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The Audience Award
 What is the Audience Award?
What is the Audience Award? At film festivals, the award that indies covet the most is the Audience Award. After all, these non-conventional filmmakers are telling stories not for fame or fortune, but to enlighten and entertain you—the audience.

After each Independent Lens television broadcast, the audience decides how a film measures up. At the end of each season, we tally the votes and honor one special film.

Announcing the 2009 Independent Lens Audience Award Winner!


ADJUST YOUR COLOR: The Truth of Petey Greene
by Loren Mendell

He was a drug addict, a convicted felon, a hustler and a shock jock. Petey Greene gave voice to the unheard—speaking truth to power on his raw and uncensored TV and radio programs. His explosive language and brash style shocked the world as he battled both the system and his own demons becoming a leading activist during some of the most tumultuous years in recent history.

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Read what fans have to say:

You have ignited my soul with such an awe-inspiring documentary. Petey Greene jumps off the screen and into your heart.

I was captivated instantly by Petey's direct style...his anger seems to have been directed not to blame others, but to shed light on the injustices of his day.

RIVETING! He exemplified the ultimate social change agent, in a time when people had begun to tune out…

Wow, great job! This is one superb documentary!

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Past Audience Award Winners

With the 2008 pick NA KAMALEI: The Men of Hula, viewers were entertained and inspired by the only all-male hula school in Hawaii.

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A boy wearing a hard hat, his face grimy with dust from the mines. He sits in front of a pickaxe handle. 2006’s winner, THE DEVIL’S MINER, captivated viewers with the gripping story of 14-year-old Basilio and his 12-year-old brother working in the deadly Bolivian silver mines to earn enough money to attend school.

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 A man sitting in a wheelchair holding a microphone and looking into the distance with the large white dome of the U.S. Capitol Building looming behind him. In 2005, audiences were moved by ON A ROLL, the story of Greg Smith, who, born with muscular dystrophy, has turned his physical challenges into his greatest strengths.

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An older man dressed in a tuxedo leans against a dressing room counter and looks at his reflection. The story of one of the most distinctive vocalists of our time captured viewers’ hearts in 2004. JIMMY SCOTT: If You Only Knew was an overwhelming audience favorite.

Visit JIMMY SCOTT: If You Only Knew >>

 A woman dressed in an orange wetsuit rides a wave on a surfboard. Another inspirational story made the top of the charts in 2003. HEART OF THE SEA tells the story of Hawaiian surf pioneer Rell “Kapolioka'ehukai” Sunn.

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