Category Archives: Independent Film

Wonder Women! Inspires Wonder City Game

Posted on May 21, 2013 by Independent Lens

Originally posted on Beyond the Box. Wonder City has been developed as companion game to the PBS documentary feature, Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines. While the film encourages young audiences to explore pop cultural history as a means of thinking … Continue reading →

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Director Marco Williams on the Making of The Undocumented

Posted on April 25, 2013 by Independent Lens

Since 1998, more than two thousand dead bodies have been found in Arizona’s Sonora Desert — the remains of “border crossers” who perished en route to the United States from Mexico. In true cinéma vérité style, The Undocumented (premiering Monday, April 29, 2013 … Continue reading →

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Looking for a Sci-Fi Fix? Don’t Panic! FUTURESTATES Season 4 Premieres Today

Posted on April 24, 2013 by Independent Lens

Starting today, the fourth season of FUTURESTATES — public media’s #1 online series of independently-produced, socially conscious, science fiction short films — debuts a new futuristic episode from seven cutting-edge indie filmmakers every Wednesday, kicking off with today’s Elliot King is Third. … Continue reading →

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Director Jon Shenk on His Love for the Maldives, Public Television, and Pizza

Posted on April 18, 2013 by Independent Lens

A world of change has happened since Jon Shenk filmed The Island President (airing April 22 on Independent Lens). After Shenk released the documentary in 2012, Maldivian leader Mohamed Nasheed was forced to resign and arrested twice on the campaign … Continue reading →

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What’s YOUR Superpower?

Posted on April 12, 2013 by Rebecca Huval

We’re all Wonder Women (or Men) inside, each with our own superpower. But sometimes, we daydream about being more than just a super-dad, super-banjo-strummer, or super-feminist. We want to levitate! Get the bad guys! Or maybe just become invisible to … Continue reading →

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Filmmaker Kristy Guevara-Flanagan on the Making of Wonder Women!

Posted on April 11, 2013 by Independent Lens

Directed by Kristy Guevara-Flanagan and produced by Kelcey Edwards, Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines airs Monday, April 15 at 10pm (check local listings). We recently spoke with Kristy Guevara-Flanagan about her experiences making the film, a fun and … Continue reading →

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As I Am Filmmaker Alan Spearman Makes Moving Portraits in South Memphis

Posted on April 8, 2013 by Rachel Aloy

We sat down with Emmy award winning filmmaker Alan Spearman about his experiences in making the short film, As I Am. Continue reading →

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Filmmaker David Sutherland on Making Kind Hearted Woman

Posted on March 28, 2013 by Independent Lens

We sat down with acclaimed filmmaker David Sutherland to talk with him about his unforgettable portrait of Robin Charboneau, a 32-year-old divorced single mother and Oglala Sioux woman living on North Dakota’s Spirit Lake Reservation. His film, Kind Hearted Woman — a special … Continue reading →

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PBS Correspondent Goes Rogue at SXSW … Hilarity Ensues

Posted on March 15, 2013 by Kaleigh Gaynor

On Sunday, another South by Southwest (SXSW) will close its doors on the thousands of festival-goers, wrapping up nine full days of original music, independent films, and emerging technologies. With such a wide and varied audience, how can those of … Continue reading →

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Adrian Baker on Animating Native American Oral History

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Rebecca Huval

Sometimes, the shameful chapters of our past deserve to be excavated through an animated short, the form du jour for oral history projects such as StoryCorps. From the PBS Online Film Festival, the short documentary Injunuity: Buried features the story of a Native American … Continue reading →

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