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The 2011 Independent Lens Audience Award Winner is … Two Spirits!

At film festivals, the award that often matters most to filmmakers and their subjects alike is the Audience Award. They know they've struck a chord when the audience applauds their efforts. The race for the most coveted award of the…

Two Spirits: Gender as a Spectrum, Not a Divide

Two Spirits

Two Spirits interweaves the tragic story of a mother’s loss of her son with a revealing look at the largely unknown history of a time when the world wasn’t simply divided into male and female and many Native American cultures…

A Map of Gender-Diverse Cultures

A Map of Gender-Diverse Cultures This text and the language in the corresponding map was updated in consultation with a world gender expert* in October, 2023. NOTE to teachers and students: Some school or corporate domains block custom Google Maps…

Which Film Will be This Season’s Audience Favorite? Vote Now

UPDATE: Voting for the Season 10 Audience Award is now closed. Thanks for participating! Statues, laurels, trophies, medals, plaques, certificates ... there are plenty of awards to be won in the film business, but there is only ONE Independent Lens…

Feed Your Synapses with Independent Lens to Go

Are you desperately in need of brain food this summer, when the primetime lineup leans toward Who Wants to be a National Laughingstock? and Are You Smarter Than a Single-Celled Organism? Well, even though the Independent Lens season premiere is…

(A Highly Subjective) Top 10 LGBT Documentaries for Pride Month

It's LGBT Pride Month, and with celebrations cropping up across the country, we thought we'd have a look at documentaries dealing with LGBT issues are. Here's my personal Top 10 ... feel free to suggest your own favorites in the…

LGBT Youth and Hate Crimes: The Experts Weigh In

We hosted a live chat on Facebook this week addressing the larger issues the film Two Spirits brings up for people. Hate crimes and bullying against LGBT youth has been much in the public mind of late, and issues surrounding…

Judy Shepard: Children, Hate Crimes, and a Community of Grief and Progress

Judy Shepard lost her son Matthew in 1998 in a horrific hate crime. She is now the president and co-founder of the Matthew Shepard Foundation. She sent us this blog post in anticipation of Tuesday's broadcast of Two Spirits. The…

Cathy Renna on the Legacy of Fred Martinez

Cathy Renna, managing partner at Renna Communications and former organizer and spokesperson for GLAAD, is featured in the film Two Spirits. She wrote this blog post for us. It is hard to believe that a decade has passed since the brutal…

The Spring Season is Chock Full of Indie Goodness

OK, so maybe we're not super excellent at keeping secrets, but we're excitable. Finally we can tell everyone about our whole spring schedule for Independent Lens! Check out some of the amazing new films we've got coming at you in…

Good Grief: Are Our Attitudes About Death and Dying Evolving?

By Lennlee Keep So Sorry for Your Loss When my husband died, a lot of things surprised me. Friends and family showed up en masse. People I hadn’t heard from in years reached out to give their condolences, and there…