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Sutherland's latest film is Kind Hearted Woman, which is airing on two parts on PBS, presented by Frontline in partnership with Independent Lens.

— Indie Wire

David Sutherland’s critically acclaimed documentaries are known for their depth of intimacy and long-form commitment to the filmmaking process, often taking three years or more to capture their subjects’ daily lives, and battles, in revealing detail.

— Boston Globe

Huffingtonpost Live Video: Frontline spent three years with Robin Poor Bear, an Ogala Sioux woman struggling to heal from child sexual abuse and alcoholism in order to protect her own children.

— Huffington Post

PBS documentary showcases the troubles and triumphs of a Kind Hearted Minnesotan.

— Star Tribune

When Robin Poor Bear was in her 20s, she asked for a Native American name. The Road Man, or spiritual leader, came up with Kind Hearted Woman.

— ABC

Juxtaposed against TV’s popular versions of “reality” as well as the medium’s increasingly fuzzy definition of “news,” it’s worth taking a look at two programs premiering early next month: David Sutherland’s Kind Hearted Woman, a 4 hour, 40-minute documentary airing on PBS under the banners of “Frontline” and Independent Lens; and “Vice,” a half-hour HBO news program from international hot spots, produced by Bill Maher.

— Variety

The documentary, which premieres April 15 on the PBS Independent Lens series, will be screened Thursday evening at KPCC’s Crawford Family Forum in Pasadena, followed by a panel discussion co-hosted by Community Cinema.

— LA Times

The documentary film in question is director David Sutherland's Kind Hearted Woman, a co-production of Independent Lens and Frontline that is airing April 1 and 2 on PBS.

— Documentary.org

Robin Charboneau is on the road to recovery – and she knows it’s going to be a long journey.

— Albuquerque Journal

It took a powerful, disturbing dream from which she awoke sobbing to convince Robin Charboneau, an Oglala Sioux and member of North Dakota’s Spirit Lake tribe, that “I needed to open my mouth, and I needed to speak.” So she let the documentary filmmaker David Sutherland follow her for more than three years as she struggled to raise her family as a single mother while confronting her alcoholism and the scars of being sexually abused as a child.

— New York Times