopher McCandless, a filmmaking odyssey that took him through thirty U.S. states, two Canadian provinces, and parts of Mexico. Filmography * ''The Call of the Wild ''The Call of the Wild'' is a short adventure novel by Jack London, published in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The central character of the novel is a dog nam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nisha Ganatra
Nisha Ganatra (born June 25, 1974) is a Canadian-American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actress of Indian descent. She wrote, directed, and produced the independent comedy drama ''Chutney Popcorn'' (1999) and later directed the independent film ''Cosmopolitan'' (2003) and the romantic-comedy ''Cake'' (2005). Ganatra has directed for numerous television shows, including '' The Real World, Transparent , You Me Her, Better Things,'' and '' Brooklyn Nine-Nine''. She also directed the comedy-dramas ''Late Night'' (2019) and ''The High Note'' (2020). Ganatra served as a consulting producer on the first season of ''Transparent,'' for which she was nominated for the 2015 Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Comedy Series. Early life and education Ganatra explored her interest in film through acting and then decided to make the switch to pursue film-making as she wanted to effect cultural change. Ganatra began her film-making journey by studying at The University of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cosmopolitan (film)
''Cosmopolitan'' is a 2003 American independent film starring Roshan Seth and Carol Kane, and directed by Nisha Ganatra. The film, based on an acclaimed short story by Akhil Sharma and written by screenwriter Sabrina Dhawan (''Monsoon Wedding''), is a cross-cultural romance between a confused and lonely middle-aged Indian, who has lived in America for 20 years, and his exasperating, free-spirited blonde neighbour. The film was released theatrically in 2003. It was televised nationally in 2004 on the PBS series ''Independent Lens''. Plot In an American suburb in Northern New Jersey, conservative, middle-aged Indian immigrant Gopal, a telephone-company engineer who has taken early retirement, is celebrating Diwali in November with his wife and grown daughter. His daughter suddenly tells him that she is leaving indefinitely to teach English in Mongolia with her German boyfriend. As Gopal recovers from this shock and tries to talk her out of it, largely on the grounds that she will ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Green (filmmaker)
Sam Green is an American documentary filmmaker. His most recent projects are “live documentaries” in which he narrates a film in-person while musicians perform a live soundtrack. His 2018 project ''A Thousand Thoughts'' features a live score by the Kronos Quartet, and his 2012 project ''The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller'' featured a live score by the band Yo La Tengo. Green's 2004 film ''The Weather Underground'' was nominated for an Academy Award, included in the Whitney Biennial, and broadcast nationally on PBS. Early life Green was raised in East Lansing, Michigan, and is a graduate of East Lansing High School. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He received his master's degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied documentary with filmmaker Marlon Riggs. Career One of Green's earliest films, ''The Rainbow Man/John 3:16'', focuses on the life of Rollen Stewart, who became famous duri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Weather Underground (film)
''The Weather Underground'' is a 2002 documentary film based on the rise and fall of the American radical organization Weather Underground. Summary Using archive footage from the time as well as interviews with the Weathermen in the modern day, the film constructs a linear narrative of the organization and serves as a cautionary tale. Reception Critical response ''The Weather Underground'' has an approval rating of 91% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 58 reviews, and an average rating of 7.79/10. The website's critical consensus states, "Fascinating documentary about the militant Weathermen". Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 77 out of 100, based on 23 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Accolades The film, directed by Sam Green and Bill Siegel, won the audience choice award at the Chicago Underground Film Festival and went on to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature An academy ( Attic Gre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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