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02/07/2010
The New York Times:P-Star Rising
...It's a good one, and a different sort of film for this consistently rewarding series.

02/07/2010
Metro: After Katrin, struggle to Find Some Loved Ones
Mine airs on the PBS series Independent Lens on Feb. 16 at 10 PM.

02/05/2010
The Jewish Advocate: The Jewish Upstart of African Studies
As the film makes clear, race remains a complicated issue in American life, no less so in academia. Yet it must be recognized that at a time when Jews themselves were trying to redefine themselves in American life, Melville Herskovits forced Americans of all races to see that blacks had a rich cultural heritage and that that too had become part of America.

02/05/2010
Chrisitan Science Monitor: Mine
Mine is a moving documentary about rescuing abandoned animals in the wake of the Katrina hurricane in New Orleans.

02/03/2010
New York Daily News: A P-Star is Born
It’s easy to assume we are about to watch the story of the rise to fame of a known artist whose name is still unfamiliar to us. But over the course of the next 83 minutes, what emerges is not the story on one girl but of a family — with much stacked against them — that manages to prevail.

02/01/2010
The Hollywod Reporter: The Oath
Excellence in cinematography awards went to Laura Poitras' The Oath, shot by Kirsten Johnson and Poitras...

02/01/2010
The Epoch Times: Documentary Review: Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness
A film about early to mid-20th century anthropology might sound dry, but [Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness] is actually quite intriguing.

02/01/2010
WHYY: Radio Times: Garbage Dreams
Garbage Dreams filmmaker Mai Iskander and T.H. Culhane, an urban planner who has worked with the Zaballeen, discuss the Independent Lens film Garbage Dreams.

01/30/2010
The Washington Post: Blacking Up Documentary Questions White Enthusiasts of Black Hip-Hop Culture
Blacking Up is careful to let people speak for themselves, as Clift efficiently segues from scene to scene: a Long Island meeting of the ossifying Al Jolson Society; a trip on a black-owned New York bus tour of hip-hop landmarks, during which white tourists are urged to wear complimentary bling.

01/29/2010
NPR.com: The Sundance Documentaries: Filmmakers Tackle Family, Politic And The Paparazzi
The gutsy television company ITVS, which has embraced alternative distribution models for years, had three documentaries at Sundance this year. I wasn't able to see Laura Poitras's The Oath, about a Yemenite family, Al Qaeda and Guantanamo Bay. My Perestroika offers fascinatingly differing accounts of how several Russian former high school classmates have fared since the collapse of the Soviet Union…

01/27/2010
WPIX Morning News (NY): P-Star Risng
Priscilla Diaz, the subject of P-Star Rising, discusses the premiere of her film and her new season on PBS's The Electric Company.

01/26/2010
Indie Wire: Last Train Home Director Lixin Fan
Filmmaker Lixin Fan may very well be one of modern-day China’s great non-fiction storytellers.

01/26/2010
The Jewish Week: Jewish Professor, Black Culture
... Vincent Brown, a historian at Harvard, had to teach a seminar on the birth of black studies. Though the discipline has flourished since the 1960s, its origins were not well known, so Brown, an iPod-generation professor, thought a documentary on the topic might help.

01/24/2010
Blisstree.com: When Two Families Love the Same Katrina Pet
Mine brings to light the serious flaws and gaps in animal rescue work during disasters.

01/24/2010
Louisville Courier-Journal (KY): Garbage Dreams an Eye-Opener for Fern Creek Students
A new documentary that explores the lives of people who make a living collecting and recycling trash around Cairo, Egypt, had some students at Fern Creek Traditional High School exploring their impact on the environment.

01/23/2010
The New York Times: Nonfiction Filmmakers Still Tell Rich Stories
The Bay Area has long been known as a center for documentary filmmaking. ... The area is home to the Independent Television Service, a major financer of documentary films, as well as some of the most respected film schools in the country.

01/23/2010
Indie Wire: In The Oath, Poitras Poignantly, Quietly Questions Her Country
A quietly disturbing, often complex portrait of an Al Qaeda insider and a Guantanamo Bay detainee, Laura Poitras’ The Oath offers a chilling preview of emerging Middle East battleground Yemen and poignantly questions American policies over the past decade in the Middle East.

01/21/2010
The Epoch Times: Documentary Review: Copyright Criminals
The music and intellectual property litigation produced by the hip hop revolution are examined in Benjamin Franzen’s Copyright Criminals, which airs this coming Tuesday as part of the current season of PBS’s Independent Lens.

01/19/2010
United Features Syndicate: Idol Musings: Copyright, Creativity and Theft
This is a smart film about a subject that transcends all aspects of popular culture from the most obscure recording to the paper you are holding in your hand.

01/19/2010
Wired: Copyright Criminals Charts Hip-Hop’s Cultural, Legal Influence
Like Doug Pray’s Scratch and Brett Gaylor’s RiP: A Remix Manifesto ... Copyright Criminals sheds further light on hip-hop’s revolutionary merge of music, technology and culture, and the legal tangles spawned by its creation. Don’t miss it.

01/19/2010
Bloomberg News Hip-Hop Theft Thrills Lawyers, Sours James Brown's Drummer
The documentary, made by Benjamin Franzen and Kembrew McLeod, features hip-hop legends such as Public Enemy’s Chuck D, producer Hank Shocklee and DJ Qbert, considered by many to be the world’s greatest deejay.

01/18/2010
Toronto Sun: PBS Doc Delves into Copyright Debate
No matter what side you’re on, it’s a fascinating debate if you’re a music fan in this era, where the idea of what copyright even means is something of a mystery to the younger generation.

01/15/2010
The New York Times: Mine
One from the heart, the documentary Mine relates yet one more wrenching, infuriating story about Hurricane Katrina and the devastation wreaked both by the storm and by human error and indifference.

01/15/2010
Inside Thirteen (NY): Q&A: Benjamin Franzen and Kembrew McLeod of Copyright Criminals
Copyright Criminals filmmakers Benjamin Franzen & Kembrew McLeod answers questions about the film.

01/15/2010
Chicago Public Radio: Garbage Dreams Reveals the Life of Egypt's Zaballeen [Audio Clip]
Chicago Public Radio features the Independent Lens film Garbage Dreams and the Community Cinema Screening at the Chicago Cultural Center. [The interview begins at 26 minutes.]

01/14/2010
Newswise: Copyright Criminals Film on Hip-Hop Sampling Airs Jan. 19 on PBS
The film traces hip-hop's 30-plus-year evolution from an under-the-radar sub culture to a multibillion-dollar industry.

01/13/2010
USA Today: Jamie Lee Curtis Digs into PBS' Dirt!
Even for someone who cares about the environment, Curtis says Dirt! [The Movie] was an education. "I was as astonished as you will be when you see the film, about the earth being alive."

01/13/2010
The Kojo Nnamdi Show: Garbage Dreams [Audio Interview]
Garbage Dreams filmmaker Mai Iskander discusses the culture of Egypt's "Zabbaleen" -- garbage people -- and how their eco-friendly craft is being threatened by modern waste management companies from foreign lands.

01/12/2010
South Coast Today (MA): Tune In Tonight
When the group performs Bob Dylan's "Forever Young" for a prison audience, quite a few inmates choke up. But you don't have to be doing hard time to be softhearted about this delightful and inspiring film. I rarely use the word "poignant" in my reviews. This film is poignant.

01/12/2010
TV EYE: New Tricks for Old Voices
A charming inspiring and tuneful look at an elderly chorus in Northampton, Mass., taking on songs from the Clash to James Brown is the moving and ultimately uplifting Young@Heart on Independent Lens.

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