It was a big night for Independent Lens. We were thrilled to be honored with four News and Documentary Emmy® Awards at a ceremony held on Tuesday, September 24 in New York City. All told, Independent Lens received a total of 12 nominations, the most of any PBS series. PBS led all networks with a total …
Independent Lens Wins Two 2018 News & Documentary Emmys: TOWER and Forever Pure
The News & Documentary Emmy Awards were presented on Monday, October 1, 2018, in a ceremony at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall in New York City, an event attended by more than 1,000 television and news media industry executives, news and documentary producers and journalists. Independent Lens was pleased to learn that …
Independent Lens Wins Four 2017 News and Documentary Emmys
Last night, the 38th annual News and Documentary Emmy® Awards were held at the Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall in New York City, and Independent Lens was thrilled to learn four of our films took home the Emmy® statuette. Congratulations to the winning films: In Football We Trust, Best of Enemies, The Armor …
The Homestretch Wins 2016 News and Doc Emmy Award
We were pleased to learn that The Homestretch took home a News and Documentary Emmy® Award for Outstanding Business and Economic Reporting, in the News & Doc Emmy Awards ceremony held at New York City’s Lincoln Center presented by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) on September 21. In addition, filmmaker Stanley Nelson, who directed …
Independent Lens Wins Two News & Documentary Emmys
Last night, the News & Documentary Emmy® Awards ceremony was held at Geffen Hall in New York City, and we were excited to learn that two Independent Lens films came away with Emmys. Congratulations to not only the winning filmmakers and all the Independent Lens films that were nominated, but to the full group of outstanding documentaries and …
Independent Lens Nominated for 10 News & Doc Emmys
On the heels of the Primetime Emmy Award nomination for The Great Invisible, Independent Lens learned today that our series received 10 (count ’em, ten!) nominations for the 36th annual News & Doc Emmys, including three nominations for The Trials of Muhammad Ali and two for Bully, both films garnering a nom for Best Documentary. All told, PBS nabbed an Emmy-leading 57 …
The Great Invisible Nominated for 2015 Emmy Award
We were excited to learn today that the Independent Lens film The Great Invisible, which aired on PBS in April, was just nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit for Documentary Filmmaking. Kudos to director Margaret Brown and her whole team for the honor. The Hollywood Reporter called The Great Invisible “a powerful documentary that reminds …
Independent Lens Wins 3 News & Documentary Emmy Awards
Independent Lens films The Invisible War and Detropia won three 2014 News & Documentary Emmy Awards at the 35th annual event, for Editing, Investigative Journalism, and Best Documentary. Read on for more, including a statement from Invisible War filmmakers.
Independent Lens Nominated for 10 News & Doc Emmys
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced this year’s nominees for the 35th annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards for 2013 programming, and we’re proud to say that seven Independent Lens documentaries were nominated in 10 Emmy categories.
Independent Lens Short Documentary Nominated for Emmy
The Independent Lens short film As I Am, which was broadcast with the documentary The House I Live In, was nominated for an Emmy Award in the category “New Approaches: Documentaries.” The short is part of the series “Memphis Poverty: What Obama Didn’t See,” by filmmaker Alan Spearman [read a Q&A with the filmmaker here.] It was chosen …
2013 Emmy Nominations for Independent Lens
We were excited to learn that several Independent Lens films have been nominated for 2013 News and Documentary Emmy Awards by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Danfung Dennis’s Hell and Back Again — which had previously been nominated for an Oscar — was nominated for a Best Documentary Emmy. The film intimately traces a …
Have You Heard from Johannesburg wins Primetime Emmy Award
Independent Lens Audience Award Winner Have You Heard From Johannesburg won the Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking at the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards last night! Have You Heard From Johannesburg is an epic five-part documentary series, produced and directed by Connie Field, chronicling the unprecedented international movement of citizen activists who fought for three decades to bring …