{"id":19496,"date":"2020-01-02T11:25:27","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T19:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=19496"},"modified":"2020-01-10T09:55:35","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T17:55:35","slug":"coming-to-independent-lens-our-late-winter-early-spring-20-slate-will-grab-you","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/blog\/coming-to-independent-lens-our-late-winter-early-spring-20-slate-will-grab-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming to Independent Lens: Our Winter &#8217;20 Slate Will Grab You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning in January 2020, unforgettable and acclaimed new stories are coming to\u00a0<em>Independent Lens<\/em> on PBS, America&#8217;s home for documentaries. From the story of a Somali family in Minnesota torn apart by a son&#8217;s fateful decision, to Chicago for a look at one of political activism&#8217;s most unlikely alliances as well as a shocking look at that city&#8217;s devastating 1995 heatwave, and the South for the story of religion and science clashing over a faith-based amusement park, and attempts to reconcile the history of lynching in America, and then to China for the emotional stories of so-called &#8220;leftover women&#8221; and for the aftershocks of that country&#8217;s &#8220;One Child&#8221; policy<em>, <\/em>t<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hese new documentaries take viewers into the heart of different <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">communities around the world to explore the hot-button issues of our time.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOver the next few months, we\u2019ll continue exploring issues facing communities in the U.S. and all over the world, to help audiences better understand the beliefs and ideals that unite and divide us,\u201d said <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Independent Lens<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Executive Producer <strong>Lois Vossen<\/strong>. \u201cOur job as ambassadors of public media at <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Independent Lens<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is to spark conversations on issues that are often tough to talk about, but are urgent and essential to the growth of our culture.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here are the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/films\/\">documentaries<\/a> coming to <em>Independent Lens<\/em> <strong>January through March<\/strong>, 2020:<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19526\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/HOQNN0J-asset-mezzanine-16x9-TbkK4t2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/HOQNN0J-asset-mezzanine-16x9-TbkK4t2.png 1920w, https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/HOQNN0J-asset-mezzanine-16x9-TbkK4t2-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/HOQNN0J-asset-mezzanine-16x9-TbkK4t2-1200x675.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/films\/accept-the-call\/\"><em>Accept the Call<\/em><\/a> (Jan. 20):<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0An anguished Somali father in Minnesota seeks to understand what led his American son to attempt to join the Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria. An intimate story of a father and son attempting to mend their relationship after breaking each other\u2019s hearts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18673\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/first-rainbow-coalition-tempsig.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/first-rainbow-coalition-tempsig.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/first-rainbow-coalition-tempsig-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/first-rainbow-coalition-tempsig-1200x793.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/films\/the-first-rainbow-coalition\/\"><em>The First Rainbow Coalition<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Jan. 27):\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 1969, the Chicago Black Panther Party began to form alliances across lines of race and ethnicity with other community-based movements in the city, including the Latino group the Young Lords Organization and the southern whites of the Young Patriots organization. Banding together in one of the most segregated cities in postwar America to collectively confront issues such as police brutality and substandard housing, they called themselves the Rainbow Coalition.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19586\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/COOKED_Newsletter_1280x720.jpg\" alt=\"COOKED key art\" width=\"1279\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/COOKED_Newsletter_1280x720.jpg 1279w, https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/COOKED_Newsletter_1280x720-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/COOKED_Newsletter_1280x720-1200x676.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1279px) 100vw, 1279px\" \/>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/films\/cooked-survival-by-zip-code\/\"><em>Cooked: Survival by Zipcode<\/em><\/a> (Feb. 3):<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The repercussions from the little-known 1995 Chicago heatwave are explored in this documentary<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">from its effects on the city&#8217;s entrenched poverty, to its economic and social isolation, and racism.\u00a0Was this a one-time tragedy, or an appalling trend?<\/span><\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/films\/leftover-women\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-19551 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/leftover-women-new-sig.jpg\" alt=\"Leftover Women's Xu Min looks forlorn while eating with her parents\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1082\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/leftover-women-new-sig.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/leftover-women-new-sig-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/leftover-women-new-sig-1200x676.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/films\/leftover-women\/\"><em>Leftover Women<\/em><\/a> (Feb. 10)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0follows three successful Chinese women &#8212; Qiu Hua Mei, a 34-year-old lawyer; Xu Min, 28, who works in public radio; and Gai Qi, 36, an assistant college professor in Beijing &#8212; who, despite thriving careers, are still labeled &#8220;leftover women,&#8221; or <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sheng nu,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a derogatory term used in China to describe educated, professional women in their mid-20s and &#8217;30s who are not married. The film &#8220;remind viewers that the fight for equality is not a problem confined to one country or community, but rather the world&#8221; (<em>Film Inquiry<\/em>).<\/span><\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19262\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/We_Believe_in_Dinosaurs_Pubstills20-Cropped.jpg\" alt=\"man holding ape head replica\" width=\"1536\" height=\"864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/We_Believe_in_Dinosaurs_Pubstills20-Cropped.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/We_Believe_in_Dinosaurs_Pubstills20-Cropped-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/We_Believe_in_Dinosaurs_Pubstills20-Cropped-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/films\/we-believe-in-dinosaurs\/\"><em>We Believe in Dinosaurs<\/em><\/a> (Feb. 17):\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Bible and science collide amid the battleground of a Kentucky creationism museum and a $120 million Noah\u2019s Ark-inspired theme park in this documentary. The film is &#8220;often amusing, but never condescending towards either Ark proponents or their equally vocal opponents,&#8221; says\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2019\/film\/reviews\/we-believe-in-dinosaurs-review-1203194204\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Variety<\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19589\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/claudia-swingset-always-in-season.jpg\" alt=\"Claudia, at swingset, from Always in Season\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/claudia-swingset-always-in-season.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/claudia-swingset-always-in-season-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/claudia-swingset-always-in-season-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/films\/always-in-season\/\"><em><strong>Always in Season<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (<strong>Feb. 24<\/strong>):\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A recipient of the Sundance Special Jury Award for Moral Urgency, <\/span><em><b>Always in Season\u00a0<\/b><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">follows the tragedy of African American teenager Lennon Lacy, who in August 2014, was found hanging from a swing set in Bladenboro, North Carolina. His death was ruled a suicide by law enforcement, but Lennon\u2019s mother, Claudia, her family and many others believe Lennon was lynched. The film chronicles Claudia&#8217;s quest to learn the truth and takes a closer look at the lingering impact of more than a century of lynching African-Americans, connecting this form of historic terrorism to racial violence today.<\/span><\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-18697 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/one-child-nation-nanfufamily-sig.jpg\" alt=\"Nanfu Wang as an infant with her parents, from One Child Nation\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/one-child-nation-nanfufamily-sig.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/one-child-nation-nanfufamily-sig-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/one-child-nation-nanfufamily-sig-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/films\/one-child-nation\/\"><em><strong>One Child Nation<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (<strong>March 30<\/strong>):\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Making its broadcast television debut, Nanfu Wang\u2019s <\/span><em><b>One Child Nation<\/b><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> explores the devastating impacts of China\u2019s one-child policy from both a personal and wider perspective. The film<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has been a steady presence on the awards circuit since taking home the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, garnering a nomination for the IDA Award for Best Documentary Feature and five Critics Choice Documentary Awards nominations, among many others.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Look for the rest of this amazing season announced in this space soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning in January 2020, unforgettable and acclaimed new stories are coming to\u00a0Independent Lens on PBS, America&#8217;s home for documentaries. 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