{"id":2655,"date":"2013-10-24T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T16:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/blog\/?p=4839"},"modified":"2013-10-25T14:02:29","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T21:02:29","slug":"independent-lens-films-up-for-gotham-audience-award","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/blog\/independent-lens-films-up-for-gotham-audience-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Gotham Awards: Independent Lens Films Nominated for Best Doc and for Audience Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indiepixfilms.com\/image\/237228\" width=\"532\" height=\"112\" \/>\n<p>Three <em>Independent Lens<\/em> films, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/dont-stop-believin\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Don&#8217;t Stop Believin&#8217;: Everyman&#8217;s Journey<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.itvs.org\/films\/blood-brother\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Blood Brother<\/em><\/a> (which will air on PBS in January), and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/new-black\/\" target=\"_blank\">The New Black<\/a><\/em> (airing next June), are all up for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiepixfilms.com\/videocontest\/IFP-AUDIENCE\" target=\"_blank\">IFP Gotham Audience Awards<\/a>, which &#8220;celebrates audience award winners from across the Top 50 US and Canadian film festivals.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiepixfilms.com\/videocontest\/IFP-AUDIENCE\" target=\"_blank\">Voting is open now<\/a> and you can vote for all three IL films as the contest allows one to select up to five films in the first round. Meanwhile, Jason Osder&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itvs.org\/films\/let-the-fire-burn\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Let the Fire Burn<\/em><\/a> (airs on\u00a0<em>Independent Lens<\/em> <strong>May 12, 2014<\/strong>) was just given the honor of a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifp.org\/press\/nominees-announced-for-the-23rd-annual-gotham-independent-film-awards-by-ifp\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gotham nomination<\/a>\u00a0for Best Documentary.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>Blood Brother<\/em> is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodbrotherfilm.com\/showtimes\/\" target=\"_blank\">opening theatrically<\/a> this week (October 25) and beyond, giving you an opportunity to see it once, vote, and then see it again on PBS in January. \u00a0You can find out more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/new-black\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The New Black<\/em> <\/a>both on our site and on the film&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newblackfilm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">official site<\/a>. And <em>Don&#8217;t Stop Believin&#8217;<\/em> aired on PBS September 30, and is available in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everymansjourney.com\/see-the-film.html\" target=\"_blank\">other ways<\/a> as well, so hopefully you&#8217;ve seen that one, too.<\/p>\n<p><em>Let the Fire Burn<\/em>, which will air the day before the May 13 anniversary of the tragic raid in Philadelphia on MOVE headquarters, was named\u00a0an <em>L.A. Times<\/em> critic&#8217;s pick by Kenneth Turan and &#8220;a stunning film&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grantland.com\/blog\/hollywood-prospectus\/post\/_\/id\/90096\/the-totally-unnecessary-extremely-interesting-carrie-remake\" target=\"_blank\">Grantland<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Independent Lens films, Don&#8217;t Stop Believin&#8217;: Everyman&#8217;s Journey,\u00a0Blood Brother (which will air on PBS in January), and The New Black (airing next June), are all up for IFP Gotham Audience Awards, which &#8220;celebrates audience award winners from across the Top 50 US and Canadian film festivals.&#8221; Voting is open now and you can vote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1237,818],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-2655","blog","type-blog","status-publish","hentry","tag-awards","tag-independent-film"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gotham Awards: Independent Lens Films Nominated for Best Doc and for Audience Award - Independent Lens<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"3 Independent Lens films -- Don&#039;t Stop Believin&#039;, Blood Brother, and The New Black -- are up for IFP Gotham Audience Awards as festival favorites. 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