“Independent Lens” schedule includes two possible Oscar nominees
Independent Lens has unveiled its winter/spring 2012 season, which includes two films on the “short-list” for Academy Award nominations: Hell and Back Again, about the human costs of war, and We Were Here, a look at the early days of the AIDS crisis in San Francisco. Here’s a full rundown of the 2012 offerings, to be hosted by actress Mary Louise Parker. This season, the program moves to Thursday nights on most PBS member stations.
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