Author Archives: Brooke Shelby Biggs

Join Our Live Social Screening of Hell and Back Again with Sgt. Harris and Danfung Dennis

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Brooke Shelby Biggs

Using our fancy new tool for hosting interactive film screenings, we’ll be offering you the chance to watch the Academy Award-nominated documentary Hell and Back Again on Tuesday, May 29 at 8pm ET / 5pm PT — following its Monday … Continue reading →

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Oscar Nominee Hell and Back Again Born of a Combat Photographer’s Frustrations

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Brooke Shelby Biggs

Since 2006, photojournalist Danfung Dennis has covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. His still photographs have been published in Newsweek, TIME, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, Le Figaro Magazine, Financial Times Magazine, Mother … Continue reading →

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Documenting the Children Left Behind by American Soldiers in the Philippines

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Brooke Shelby Biggs

We caught up with Emma Rossi Landi and Alberto Vendemmiati, co-producers and directors of Left by the Ship, which premieres on Independent Lens Thursday, May 24 at 10 PM (check local listings). They talk us through what brought them to … Continue reading →

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Book Club Featuring Eliminated Mexican American Studies Texts Draws Fire in Tucson

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Brooke Shelby Biggs

Tonight is premiere night for Precious Knowledge, a film about the last years of the successful but controversial Mexican American Studies program in Tucson, Arizona’s public schools. (Check your local listings here for when it airs on your local PBS … Continue reading →

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Precious Knowledge Director on the Front Lines of Arizona’s Ethnic Studies Wars

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Brooke Shelby Biggs

In January, the Tucson Unified School District ended its highly successful Mexican American Studies program after state officials threatened to withhold funding from schools that taught ethnic history and literature in a manner they contended encouraged race resentment and revolution … Continue reading →

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Update! See What Has Become of the Nomad Family Portrayed in Summer Pasture

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Brooke Shelby Biggs

Locho, Yama, and Pale Chubby Baby … where are they now? Lynn True, co-director of Summer Pasture, provided us with these fantastic video updates from the Tibetan plateau in which we discover what has happened to the nomad family in … Continue reading →

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This Just In: Next Season, We’re Moving to Monday Nights on PBS!

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Brooke Shelby Biggs

by Lois Vossen, Independent Lens Senior Series Producer & Vice President, ITVS We are pleased to report that PBS, ITVS, and POV have emerged from months of conversation to confirm a new Monday nights at 10 PM broadcast slot for … Continue reading →

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Finding a Familiar Humanity Half a World Away

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Brooke Shelby Biggs

The filmmaking juggernaut of Lynn True, Nelson Walker, and Tsering Perlo dropped by the Independent Lens offices in between trips to Tibet to visit with Locho and Yama, the couple at the heart of their documentary Summer Pasture, which premieres … Continue reading →

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Video Extras and Updates About the Ponces of Circo

Posted on May 4, 2012 by Brooke Shelby Biggs

If you’ve seen Circo, you might be wondering whatever happened to Tino and his wife, Ivonne after she left, and of course the children, the extended family, and the circus itself. We certainly wanted to know what had happened to … Continue reading →

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Deep Inside Mexico, Filmmaker Finds Remnants of a Rich but Endangered Culture

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Brooke Shelby Biggs

Aaron Schock wanted to make a documentary about Mexico that wasn’t about immigration, for a change. While scouting for subjects in the rural communities off the beaten path, he happened upon a traveling circus, and the rest is, well, Circo. … Continue reading →

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