3/20/13 Wonder Women!to Air on PBS’ Independent LensWatching this movie made me feel awesome about being a female superhero fan and it also made me aware of the vast community out there that feels the same. — Wired.com |
3/14/13 SXSW ’13: Independent Lens, Magnolia nab Muscle Shoals
PBS strand Independent Lens picked up the U.S. TV rights and distributor Films We Like took all Canadian rights for the film, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January. The deals were brokered on behalf of the filmmakers by Josh Braun, Dan Braun and David Koh of Submarine. — Realscreen |
3/13/13 A beauty pageant Gloria Steinem would loveWomen's History month is just the right time to watch, Miss Navajo, a documentary that premiered at Sundance in 2007 and was broadcast on PBS the same year. The title alone may turn people away if you are, like me, not a big fan of beauty pageants but Miss Navajo is the kind of pageant that perhaps even Gloria Steinem could get behind. — Chicago Sun-Times |
3/12/13 Story Of An Egg Film Explains What 'Cage-Free,' 'Free-Range' Actually Mean Cage-free eggs are pretty commonplace on supermarket shelves. But if you imagine they must come from a bunch of chickens roaming around the farmyard politely clucking, you're sadly mistaken. — Huffington Post |
3/11/13 Game Strives for Real-World ChangeNicholas Kristof – of the multiple Pulitzer Prizes and best-selling books and New York Times column – is bringing his storytelling to a new medium: games. — Yahoo News |
2/25/13 He May Have Nothing to Hide, but He’s Always Under WatchThe Chinese conceptual artist, sculptor, photographer and filmmaker Ai Weiwei has a company that bears the tongue-in-cheek name Fake Design, but the challenges he faces are all too real. — New York Times |
2/23/13 Can a Film About Rape in the Military Win an Oscar?
One of the nominees for Best Documentary in Sunday night’s Academy Awards is The Invisible War, about sexual assault in the military. It is a wrenching film; woman after woman tells about being attacked by a fellow-soldier, sailor, or Marine, and then being betrayed, more profoundly, by the her officers and by military as an institution. — Newyorker |
2/17/13 Searching for Bootstraps for Pulling UpThe Powerbroker: Whitney Young’s Fight for Civil Rights, Monday on PBS’s “Independent Lens,” revisits the contributions of a less-celebrated member, Whitney M. Young Jr. — New York Times |
2/15/13 Whitney Young Documentary to Debut on PBSA new film takes a look at the civil rights influencer who shook up the corporate world, while drawing the ire of the Black Power movement — Ebony |
2/14/13 NPR Boardrooms And Beyond: Remembering Civil Rights Power Broker Whitney YoungWhitney Young spent most of his in the civil rights movement, but he focused on changing business as much as changing law. As head of the National Urban League, he had the ear of some of the nation's most powerful leaders. Host Michel Martin speaks with Young's niece, filmmaker Bonnie Boswell, who chronicles her uncle's story in the documentary, The Power Broker. — NPR |

