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July, 10, 2018

Wildland

Independent Lens

“Fighting fire is just long hours of hard, boring work punctuated by moments of sheer terror." Filmed during two recent wildfire seasons, Wildland is a sweeping yet deeply personal account of a firefighting crew as they struggle with fear, loyalty,…

April, 21, 2017

Earth Day Watch List: 17 Films About Sustainability and Climate Change

Jennie Z. Rose in Lists

We count on indie filmmakers to sniff out the conspicuous absences in mainstream media. Journalist and investigative reporter Amy Goodman once said, "The role of independent media is to go to where the silence is." To environmentalists and scientists, the…

April, 20, 2017

Growing Industry: Why Weed Seeds Are Giving Way to Pot Clones

Independent Lens in Beyond the Films

In the Independent Lens doc SEED: The Untold Story, biodiversity evangelists travel the globe in search of as many seed varieties as they can bank in their vaults before they disappear. As we learn in the film, 94% of agricultural…

April, 22, 2013

The Island President

Independent Lens

Jon Shenk’s The Island President tells the story of former president Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, a man confronting a problem greater than any other world leader has ever faced—the survival of his country and everyone in it. After bringing…