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Spring Season Trailer 2024 | Coming to Independent Lens
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We’re blooming this spring with a lineup of docs, including Matter of Mind: My Parkinson's, Space: The Longest Goodbye, One With The Whale, and The Tuba Thieves. Stream Independent Lens with the PBS App.
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A Conversation with Rashaad Newsome
Our interview with interdisciplinary artist Rashaad Newsome, co-director and protagonist of Assembly and creator of Being the Digital Griot.Providing Support for PBS.org
Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship[clock ticking] - Times are changing.
- Every nut and bolt, you know its breaking point.
But the humans have not been quantified.
- I'm here to serve.
I'm here to learn, here to grow.
And so whatever happens, just remember that.
- I was diagnosed with Parkinson's at 39.
- You never know what's going to happen if you don't give up.
- Holding it together is more exhausting than the disease itself.
- You might live.
- You have to hunt.
- If you don't do subsistence activities, you die.
- It connects us to our past.
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