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Independent Lens is broadcast on most PBS stations on Tuesdays at 10:00 p.m.
Please check the broadcast schedule. Dates and times may vary.
Drama
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Trapped in the middle of the desert on their way to the Grand Canyon, a Sikh American family has only one hope: the remote highway and the occasional car that drives by. AMERICAN MADE confronts issues of tradition, faith, conformity and sacrifice after the family's youngest son accuses his turban-clad orthodox father of looking like a terrorist while stranded on a remote desert road.
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BROTHER TO BROTHER
by Rodney Evans
Co-presentation with the National Black Programming Consortium
June 14, 2005
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After being rejected by his family, Perry (Anthony Mackie), a struggling young artist, befriends an elderly stranger—Bruce Nugent (Roger Robinson), the black gay writer who co-founded the revolutionary journal Fire!! Through Nugent’s memories, Perry discovers the legacies of the gay and lesbian subcultures within the Harlem Renaissance.
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COSMOPOLITAN
by Jen Small, Jason Orans, Brian Devine and Nisha Ganatra
Co-presented by KTEH/San Jose and the Center for Asian American Media
June 1, 2004
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When his wife and daughter abandon him, East Indian immigrant Gopal (Roshan Seth) reinvents himself as an all-American bachelor. With women’s magazines as his guide, he pursues Mrs. Shaw (Carol Kane), the divorcée next door. But he finds there’s more to love than the pages of Cosmo would suggest. A romantic comedy directed by Nisha Ganatra (Chutney Popcorn) and written by Sabrina Dhawan (Monsoon Wedding).
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In suburban Tokyo, Yumi finds herself waiting every day with the same group of strangers for the same seats on the same train. Who are these fellow commuters? Where do they live? What are they like? One day, she decides to find out.
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by Michael Downing
December 21, 2004
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When factory worker Ed is confronted by a co-worker’s pressing question over lunch, he begins to question his own decisions and his current life as a husband, father and suburbanite.
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FISHBOWL
by Kayo Hatta, Linda Barry and Eleanor Nakama-Mitsunaga
Co-presentation with PBS Hawaii and Center for Asian American Media
May 9, 2006
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In the sleepy plantation town of Hilo, Hawaii, an 11-year-old named Lovey is trying to be anything but herself. In this dramatic short adapted from Lois-Ann Yamanaka's Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers, Lovey's comical—and often painful—quest culminates in one fateful Halloween night.
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Exploring the Latino experience through the prism of dreams, memories and reality, FOTO-NOVELAS consists of two half-hour dramas: “Junkyard Saints,” a spiritual thriller set in a South Texas automotive graveyard; and “Broken Sky,” a fictionalized account based on the real-life 1948 plane crash that killed 28 Mexicans in Fresno, California.
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While working on his latest screenplay in Beijing, Hui Rao is suffering from serious writer's block and begins to live the life of the character he is trying to create. The character, Lin Hao, is running from his past and leads Rao to a mysterious village in northern China where the character's history and motivations come into question.
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It is 1941. In a moving performance by actress Catherine Samie, a Russian Jewish woman living in a Ukrainian city seized by the Germans writes her son a final letter. She knows that all the Jews will be killed within days. In this last letter, she reviews her life and faces her death, and in doing so, she reveals courage, dignity, fear and a fierce love of her son.
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SHORT STACK 2006 features the Grand Prize winner of the first Independent Lens Online Shorts Festival (TBA) and the animated comedy “The Zit,” in which a boy on his way to the school dance is forced to deal with his first pimple. In “My Life Disoriented,” teenage sisters struggle to find acceptance after their father uproots the family and relocates them to a town where they are among only a handful of Asian Americans.
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